The one lamb you shall offer in the morning, the other lamb you shall offer in the evening,
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall offer the one lamb in the morning, and you shall offer the other lamb at evening;
- KJV The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and the other lamb shalt thou offer at even;
- BSB Offer one lamb in the morning and the other at twilight,
- NASB You shall offer the one lamb in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at twilight;
- NLT Sacrifice one lamb in the morning and the other in the evening.
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Quick answer
One lamb is offered in the morning and the other in the evening.
Overview
The two daily lambs frame each day with worship, morning and evening, so that Israel's whole life was bracketed by sacrifice and communion with God. This rhythm of continual offering invites God's people to begin and end every day in dependence on the atonement now perfected in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Dan 9:21yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening offering.
- Exod 12:6and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.
- 1 Kgs 18:29When midday was past, they prophesied until the time of the evening offering; but there was no voice, no answer, and nobody paid attention.
- Num 9:3On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed season — according to all its statutes, and according to all its ordinances, you shall keep it.”
- Ezra 9:4–5Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel were assembled to me, because of their trespass of the captivity; and I sat confounded until the evening offering.
- 1 Kgs 18:36At the time of the evening offering, Elijah the prophet came near, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.
- Ps 141:2Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
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In the wilderness Christ is the water from the rock, the bronze serpent lifted up that the dying might look and live (John 3:14), and the star and scepter that Balaam saw rising out of Jacob.
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