‘On the second day present twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs in their first year without blemish,
Parallel translations
- WEB “‘On the second day you shall offer twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
- KJV And on the second day ye shall offer twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:
- BSB On the second day you are to present twelve young bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old, all unblemished,
- NASB ‘Then on the second day: twelve bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs one year old without defect;
- NLT “On the second day of this seven-day festival, sacrifice twelve young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all with no defects.
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Quick answer
On the second day of Tabernacles Israel offered twelve bulls, two rams, and fourteen flawless lambs, beginning a daily decrease in bulls.
Overview
The second day's offering reduced the bulls from thirteen to twelve, starting a descending pattern unique to this feast. The careful, lavish sacrifices continued the week's overflowing worship while requiring flawless animals. Some see the diminishing total of seventy bulls across the feast as embracing the nations; what is clear is that such abundant worship anticipates the joy and provision found fully in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Num 29:20–40“‘On the third day eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
- Num 29:13You shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old; all without defect;
- Lev 23:36Seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. It is a solemn assembly; you shall do no regular work.
- Jer 7:22–23For I didn’t speak to your fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
- Isa 1:11“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.
- Hos 6:6For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
- Heb 9:3–14After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,
- Heb 8:13In that he says, “A new covenant”, he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.
- Ps 50:8–9I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
- Ps 69:31It will please Yahweh better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs.
- Ps 51:16–17For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.
- Ps 40:6Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.
- Rom 12:1Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
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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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