Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offering.
Parallel translations
- WEB and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering.
- KJV And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
- NKJV also one goat as a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering.
- NASB and one male goat as a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and its drink offering.
- NLT You must also sacrifice a male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its accompanying grain offering and liquid offering.
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Quick answer
A goat for a sin offering accompanied the third day, besides the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering.
Overview
The daily sin offering continued, keeping atonement at the heart of each festal day. It came in addition to the unbroken continual offering. The repeated atoning sacrifices point to Christ, who fulfills them by truly taking away sin.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Joel 1:13Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.
- Joel 2:14Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him—grain and drink offerings for the LORD your God.
- Joel 1:9Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD.
- Ps 16:4Sorrows will multiply to those who chase other gods. I will not pour out their libations of blood, or speak their names with my lips.
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