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, its meal offering, and its drink offering.
- KJV And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.
- NKJV also one kid of the goats 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, 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 fourth day, besides the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering.
Overview
The daily sin offering persisted, keeping the need for atonement before the people throughout the feast. It supplemented the ongoing continual offering. These repeated sin offerings foreshadow Christ, whose one sacrifice perfectly atones for sin.
Cross-references & the web
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- John 8:31So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples.
- Heb 13:15Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name.
- Gal 2:5We did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.
- Heb 10:39But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.
- Num 29:11Include one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the sin offering of atonement and the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offerings.
- Gal 6:9Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
- 2 Th 3:13But as for you, brothers, do not grow weary in well-doing.
- Heb 3:14We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first.
- Rom 2:7To those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life.
- Acts 13:43After the synagogue was dismissed, many of the Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who spoke to them and urged them to continue in the grace of God.
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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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