one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old for a burnt offering;
Parallel translations
- WEB one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
- KJV One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
- NKJV one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, as a burnt offering;
- NASB one bull, one ram, and one male lamb one year old, as a burnt offering;
- NLT He brought a young bull, a ram, and a one-year-old male lamb for a burnt offering,
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Quick answer
Nahshon offers a bull, ram, and lamb as a burnt offering.
Overview
The burnt offering, wholly consumed on the altar, signified complete dedication and atonement to God. Offering multiple animals expressed the seriousness and fullness of the tribe's devotion. The ascending smoke pictured a life given entirely to the Lord, fulfilled in Christ who offered Himself wholly for us.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 18
- Matt 20:28just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
- John 17:19For them I sanctify Myself, so that they too may be sanctified by the truth.
- 1 Pet 1:18–19For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,
- Isa 53:10–11Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.
- Rom 3:24–26and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
- Titus 2:14He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
- Isa 53:4Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted.
- Rom 8:34Who is there to condemn us? For Christ Jesus, who died, and more than that was raised to life, is at the right hand of God—and He is interceding for us.
- Num 25:1–18While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab,
- 1 Tim 2:6who gave Himself as a ransom for all—the testimony that was given at just the right time.
- Heb 2:10In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting for God, for whom and through whom all things exist, to make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering.
- 1 Pet 3:18For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,
- Rom 5:16–21Again, the gift is not like the result of the one man’s sin: The judgment that followed one sin brought condemnation, but the gift that followed many trespasses brought justification.
- Lev 1:1–17Then the LORD called to Moses and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying,
- Rom 5:6–11For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.
- Rom 10:4For Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes.
- Num 28:1–29Then the LORD said to Moses,
- 1 Pet 2:24He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
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