One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
Parallel translations
- WEB one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
- BSB one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old 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,
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture quotations taken from the (NASB®) New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. lockman.org
Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
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 20:28Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
- John 17:19And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
- 1 Pet 1:18–19Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
- Isa 53:10–11Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
- Rom 3:24–26Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
- Titus 2:14Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
- Isa 53:4Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
- Rom 8:34Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
- Num 25:1–18And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
- 1 Tim 2:6Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
- Heb 2:10For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
- 1 Pet 3:18For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
- Rom 5:16–21And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.
- Lev 1:1–17And the LORD called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,
- Rom 5:6–11For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
- Rom 10:4For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
- Num 28:1–29And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
- 1 Pet 2:24Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
Themes, concepts, people & topics
Resources, by level
Commentaries & study tools
Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.
Sermons and teaching on this passage from across YouTube.
Clear, readable, conservative exposition — the best free place to start on any passage.
Matthew Henry, Barnes, Gill, the Pulpit Commentary, Ellicott, Cambridge, and more — stacked on one page for this exact verse.
The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).
Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.
Christ at the center
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.
How Numbers 7:15 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.
Original language
Each word below is tagged with its Strong’s number — tap one to see the underlying Hebrew word, its meaning, and every verse that uses it.