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one bull, one ram, and one male lamb one year old, as a burnt offering;
Numbers 7:15 · New American Standard Bible
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:
  • 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;
  • 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 20:28even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
  • John 17:19For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
  • 1 Pet 1:18–19knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,
  • Isa 53:10–11Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days, and Yahweh’s pleasure will 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 for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
  • Isa 53:4Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.
  • Rom 8:34Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
  • Num 25:1–18Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab;
  • 1 Tim 2:6who gave himself as a ransom for all; the testimony in its own times;
  • Heb 2:10For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
  • 1 Pet 3:18Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
  • Rom 5:16–21The gift is not as through one who sinned: for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses to justification.
  • Lev 1:1–17Yahweh called to Moses, and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying,
  • Rom 5:6–11For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
  • Rom 10:4For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
  • Num 28:1–29Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
  • 1 Pet 2:24who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

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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.

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