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:
- ESV one bull from the herd, one ram, 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,
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Quick answer
Eliab offers a bull, ram, and lamb for a burnt offering.
Overview
Zebulun's burnt offering signified complete dedication and atonement, matching the other tribes. The identical sacrifices express equal, total surrender to God. The fully consumed offering foreshadows Christ's complete self-offering for His people.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Isa 1:11“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.
- Ps 51:16For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings.
- Ps 50:8–14I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.
- Jer 7:22For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices,
- Amos 5:22Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.
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