He brought a young bull, a ram, and a one-year-old male lamb 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:
- 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;
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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 are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.
- Ps 51:16For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.
- Ps 50:8–14I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
- Jer 7:22For I didn’t speak to your fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
- Amos 5:22Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.
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