# Numbers 28 📖: Daily and Festival Offerings
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> [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]]
> [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]]
> [[#🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights]]
> [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]]
> [[#✝️ Christ in This Chapter]]
> [[#🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application]]
> [[#💬 Discussion Questions]]
> [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]]
> [[#🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference]]
> [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]]
> [[#📂 Internal Notes]]
## 📜 Scripture Text (NET)
(The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005)
### Daily Offerings
[[#Verse 01.]] The Lord spoke to Moses:
[[#Verse 02.]] “Command the Israelites: ‘With regard to my offering, be sure to offer my food for my offering made by fire, as a pleasing aroma to me at its appointed time.’
[[#Verse 03.]] You will say to them, ‘This is the offering made by fire that you must offer to the Lord: two unblemished lambs one year old each day for a continual burnt offering.
[[#Verse 04.]] The first lamb you must offer in the morning, and the second lamb you must offer in the late afternoon,
[[#Verse 05.]] with one-tenth of an ephah of finely ground flour as a grain offering mixed with one-quarter of a hin of pressed olive oil.
[[#Verse 06.]] It is a continual burnt offering that was instituted on Mount Sinai as a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the Lord.
[[#Verse 07.]] “‘And its drink offering must be one-quarter of a hin for each lamb. You must pour out the strong drink as a drink offering to the Lord in the Holy Place.
[[#Verse 08.]] And the second lamb you must offer in the late afternoon; just as you offered the grain offering and drink offering in the morning, you must offer it as an offering made by fire, as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
### Weekly Offerings
[[#Verse 09.]] “‘On the Sabbath day, you must offer two unblemished lambs a year old, and two-tenths of an ephah of finely ground flour as a grain offering, mixed with olive oil, along with its drink offering.
[[#Verse 10.]] This is the burnt offering for every Sabbath, besides the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.
### Monthly Offerings
[[#Verse 11.]] “‘On the first day of each month you must offer as a burnt offering to the Lord two young bulls, one ram, and seven unblemished lambs a year old,
[[#Verse 12.]] with three-tenths of an ephah of finely ground flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering for each bull, and two-tenths of an ephah of finely ground flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering for the ram,
[[#Verse 13.]] and one-tenth of an ephah of finely ground flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering for each lamb, as a burnt offering for a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the Lord.
[[#Verse 14.]] For their drink offerings, include half a hin of wine with each bull, one-third of a hin for the ram, and one-fourth of a hin for each lamb. This is the burnt offering for each month throughout the months of the year.
[[#Verse 15.]] And one male goat must be offered to the Lord as a purification offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.
### The Passover
[[#Verse 16.]] “‘On the fourteenth day of the first month is the Lord’s Passover.
[[#Verse 17.]] And on the fifteenth day of this month is the festival. For seven days bread made without yeast must be eaten.
[[#Verse 18.]] And on the first day there is to be a holy assembly; you must do no ordinary work on it.
[[#Verse 19.]] “‘But you must offer to the Lord an offering made by fire, a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs one year old; they must all be unblemished.
[[#Verse 20.]] And their grain offering is to be of finely ground flour mixed with olive oil. For each bull you must offer three-tenths of an ephah, and two-tenths for the ram.
[[#Verse 21.]] For each of the seven lambs you are to offer one-tenth of an ephah,
[[#Verse 22.]] as well as one goat for a purification offering, to make atonement for you.
[[#Verse 23.]] You must offer these in addition to the burnt offering in the morning that is for a continual burnt offering.
[[#Verse 24.]] In this manner you must offer daily throughout the seven days the food of the sacrifice made by fire as a sweet aroma to the Lord. It is to be offered in addition to the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.
[[#Verse 25.]] On the seventh day you are to have a holy assembly, you must do no regular work.
### Firstfruits
[[#Verse 26.]] “‘Also, on the day of the firstfruits, when you bring a new grain offering to the Lord during your Feast of Weeks, you are to have a holy assembly. You must do no ordinary work.
[[#Verse 27.]] But you must offer as the burnt offering, as a sweet aroma to the Lord, two young bulls, one ram, seven lambs one year old,
[[#Verse 28.]] with their grain offering of finely ground flour mixed with olive oil: three-tenths of an ephah for each bull, two-tenths for the one ram,
[[#Verse 29.]] with one-tenth for each of the seven lambs,
[[#Verse 30.]] as well as one male goat to make an atonement for you.
[[#Verse 31.]] You are to offer them with their drink offerings in addition to the continual burnt offering and its grain offering—they must be unblemished.
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## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights
1. Numbers 28 and 29 give a calendar of Israel's public offerings.
2. The daily offering, called the *tamid* in Hebrew, was a lamb in the morning and one at twilight (28:3-4).
3. The daily offering is described as instituted at Mount Sinai (28:6).
4. A drink offering was poured out in the sanctuary (28:7).
5. The Sabbath offering added two more lambs to the daily offerings (28:9-10).
6. New moon offerings marked the start of each month (28:11).
7. Passover was on the fourteenth day of the first month, followed by seven days of Unleavened Bread (28:16-17).
8. The Feast of Weeks, the day of firstfruits (28:26), is called Pentecost in the New Testament.
9. A hin was a liquid measure, often estimated at about a gallon.
10. Daniel speaks of a coming time when the daily sacrifice would be taken away (Daniel 8:11).
## 🧠 Chapter Summary
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## ✝️ Christ in This Chapter
Christ is the offering that never needs repeating. The daily, weekly, and monthly sacrifices were offered again and again (28:3-15), but Jesus offered one sacrifice for sins for all time (Hebrews 10:11-12).
## 🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application
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## 💬 Discussion Questions
1. Israel offered a lamb every morning and every evening (28:3-4). What daily rhythms help you keep God at the center?
2. God called these offerings "My food" and a pleasing aroma (28:2). What do you think God was teaching through that language?
3. The offerings increased on Sabbaths, new moons, and feasts (28:9-11). How can special days help us remember God's goodness?
## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember
- 📖 verse 2: Be careful to offer God's offerings at their appointed times.
- 📖 verses 3-4: One lamb in the morning and one at twilight, every day.
- 📖 verse 16: The Lord's Passover is on the fourteenth day of the first month.
## 🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference
- 🔗 [[Exodus 29#Verse 38.|Exodus 29:38-42]] - The daily burnt offering.
- 🔗 [[Leviticus 23#Verse 04.|Leviticus 23:4-22]] - The appointed feasts.
- 🔗 [[Acts 02#Verse 01.|Acts 2:1]] - The day of Pentecost.
- 🔗 [[Hebrews 10#Verse 11.|Hebrews 10:11-12]] - Christ offered one sacrifice for all time.
- 🔗 [[Ephesians 05#Verse 02.|Ephesians 5:2]] - Christ gave Himself as a fragrant offering.
## 🙏 Devotional Reflection
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## 📂 Internal Notes