Bible Strands
Exodus 29:38
This is what you are to offer regularly on the altar, each day: two lambs that are a year old.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Moses transmits God’s command to Aaron and his sons during the seven-day consecration of the tabernacle and its priesthood. This instruction immediately follows the altar’s purification and establishes the permanent daily ritual.
The words — The Hebrew בְּנֵי־שָׁנָה (benei-shanah) literally means "sons of a year," specifying lambs that have reached exactly twelve months of age. The verb תַּעֲשֶׂה (ta'aseh) denotes the active performance of the offering on the altar.
The thread — This daily two-lamb requirement recurs in Numbers 28:3 as the prescribed food offering for the LORD and appears in 1 Chronicles 16:40 and 2 Chronicles 2:4 as the established pattern for regular burnt offerings.
Why it lands — The text commands a fixed, daily sacrifice without exception, establishing ritual continuity rather than emotional response. Readers must recognize that worship here is defined by precise, repeated obedience to a set standard.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually.
Cross-references
- Numbers 28:3 And tell them that this is the food offering you are to present to the LORD as a regular burnt offering each day: two unblemished year-old male lambs.
- 1 Chronicles 16:40 to regularly present burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of burnt offerings, morning and evening, according to all that was written in the Law of the LORD, which He had commanded Israel to keep.
- 2 Chronicles 2:4 Behold, I am about to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God to dedicate to Him for burning fragrant incense before Him, for displaying the showbread continuously, and for making burnt offerings every morning and evening as well as on the Sabbaths, New Moons, and appointed feasts of the LORD our God. This is ordained for Israel forever.
- Daniel 12:11 And from the time the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination of desolation set up, there will be 1,290 days.
- 2 Chronicles 13:11 Every morning and every evening they present burnt offerings and fragrant incense to the LORD. They set out the rows of showbread on the ceremonially clean table, and every evening they light the lamps of the gold lampstand. We are carrying out the requirements of the LORD our God, while you have forsaken Him.
- 2 Chronicles 31:3 The king contributed from his own possessions for the regular morning and evening burnt offerings and for the burnt offerings on the Sabbaths, New Moons, and appointed feasts, as written in the Law of the LORD.
- Ezra 3:3 They set up the altar on its foundation and sacrificed burnt offerings on it to the LORD—both the morning and evening burnt offerings—even though they feared the people of the land.
- Daniel 9:27 And he will confirm a covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of the temple will come the abomination that causes desolation, until the decreed destruction is poured out upon him.”
- Daniel 9:21 while I was still praying, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice.
- John 1:29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!