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Numbers 15:3
and you present a food offering to the LORD from the herd or flock to produce a pleasing aroma to the LORD—either a burnt offering or a sacrifice, for a special vow or freewill offering or appointed feast—
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God instructs Moses to tell the Israelites how to present offerings after they enter the land He is giving them.
The words — וַ/עֲשִׂיתֶ֨ם (va.'a.si.Tem) means "you will make" and אִשֶּׁ֤ה ('i.Sheh) translates as "a fire offering," framing the act of presenting livestock sacrifices to Yahweh.
The thread — The verse's description of offerings as a pleasing aroma aligns with Exodus 29:18 and Genesis 8:21, while Numbers 28:27 similarly notes the aroma without mentioning appointed feasts.
Why it lands — The text requires presenting livestock-derived burnt offerings or sacrifices for vows, freewill gifts, or designated festivals to produce a pleasing aroma to God.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And will make an offering by fire unto the Lord, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour unto the Lord, of the herd, or of the flock:
Cross-references
- Exodus 29:18 Then burn the entire ram on the altar; it is a burnt offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.
- Genesis 8:21 When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.
- Numbers 28:27 Present a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old as a pleasing aroma to the LORD,
- Philippians 4:18 I have all I need and more, now that I have received your gifts from Epaphroditus. They are a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God.
- Leviticus 1:1 Then the LORD called to Moses and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying,
- Leviticus 22:18 “Speak to Aaron and his sons and all the Israelites and tell them, ‘Any man of the house of Israel or any foreign resident who presents a gift for a burnt offering to the LORD, whether to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering,
- Leviticus 23:1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
- Leviticus 27:2 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ‘When someone makes a special vow to the LORD involving the value of persons,
- Numbers 28:16 The fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.
- Exodus 29:41 And offer the second lamb at twilight with the same grain offering and drink offering as in the morning, as a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.