Bible Strands
Numbers 15:5
With the burnt offering or sacrifice of each lamb, you are to prepare a quarter hin of wine as a drink offering.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God gives Moses and the Israelites in the wilderness the precise measurements required for each sacrificial offering.
The words — The Hebrew נֶ֙סֶךְ֙ (nesekh) denotes a liquid libation, while רְבִיעִ֣ית (revi'it) specifies the fraction "a fourth" of the standard hin vessel.
The thread — This quarter-hin wine requirement reappears in the tabernacle ritual regulations of Numbers 28:7 and 28:14, which systematize the exact wine quantities for lambs, rams, and bulls.
Why it lands — The text demands exact compliance with measured ritual proportions, requiring the worshiper to prepare the specified wine volume alongside the animal sacrifice without deviation.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one lamb.
Cross-references
- Numbers 28:7 The drink offering accompanying each lamb shall be a quarter hin. Pour out the offering of fermented drink to the LORD in the sanctuary area.
- Numbers 28:14 Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine with each bull, a third of a hin with the ram, and a quarter hin with each lamb. This is the monthly burnt offering to be made at each new moon throughout the year.
- Judges 9:13 But the grapevine replied, ‘Should I stop giving my wine that cheers both God and man, to hold sway over the trees?’
- Psalms 116:13 I will lift the cup of salvation and call on the name of the LORD.
- Song of Solomon 1:4 Take me away with you—let us hurry! May the king bring me to his chambers. We will rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. It is only right that they adore you.
- Zechariah 9:17 How lovely they will be, and how beautiful! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine, the young women.
- Matthew 26:28 This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
- Philippians 2:17 But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you.
- 2 Timothy 4:6 For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand.