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Numbers 28:15
In addition to the regular burnt offering with its drink offering, one male goat is to be presented to the LORD as a sin offering.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God gives this command to Moses and the Israelites as part of the monthly new moon regulations. The instruction follows the specified wine measurements for the new moon’s drink offerings and immediately precedes the Passover festival.
The words — The Hebrew וּ/שְׂעִיר (u./se.'Ir) paired with אֶחָ֛ד ('e.Chad) literally translates to "and one male goat." This phrase is grammatically bound to לְ/חַטָּ֖את (le./cha.Tat), meaning "to a sin offering."
The thread — The identical directive to present one male goat as a sin offering appears in Numbers 28:22. The structural pattern of adding a goat for communal atonement also runs through Numbers 15:24.
Why it lands — The text explicitly commands the addition of a specific sacrifice to the established monthly ritual without providing rationale. A reader must first recognize the mandatory nature of this prescribed offering before examining its function.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And one kid of the goats for a sin offering unto the Lord shall be offered, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
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.
- Numbers 15:24 and if it was done unintentionally without the knowledge of the congregation, then the whole congregation is to prepare one young bull as a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD, with its grain offering and drink offering according to the regulation, and one male goat as a sin offering.
- Numbers 28:22 Include one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for you.
- Leviticus 4:23 When he becomes aware of the sin he has committed, he must bring an unblemished male goat as his offering.
- Leviticus 16:15 Aaron shall then slaughter the goat for the sin offering for the people and bring its blood behind the veil, and with its blood he must do as he did with the bull’s blood: He is to sprinkle it against the mercy seat and in front of it.
- Numbers 28:10 This is the burnt offering for every Sabbath, in addition to the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.
- Romans 8:3 For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,
- 2 Corinthians 5:21 God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.