Bible Strands
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.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Yahweh instructs Moses to command the Israelites regarding the daily sacrificial routine.
The words — הָֽאִשֶּׁׁה (ha'ishsheh) translates literally as "the fire offering," and תַּקְרִיבוּ (takrivu) means "you will bring near" or present it to Yahweh.
The thread — The daily two-lamb requirement appears in Exodus 29:38 and is reiterated in Ezekiel 46:13 as a standing altar ordinance.
Why it lands — The text dictates a fixed daily obligation to supply unblemished year-old male lambs, establishing a non-negotiable rhythm of provision for Yahweh's altar.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And thou shalt say unto them, This is the offering made by fire which ye shall offer unto the Lord; two lambs of the first year without spot day by day, for a continual burnt offering.
Cross-references
- Exodus 29:38 This is what you are to offer regularly on the altar, each day: two lambs that are a year old.
- Leviticus 6:9 “Command Aaron and his sons that this is the law of the burnt offering: The burnt offering is to remain on the hearth of the altar all night, until morning, and the fire must be kept burning on the altar.
- Ezekiel 46:13 And you shall provide an unblemished year-old lamb as a daily burnt offering to the LORD; you are to offer it every morning.
- Daniel 8:13 Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to him, “How long until the fulfillment of the vision of the daily sacrifice, the rebellion that causes desolation, and the surrender of the sanctuary and of the host to be trampled?”
- Daniel 11:31 His forces will rise up and desecrate the temple fortress. They will abolish the daily sacrifice and set up the abomination of desolation.
- 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.
- 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!
- 1 Peter 1:19 but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.
- Revelation 13:8 And all who dwell on the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb who was slain.