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Numbers 28:30
Include one male goat to make atonement for you.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God issues this command through Moses to the Israelites during the instructions for the seventh day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. The directive occurs within a broader sequence specifying the exact quantities and types of animals required for each festival day.
The words — The text specifies אֶחָ֑ד ('e.Chad), meaning "one," and שְׂעִ֥יר (se.'Ir), meaning "a male goat." These terms are immediately joined by לְ/כַפֵּ֖ר (le./kha.Per), which literally denotes "to make atonement."
The thread — This requirement aligns with the sin offering protocol in Numbers 28:15 and Numbers 28:22. It also corresponds to the communal sacrifice procedure described in Numbers 15:24.
Why it lands — The verse demands the exact addition of a single male goat to the prescribed festival offerings. It requires the worshiper to recognize that atonement is secured only through the specific, unblemished sacrifices God has ordained.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And one kid of the goats, to make an atonement for you.
Cross-references
- 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.
- Numbers 28:22 Include one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for you.
- 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.
- 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.
- Galatians 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”
- 1 Peter 2:24 He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
- 1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,