Bible Strands
Numbers 28:6
This is a regular burnt offering established at Mount Sinai as a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The text records a divine command regarding the daily sacrificial system instituted at Mount Sinai for the Israelite community. It specifies the ritual framework immediately following the grain offering details and preceding the drink offering instructions.
The words — תָּמִ֑יד (ta.Mid) denotes continuity, marking the sacrifice as an unbroken cycle. נִיחֹ֔חַ (ni.Cho.ach) literally means a soothing or pleasing odor, describing the sensory result of the fire offering.
The thread — The daily two-lamb ritual originates in Exodus 29:38 and is later questioned regarding its wilderness origins in Amos 5:25. The Sinai location anchors these instructions, echoing the covenantal revelation in Exodus 31:18.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition of a fixed, recurring covenant ritual rather than spontaneous worship. It requires the reader to treat the prescribed offering as a continuous obligation tied directly to the Sinai revelation.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord.
Cross-references
- Amos 5:25 Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
- Exodus 29:38 This is what you are to offer regularly on the altar, each day: two lambs that are a year old.
- Exodus 31:18 When the LORD had finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, He gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.
- 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.
- 2 Chronicles 2:4 Behold, I am about to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God to dedicate to Him for burning fragrant incense before Him, for displaying the showbread continuously, and for making burnt offerings every morning and evening as well as on the Sabbaths, New Moons, and appointed feasts of the LORD our God. This is ordained for Israel forever.
- 2 Chronicles 31:3 The king contributed from his own possessions for the regular morning and evening burnt offerings and for the burnt offerings on the Sabbaths, New Moons, and appointed feasts, as written in the Law of the LORD.
- Ezra 3:4 They also celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles in accordance with what is written, and they offered burnt offerings daily based on the number prescribed for each day.
- Psalms 50:8 I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.
- Ezekiel 46:14 You are also to provide with it every morning a grain offering of a sixth of an ephah with a third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour—a grain offering to the LORD. This is a permanent statute.
- Exodus 24:18 Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.