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Numbers 29:17
On the second day you are to present twelve young bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old, all unblemished,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God instructs Moses and the priests on the second day of the seven-day festival, specifying the exact livestock to be added to the daily burnt offering.
The words — הַשֵּׁנִי (ha.sheni) means "the second," and בְּנֵי־בָקָר (benei-baqar) literally denotes "young ones of cattle," specifying the twelve bulls required that day.
The thread — This count continues the festival's decreasing bull schedule, contrasting with thirteen bulls on day one (Numbers 29:13) and eleven on day three (Numbers 29:20), within the seven-day food offering pattern of Leviticus 23:36.
Why it lands — The text demands exact adherence to a graded sacrificial count, requiring the worshipper to track and present the specified animals without deviation.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And on the second day ye shall offer twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:
Cross-references
- Leviticus 23:36 For seven days you are to present a food offering to the LORD. On the eighth day you are to hold a sacred assembly and present a food offering to the LORD. It is a solemn assembly; you must not do any regular work.
- Numbers 29:13 As a pleasing aroma to the LORD, you are to present a food offering, a burnt offering of thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old, all unblemished,
- Numbers 29:20 On the third day you are to present eleven bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old, all unblemished,
- Psalms 40:6 Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require.
- Psalms 50:8 I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.
- Psalms 51:16 For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings.
- Psalms 69:31 And this will please the LORD more than an ox, more than a bull with horns and hooves.
- Isaiah 1:11 “What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.
- Jeremiah 7:22 For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices,
- Hosea 6:6 For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.