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Numbers 29:6
These are in addition to the monthly and daily burnt offerings with their prescribed grain offerings and drink offerings. They are a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Moses conveys Yahweh’s instructions to the Israelites regarding the sacrifices for the first day of the seventh month. This directive follows the sin offering in verse 5 and precedes the Day of Atonement assembly in verse 7.
The words — The Hebrew מִלְּבַד (mil·le·vad) translates literally as "besides" or "in addition to," while הַתָּמִיד (ha·ta·mid) denotes "continuity" or the regular daily cycle. These terms anchor the verse’s function as a procedural connector within the sacrificial calendar.
The thread — The text explicitly links this day’s offerings to the established daily burnt offering (Numbers 28:3; Exodus 29:38) and the monthly new moon sacrifices (Numbers 28:11). The pattern repeats the structural formula of adding specific festival rites to the permanent altar routine.
Why it lands — The text states that these additional sacrifices accompany the standard grain and drink offerings and are presented as a pleasing aroma to the LORD. A reader must recognize that festival observance does not replace the daily cultic rhythm but operates alongside it.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Beside the burnt offering of the month, and his meat offering, and the daily burnt offering, and his meat offering, and their drink offerings, according unto their manner, for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord.
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 28:11 At the beginning of every month, you are to present to the LORD a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old, all unblemished,
- 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.
- Numbers 9:14 If a foreigner dwelling among you wants to observe the Passover to the LORD, he is to do so according to the Passover statute and its ordinances. You are to apply the same statute to both the foreigner and the native of the land.’”
- Numbers 15:11 This is to be done for each bull, ram, lamb, or goat.
- 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 29:18 along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
- Numbers 29:21 along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
- 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.