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Numbers 28 Bible study: A calendar of offerings
Every set day in the calendar came "in addition to the continual burnt offering" (28:10): the Sabbath, the new moon, the seven days and the first fruits never replaced the lamb in the morning and the lamb at evening (28:4). And the Hebrew for "every Sabbath" (28:10) and "every month" (28:14) comes back together in only one other verse, Isaiah 66:23.
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“You shall offer the one lamb in the morning, and you shall offer the other lamb at evening,”
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“On the Sabbath, the two daily lambs were still offered, with two more lambs besides.”
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What's really going on
From the day outward
The LORD's words open with a command: "See that you present my offering, my food for my offerings made by fire, as a pleasant aroma to me, in their due season" (28:2). Then the chapter moves outward through time: every day (28:3-8), every Sabbath (28:9-10), the beginnings of the months (28:11-15), the Passover and the seven days of unleavened bread in the first month (28:16-25), and the day of the first fruits (28:26-31). The next chapter carries on into "the seventh month" (29:1) and closes the whole list: "You shall offer these to the LORD in your set feasts" (29:39). "Due season" (28:2) and "set feasts" (29:39) are the same Hebrew word, mo'ed, so the two chapters open and close on it.
Where it leads to Jesus
At the feast of the Passover
Numbers 28:16leads toLuke 2:49
Numbers sets "the LORD’s Passover" on the fourteenth day of the first month (28:16), then seven days of unleavened bread (28:17). Luke writes, "His parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover" (Luke 2:41). When Jesus was twelve, "when they had fulfilled the days" (Luke 2:43), he stayed behind, and they found him "in the temple" (Luke 2:46), where he said, "Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?" (Luke 2:49). Luke doesn't cite Numbers or mention the offerings, so setting the two side by side is a reading: some see Jesus here inside the feast this chapter sets, kept "according to the custom of the feast" (Luke 2:42); others read the feast only as the setting Luke gives for Jesus' words about his Father (Luke 2:49).
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- Besides the continual burnt offering
- The same animals, three times
- Every Sabbath, every month, and Isaiah 66
- Kept, and taken away
- New moons in Israel's life
- 11 questions as you read
- 10 more Hebrew words
- A short check at the end
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The Hebrew word behind it
תָּמִידtamidsay ta-MEED
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "continuity", used "earliest and oftenest as adv., continually". Strong's adds that it is used "elliptically" for "the regular (daily) sacrifice". It comes seven times in this chapter (28:3, 28:6, 28:10, 28:15, 28:23, 28:24, 28:31) and ten times in the next; of its twenty uses in Numbers, seventeen are in these two chapters. Exodus first gave the daily lambs with it: "It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations" (Exodus 29:42). In Daniel the word stands alone, hattamid, "the continual", and the WEB supplies "burnt offering": "From the time that the continual burnt offering is taken away" (Daniel 12:11).
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Numbers 28 Bible study questions
- 1Nothing in this calendar pushed out the lamb in the morning and the lamb at evening (28:4, 28:10, 28:23). What daily rhythm with God do you keep, and what most often crowds it out?
- 2The LORD set the times: "in their due season" (28:2), the Sabbath, the months, the feasts. Do set times, like a weekly day or a yearly season, help your faith or make it feel routine? What makes the difference?
- 3The feast days had their celebration and also a male goat "to make atonement for you" (28:22). Why might a day of joy still include dealing with sin? How do you bring confession into the good times, not only the hard ones?
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