Numbers 28

Numbers 28:1

E. Offering and Vows (Chaps. 28-30)Chaps. 28, 29 In these chapters, the people are reminded of the offerings and feasts which were to be observed in the land. Daily offerings:Continual burnt offering, morning and evening, with a grain offering and drink offering included (28:3-8). Every day in life, so long as the temple stood, the following sacrifices had to be carried out both morning and evening (28:3-8). Every morning and every evening a one-year-old male lamb . . . without spot or blemish was offered as a burnt offering. Along with it there was offered a grain offering, which consisted of one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour . . . mixed with a quarter of a hin of pure oil. Also there was a drink offering, which consisted of a quarter of a hin of wine. There was an offering of incense before these offerings in the morning, and after them in the evening. Ever since there was a Jewish temple, and so long as the temple continued to exist, this routine of sacrifice went on. There was a kind of priestly treadmill of sacrifice. Moffatt speaks of “the levitical drudges” who, day in and day out, kept offering these sacrifices. There was no end to this process, and when all was said and done, it still left men conscious of their sin and alienation from God. Weekly offerings:Weekly burnt offering, on each Sabbath, with grain offering and drink offering (28:9-10). Monthly offerings:Burnt offering on the first day of each month, with grain offering and drink offering (28:11-14). Sin offering (28:15). Feasts of Jehovah:Passoverfourteenth day of first month (28:16). Feast of Unleavened Breadfifteenth day to twenty-first day of first month (28:17-25). Feast of weeks (28:26-31). Note: The day of the firstfruits (v. 26) should not be confused with the Feast of Firstfruits (Lev_23:9-14). Feast of Trumpetsfirst day of seventh month (Num_29:1-6). Day of Atonementtenth day of seventh month (Num_29:7-11). Feast of Tabernaclesfifteenth day through twenty-first day of the seventh month (Num_29:12-34). There was a special Sabbath observance on the eighth day (Num_29:35-39).