Numbers 28:3 — meaning, Hebrew and Greek word study, commentary
Numbers 28:3
And thou shalt say unto them, This is the offering made by fire which ye shall offer unto the LORD; two lambs of the first year without spot day by day, for a continual burnt offering.
a day (as the warm hours) · preposition with the article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
continual
תָמִֽידta.Mid
H8548
properly · noun, common masculine singular absolute
offering
עֹלָ֥ה'o.Lah
H5930
a step or (collectively · noun, common feminine singular absolute
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Cross-references
Exodus 29:38-42 Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually.
Leviticus 6:9 Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering: It is the burnt offering, because of the burning upon the altar a…
Ezekiel 46:13-15 Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the LORD of a lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt prepare it every morning.
Daniel 8:13 Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the dai…
Daniel 11:31 And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall…
Daniel 12:11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand t…
John 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
1 Peter 1:19-20 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Commentary
Matthew Henry on Numbers 28:1-8
Here is, I. A general order given concerning the offerings of the Lord, which were to be brought in their season, Num 28:2. These laws are here given afresh, not because the observance of them was wholly disused during their thirty-eight years' wandering in the wilderness (we cannot think that they were so long without any public worship, but that at least the daily lamb was offered morning and evening, and doubled on the sabbath day; so bishop Patrick conjectures); but that many of the sacrifices were then omitted is plainly intimated, Amo 5:25, quoted by Stephen, Act 7:42. Did you offer unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? It is implied, "No, y…
And thou shalt say unto them,.... Having directed Moses to command the people of Israel to observe to offer all the sacrifices of God in general, the Lord proceeds to order him to speak of them to them particularly and distinctly; this, according to Jarchi, is an admonition to the sanhedrim:
this is the offering made by fire, which ye shall offer unto the Lord; the daily burnt offering, which was wholly consumed by fire:
two lambs of the first year without spot, day by day for a continual burnt offering; this law was made before, and is directed to in Exodus 29:38 where the same things are said as here, only, as a further descriptive character of the lambs, they are here said to be "withou…
Numbers 28:1-15
1. And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
1. Et loquutus est Jehova ad Mosen, dicendo:
2. Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My offering, and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, for a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season.
2. Praecipe filiis Israel, et dic eis, Oblationem meam, panem meum in oblationibus meis ignitis in odorem quietis meae custodietis, ut offeraris mihi tempore suo.
3. And thou shalt say unto them, This is the offering made by fire which ye shall offer unto the LORD; two lambs of the first year without spot day by day, for a continual burnt offering.
3. Dices praeterea illis, Haec est oblatio i…
The Church Fathers
Since, therefore, we have in our hands the laws of the feasts, and the discourse is now about them, let us inquire more diligently what the order of the festivals is, so that from the very orders and the rite of the sacrifices we may be able to gather how each one, out of his own acts and holy conversations, may be able to prepare a festivity for God. The first, then, of God's festivals is that which is called "unceasing"; for the command is about those things which are to be offered unceasingly and without any interruption at all in the morning and evening sacrifices. Therefore, in commanding the rites of the festivals, He did not come first at once to the festival of the Passover, nor to that of the unleavened bread, nor to that of tabernacles and the others concerning which He gives command, but He set this one first, in which He commands the unceasing sacrifice to be offered — so that whoever wishes to be perfect and holy may recognize that a festivity is not to be kept to God sometimes and sometimes not, but the just man ought always and unceasingly to keep a feast day. For the sacrifice which is commanded to be offered unceasingly, both in the morning and in the evening, indicates this: that in the law and the prophets, which show the morning time, and in the evangelical teaching, which shows the evening, that is, the coming of the Savior at the evening of the world, one should persist with unceasing attention. Such festivals, then, the Lord calls His own: "And you shall observe my feast days." It is therefore the Lord's feast day, if we offer Him sacrifice unceasingly, if we pray without intermission, so that our prayer ascends like incense in His sight in the morning, and the lifting up of our hands becomes to Him the evening sacrifice. The first solemnity, then, is that of the unceasing sacrifice, which by the worshippers of the Gospel ought to be fulfilled in the manner we have expounded above. But since, as the prophetic word has fully taught, the feast days of sinners are turned into mourning and their songs into wailing, it is certain that he who sins and keeps days of sin cannot keep a feast day; and therefore on those days on which he sins he cannot offer the unceasing sacrifice to God. But he can offer it who unceasingly keeps justice and preserves himself from sin. But on whatever day he interrupts this and sins, it is certain that on that…
The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).
Dictionary and topics
Festivals, Religious — There were daily (Lev. 23), weekly, monthly, and yearly festivals, and great stress was laid on the regular observance of them in every particular (Num. 28:1-8; Ex. 29:38-42; Lev. 6:8-23; Ex. 30:7-9;…
Pentecost — I.e., “fiftieth”, found only in the New Testament (Acts 2:1; 20:16; 1 Cor. 16:8). The festival so named is first spoken of in Ex. 23:16 as “the feast of harvest,” and again in Ex. 34:22 as “the day…
Sin-offering — (Heb. hattath), the law of, is given in detail in Lev. 4-6:13; 9:7-11, 22-24; 12:6-8; 15:2, 14, 25-30; 14:19, 31; Num. 6:10-14. On the day of Atonement it was made with special solemnity (Lev. 16:5,…
Daily Offering · Sacrificial — Sacrificial
Daily Sacrifice, The · A lamb as a burnt offering morning and evening — A lamb as a burnt offering morning and evening
Lamb · Offering of — Offering of
Lamb, The · Offered in sacrifice: Every morning and evening — Offered in sacrifice: Every morning and evening
Sacrifices · Were offered: Daily — Were offered: Daily
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
"The daily sacrifice: as it had already been instituted at Sinai (Exo 29:38-42).
Tyndale Open Study Notes on Numbers 28:3-8
The daily offering was the foundation of the sacrificial system. Its practice was instituted at Mount Sinai (see Exod 29:38-46). • alcoholic drink: Cp. Num 6:3; Lev 10:9; Deut 14:26.
Rashi on Numbers 28:3
ואמרת להם AND THOU SHALT SAY TO THEM — This is an instruction to the Beth Din (Sifrei Bamidbar 142:3).
שנים ליום This may be understood according to its plain sense: TWO [LAMBS] FOR EACH DAY, But in the main it is intended to teach that they should be slaughtered at a spot opposite the day (i.e. the sun) — the morning continual offerings at the west and that of the evening at the east of the rings fixed in the ground and in which were inserted the animals feet (Sifrei Bamidbar 142:3; Yoma 62b).
