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Numbers 28

Chapter 28

2021 - This reads almost like the "daily schedule" of sacrifices for Israel.  These were the basics, and the intervals that were required, to keep things going.  This was the absolute minimum.  These may be the sacrifices required for unintentional sins, and non-repeated intentional sins that were the minimum required to prevent fire or plague from descending on the people.  These were minimum to put off the punishment of sin that a just God must mete out.

God has Moses remind the people of the daily food offering that is required, a lamb each morning and evening with fine flour and a drink offering.  It seems clear from the various translations that the drink offering was fermented wine.  It had alcohol in it.  These were burnt offerings.  None was left over.


2021 - This verse:  7 Its drink offering shall be a quarter of a hin for each lamb. In the Holy Place you shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to the LORD. [Num 28:7 ESV]

Never saw this one before.  This happens in the Holy Place.  It is worded "strong drink" in both ESV and NASB.  KJV calls it strong wine, and NKJV avoids the controversy by omitting an adjective.  One of the Strong's definitions is "Intensely intoxicating liquor".  This is not just wine, though it could be some kind of enhanced wine.  Or maybe it just means undiluted wine.  The point I think is that this was not the "every day" alcoholic drink.  This was something beyond that.


Each Sabbath there was an additional lamb both morning and evening.  Burnt offering also, and in addition to the regular offerings morning and evening.  This was not "instead of". 


Monthly, at the first of the month, two bulls and seven rams as a burnt offering. and a goat as sin offering, with grain and drink offerings with each.


Reminder of the requirements of Passover offerings, including an atonement offering of a goat.  Red heifer not mentioned.  Then of the Feast of Weeks offerings.


So this chapter is mostly a reiteration of the requirements for sacrifices.  It is in summary form, just listing what the requirements are for each offering, and emphasizing that the offerings not be forgotten, and that animals sacrificed were to be without blemish.


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