Numbers 15:10
in Numbers 15Also present half a hin of wine as a drink offering. It is an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
and thou shalt offer for the drink-offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah.
KJV
And thou shalt bring for a drink offering half an hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.
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This verse in Numbers 15
Commentary
5 notes on this verseAnd thou shalt bring for a drink offering half an hin of wine,.... The same quantity as of oil, and a little more: for an offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the Lord: this, according to Jarchi, refers only to the meat offering and the oil: for the wine was not a fire offering, not being put upon the fire.
This site's exposition
for a ram, thou shalt prepare
on Numbers 15:6-12
The accompaniment rises with the animal on a fixed scale: a lamb carries one tenth deal of flour with a fourth part of an hin of oil and as much wine, a ram two tenth deals with a third part of an hin, a bullock three tenth deals with half an hin. The proportion is set by the beast and not by the giver, and verse 12 orders the same measure repeated for however many are brought. Gill reckons the tenth deal at about three quarts of fine flour and the fourth part of an hin at rather more than a quart.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Concerning dough for heave-offerings, ver. 17-21. Sacrifices for sins of ignorance, ver. 22-29. Concerning presumptuous sinners, ver. 30,
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And thus for each sacrifice, whether offered by a particular person or at the common charge. Note, Our religious services should be governed, as by other rules, so by the rule of proportion. Natives and strangers are here set upon a level, in this as in other matters (
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The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
two tenth deals--The quantity of flour was increased because the sacrifice was of superior value to the former. The accessory sacrifices were always increased in proportion to the greater worth and magnitude of its principal.
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How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
אשה ריח FOR A FIRE OFFERING OF [PLEASING] ODOUR — This refers only to the meal-offering and the oil mentioned in v., but the wine is not a fire-offering, since it is not put on the fire.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְיַ֛יִן | veyayin | and wine | H3196 → | 141 times |
| תַּקְרִ֥יב | takriv | you will bring near | H7126 → | 280 times |
| לַנֶּ֖סֶךְ | lanesekh | for the drink offering | H5262 → | 64 times |
| חֲצִ֣י | chatzi | <the> half of | H2677 → | 125 times |
| הַהִ֑ין | hahin | <the> hin | H1969 → | 22 times |
| אִשֵּׁ֥ה | ʾisheh | a fire offering of | H801 → | 65 times |
| רֵֽיחַ־ | reiach- | an odor of | H7381 → | 58 times |
| נִיחֹ֖חַ | nichoach | soothing | H5207 → | 43 times |
| לַיהוָֽה׃ | layahweh | to Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
וְיַ֛יִןand wine
veyayinH3196 →141 times
תַּקְרִ֥יבyou will bring near
takrivH7126 →280 times
לַנֶּ֖סֶךְfor the drink offering
lanesekhH5262 →64 times
חֲצִ֣י<the> half of
chatziH2677 →125 times
הַהִ֑ין<the> hin
hahinH1969 →22 times
אִשֵּׁ֥הa fire offering of
ʾishehH801 →65 times
רֵֽיחַ־an odor of
reiach-H7381 →58 times
נִיחֹ֖חַsoothing
nichoachH5207 →43 times
לַיהוָֽה׃to Yahweh
layahwehH3068 →6520 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Numbers 6:15together with their grain offerings and drink offerings—and a basket of unleavened cakes made from fine flour mixed with oil and unleavened wafers coated with oil.
it leads to
- Exodus 29:2
along with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour,
- Leviticus 2:4
Now if you bring an offering of grain baked in an oven, it must consist of fine flour, either unleavened cakes mixed with oil or unleavened wafers coated with oil.
- 1 Corinthians 11:26
For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.
- Exodus 29:2
Through
Numbers 15:5With the burnt offering or sacrifice of each lamb, you are to prepare a quarter hin of wine as a drink offering.
it leads to
- Numbers 28:7
The drink offering accompanying each lamb shall be a quarter hin. Pour out the offering of fermented drink to the LORD in the sanctuary area.
- Numbers 28:14
Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine with each bull, a third of a hin with the ram, and a quarter hin with each lamb. This is the monthly burnt offering…
- Judges 9:13
But the grapevine replied, ‘Should I stop giving my wine that cheers both God and man, to hold sway over the trees?’
- Zechariah 9:17
How lovely they will be, and how beautiful! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine, the young women.
- 2 Timothy 4:6
For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand.
- Numbers 28:7
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
