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Numbers 15:10

in Numbers 15

Also 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.

This verse in Numbers 15

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
And 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

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

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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A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

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 & Brown

1802–1910

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.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Numbers 15:10:1, via Sefaria, Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934

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 words

Every 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.

  • וְיַ֛יִןand wine

    veyayinH3196141 times

  • תַּקְרִ֥יבyou will bring near

    takrivH7126280 times

  • לַנֶּ֖סֶךְfor the drink offering

    lanesekhH526264 times

  • חֲצִ֣י<the> half of

    chatziH2677125 times

  • הַהִ֑ין<the> hin

    hahinH196922 times

  • אִשֵּׁ֥הa fire offering of

    ʾishehH80165 times

  • רֵֽיחַ־an odor of

    reiach-H738158 times

  • נִיחֹ֖חַsoothing

    nichoachH520743 times

  • לַיהוָֽה׃to Yahweh

    layahwehH30686520 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each 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 6:15

    together 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.

  • Through

    Numbers 15:5

    With 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.

Where this verse is studied

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The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

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.