Thus shall it be done for one bullock, or for one ram, or for a lamb, or a kid.
Thus shall it be done for each bullock, or for each ram, or for each of the he-lambs, or of the kids.
thus it is done for the one ox, or for the one ram, or for a lamb of the sheep or of the goats.
Thus shall it be done for one ox, or for one ram, or for a lamb, or for a kid;
Numbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.
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Thus shall it be done for one bullock,.... Such a quantity of flour and oil for the meat offering, and such a quantity of wine for the drink offering as before expressed; making no difference between one young or old: or for a ram: which, Jarchi says, was thirteen months and one day old: or for a lamb, or a kid; for a young one of the flock, whether of the sheep or goat, whether a lamb or a kid of the goats; which, according to Jarchi, were within a year, not a year old.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The verses this one reaches2
These are in addition to the monthly and daily burnt offerings with their prescribed grain offerings and drink offerings. They are a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man must select a lamb for his family, one per household.
