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Numbers 15:6

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With a ram you are to prepare a grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of olive oil,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meal-offering two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with the third part of a hin of oil:

KJV

Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meat offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third part of an hin of oil.

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This verse in Numbers 15

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
Or for a ram,.... Whether for a burnt offering or a peace offering; or rather and for a ram (g), as many versions: thou shalt prepare for a meat offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third part of an hin of oil: which was the quantity of six quarts of fine flour, and about three pints and a quarter of a pint of oil. (g) Vid. Nold. Concord. Ebr. part. p. 4. No. 24. so R. Jonah in Ben Melech in loc.

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

If the sacrifice was a bullock, the meat-offering was to be trebled, three omers, with five pints of oil, and the same quantity of wine for a drink-offering,

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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The words behind it

11 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.

  • א֤וֹor

    ʾoH176 →321 times

  • לָאַ֙יִל֙for the ram

    laayilH352 →187 times

  • תַּעֲשֶׂ֣הyou will offer

    taasehH6213 →2628 times

  • מִנְחָ֔הa grain offering

    minchahH4503 →211 times

  • סֹ֖לֶתfine flour

    soletH5560 →53 times

  • שְׁנֵ֣יtwo

    sheneiH8147 →768 times

  • עֶשְׂרֹנִ֑יםtenths [of an ephah]

    ʾesronimH6241 →33 times

  • בְּלוּלָ֥הmixed

    belulahH1101 →43 times

  • בַשֶּׁ֖מֶןwith <the> oil

    vashemenH8081 →193 times

  • שְׁלִשִׁ֥ית<the> third of

    shelishitH7992 →107 times

  • הַהִֽין׃<the> hin

    hahinH1969 →22 times

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

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

5 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 15:4

    then the one presenting his offering to the LORD shall also present a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a quarter hin of olive oil.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 29:40

      With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with a quarter hin of oil from pressed olives, and a drink offering of a quarter hin of wine.

    • Leviticus 2:1

      “When anyone brings a grain offering to the LORD, his offering must consist of fine flour. He is to pour olive oil on it, put frankincense on it,

    • Leviticus 23:13

      along with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil—an offering made by fire to the LORD, a pleasing aroma—and its drink offering of a quarter hin of…

    • Leviticus 6:14

      Now this is the law of the grain offering: Aaron’s sons shall present it before the LORD in front of the altar.

    • Numbers 28:5–8

      along with a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with a quarter hin of oil from pressed olives.

Where this verse is studied

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About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 15 →

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.

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