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Numbers 15:7

in Numbers 15

and a third of a hin of wine as a drink offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

and for the drink-offering thou shalt offer the third part of a hin of wine, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah.

KJV

And for a drink offering thou shalt offer the third part of an hin of wine, for a sweet savour unto the Lord.

This verse in Numbers 15

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

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 Awakening3 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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And for a drink offering thou shalt offer a third part of an hin of wine,.... The same quantity of wine was to be used in the drink offering as of oil in the meat offering, Num 15:4, for a sweet savour unto the Lord, that it might be acceptable to him.

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

8 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.

  • וְיַ֥יִןand wine

    veyayinH3196141 times

  • לַנֶּ֖סֶךְfor the drink offering

    lanesekhH526264 times

  • שְׁלִשִׁ֣ית<the> third of

    shelishitH7992107 times

  • הַהִ֑ין<the> hin

    hahinH196922 times

  • תַּקְרִ֥יבyou will bring near

    takrivH7126280 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.

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.

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; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.