And one kid of the goats for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you:
and one he-goat for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you;
and one kid of the goats, a sin-offering, to make atonement for you;
and one buck of the goats for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you,
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.
Voices1
If we perform family-worship, we must not think that this will excuse us from our secret devotions; nor that on the days we go to church we need not worship God alone and with our families; but we should always abound in the work of the Lord.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
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 reaches5
Include one male goat to make atonement for you.
In addition to the regular burnt offering with its drink offering, one male goat is to be presented to the LORD as a sin offering.
Include one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for you.
When he becomes aware of the sin he has committed, he must bring an unblemished male goat as his offering.
Each day during the seven days of the feast, he shall provide seven bulls and seven rams without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD, along with a male goat for a sin offering.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Numbers 28:15In addition to the regular burnt offering with its drink offering, one male goat is to be presented to the LORD as a sin offering.
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Include one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for you.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
And tell them that this is the offering made by fire you are to present to the LORD as a regular burnt offering each day: two unblemished year-old male lambs.
and if it was done unintentionally without the knowledge of the congregation, then the whole congregation is to prepare one young bull as a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD, with its…
Aaron shall then slaughter the goat for the sin offering for the people and bring its blood behind the veil, and with its blood he must do as he did with the bull’s blood:…
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Numbers 28:22Include one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for you.
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For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin.…
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
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Numbers 28:30Include one male goat to make atonement for you.
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In addition to the regular burnt offering with its drink offering, one male goat is to be presented to the LORD as a sin offering.
He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”
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