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Numbers 7:34

in Numbers 7

one male goat for a sin offering;

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

one male of the goats for a sin-offering;

KJV

One kid of the goats for a sin offering:

This verse in Numbers 7

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur

on Numbers 7:30-47

Days four to six are Reuben, Simeon and Gad, the south standard of Numbers 2:10-16. Reuben was the firstborn and comes fourth, which Numbers 2 had already settled and Genesis 49:3-4 had explained. The offering does not vary by the size of a tribe or the standing of a man.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

One kid of the goats for a sin offering. See Gill on Num 7:16.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

But while this was done in one respect, as subjects offering tribute to their king, it was in another respect, a purely religious act. The vessels offered were for a sacrificial use--the animals brought were clean and fit for sacrifice, both symbolically denoting, that while God was to dwell among them as their Sovereign, they were a holy people, who by this offering dedicated themselves to God.

The words behind it

4 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.

  • שְׂעִיר־a male goat of

    seir-H816359 times

  • עִזִּ֥יםgoats

    ʾizimH579574 times

  • אֶחָ֖דone

    ʾechadH259971 times

  • לְחַטָּֽאת׃to a sin offering

    lechatatH2403295 times

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

About Numbers

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

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.