Numbers 15:12
in Numbers 15This is how you must prepare each one, no matter how many.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to every one according to their number.
KJV
According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to every one according to their number.
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This verse in Numbers 15
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
With a ram you are to prepare
on Numbers 15:6-12
Grain rises with the animal on a fixed scale, a tenth of an ephah for a lamb, two-tenths for a ram, more for a bull. The beast sets the measure, and verse 12 repeats it for each one, no matter how many.
This site's exposition
no matter how many
A man bringing ten lambs brought ten sets of flour, oil and wine. One grain offering could never stand for a whole herd. Numbers 29:18 applies the same rule to the Feast of Tabernacles, where the grain and drink offerings follow the number of animals each day.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
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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According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to everyone, according to their number. That is, in proportion to the number of the cattle, be they of which sort they would, should be the quantity of the meat and drink offerings.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
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
7 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כַּמִּסְפָּ֖ר | kamispar | according to the number | H4557 → | 134 times |
| אֲשֶׁ֣ר | ʾasher | which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| תַּעֲשׂ֑וּ | taasu | you will offer | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| כָּ֛כָה | kakhah | thus | H3602 → | 37 times |
| תַּעֲשׂ֥וּ | taasu | you will do | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| לָאֶחָ֖ד | laechad | for the one | H259 → | 971 times |
| כְּמִסְפָּרָֽם׃ | kemisparam | according to number their | H4557 → | 134 times |
כַּמִּסְפָּ֖רaccording to the number
kamisparH4557 →134 times
אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
תַּעֲשׂ֑וּyou will offer
taasuH6213 →2628 times
כָּ֛כָהthus
kakhahH3602 →37 times
תַּעֲשׂ֥וּyou will do
taasuH6213 →2628 times
לָאֶחָ֖דfor the one
laechadH259 →971 times
כְּמִסְפָּרָֽם׃according to number their
kemisparamH4557 →134 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
About Numbers
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) and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament.