Numbers 15:7
in Numbers 15and 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.
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This verse in Numbers 15
Commentary
6 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
a third of a hin of wine
The wine for a ram matches its oil, a third of a hin. John Gill reckons that measure of oil at about three pints and a quarter, so the wine poured with a ram came to the same. Larger animals brought more with them.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 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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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.
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 & 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
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְיַ֥יִן | veyayin | and wine | H3196 → | 141 times |
| לַנֶּ֖סֶךְ | lanesekh | for the drink offering | H5262 → | 64 times |
| שְׁלִשִׁ֣ית | shelishit | <the> third of | H7992 → | 107 times |
| הַהִ֑ין | hahin | <the> hin | H1969 → | 22 times |
| תַּקְרִ֥יב | takriv | you will bring near | H7126 → | 280 times |
| רֵֽיחַ־ | reiach- | an odor of | H7381 → | 58 times |
| נִיחֹ֖חַ | nichoach | soothing | H5207 → | 43 times |
| לַיהוָֽה׃ | layahweh | to Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
וְיַ֥יִןand wine
veyayinH3196 →141 times
לַנֶּ֖סֶךְfor the drink offering
lanesekhH5262 →64 times
שְׁלִשִׁ֣ית<the> third of
shelishitH7992 →107 times
הַהִ֑ין<the> hin
hahinH1969 →22 times
תַּקְרִ֥יבyou will bring near
takrivH7126 →280 times
רֵֽיחַ־an odor of
reiach-H7381 →58 times
נִיחֹ֖חַsoothing
nichoachH5207 →43 times
לַיהוָֽה׃to Yahweh
layahwehH3068 →6520 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); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.