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Numbers 15:9

in Numbers 15

present with the bull a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of olive oil.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

then shall he offer with the bullock a meal-offering of three tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with half a hin of oil:

KJV

Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat offering of three tenth deals of flour mingled with half an hin of oil.

This verse in Numbers 15

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

This 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

three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour

The bull brings three times the flour of a lamb and twice its oil, half a hin. Numbers 28 and 29 later use these same measures of one, two and three tenths for every public offering of the calendar. The scale never changes.

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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A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

And thus for each sacrifice, whether offered by a particular person or at the common charge. Note, Our religious services should be governed, as by other rules, so by the rule of proportion. Natives and strangers are here set upon a level, in this as in other matters (

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Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat offering,.... Much larger than either for a lamb or ram, even one consisting of three tenth deals of flour; or nine quarts of it: mingled with half an hin of oil; two quarts and a pint, and somewhat more.

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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How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

אשה ריח FOR A FIRE OFFERING OF [PLEASING] ODOUR — This refers only to the meal-offering and the oil mentioned in v., but the wine is not a fire-offering, since it is not put on the fire.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Numbers 15:10:1, via Sefaria, Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

12 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.

  • וְהִקְרִ֤יבand he will bring near

    vehikrivH7126 →280 times

  • עַל־with

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • בֶּן־[the] young one of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • הַבָּקָר֙<the> cattle

    habakarH1241 →183 times

  • מִנְחָ֔הa grain offering

    minchahH4503 →211 times

  • סֹ֖לֶתfine flour

    soletH5560 →53 times

  • שְׁלֹשָׁ֣הthree

    sheloshahH7969 →432 times

  • עֶשְׂרֹנִ֑יםtenths [of an ephah]

    ʾesronimH6241 →33 times

  • בָּל֥וּלmixed

    balulH1101 →43 times

  • בַּשֶּׁ֖מֶןwith <the> oil

    bashemenH8081 →193 times

  • חֲצִ֥י<the> half of

    chatziH2677 →125 times

  • הַהִֽין׃<the> hin

    hahinH1969 →22 times

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

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Leviticus 14:10

    On the eighth day he is to bring two unblemished male lambs, an unblemished ewe lamb a year old, a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with olive oil,…

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 2:1

      “When anyone brings a grain offering to the LORD, his offering must consist of fine flour. He is to pour olive oil on it, put frankincense on it,

    • Matthew 8:4

      Then Jesus instructed him, “See that you don’t tell anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift prescribed by Moses, as a testimony to them.”

    • Luke 5:14

      “Do not tell anyone,” Jesus instructed him. “But go, show yourself to the priest and present the offering Moses prescribed for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”

    • Leviticus 14:21

      If, however, the person is poor and cannot afford these offerings, he is to take one male lamb as a guilt offering to be waved to make atonement for him, along with a tenth…

    • Mark 1:44

      “See that you don’t tell anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and present the offering Moses prescribed for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”

  • Through

    Leviticus 7:37

    This is the law of the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering, and the peace offering,

    it leads to

    • Exodus 29:1

      “Now this is what you are to do to consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve Me as priests: Take a young bull and two rams without blemish,

  • Through

    Numbers 28:12

    along with three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering with each bull, two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering with…

    it leads to

    • Numbers 15:4–12

      then the one presenting his offering to the LORD shall also present a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a quarter hin of olive oil.

  • Through

    Leviticus 6:14

    Now this is the law of the grain offering: Aaron’s sons shall present it before the LORD in front of the altar.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 15:4

      then the one presenting his offering to the LORD shall also present a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a quarter hin of olive oil.

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. 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.