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Numbers 7:21

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one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old for a burnt offering;

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a burnt-offering;

KJV

One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:

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This verse in Numbers 7

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

On the second day Nethanel son of Zuar

on Numbers 7:18-29

Issachar and Zebulun follow, which completes the east standard of Numbers 2:3-9. Nothing changes between the days except the name of the prince and the name of the tribe. The writer could have said that the other eleven did likewise and he declines to.

This site's exposition

one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old for a burnt offering

Matthew Henry gives one reason for the twelve days: the priests, offering the same sacrifices daily, grew practiced in the new laws of sacrifice. The burnt offering alone set a bull, a ram and a lamb on the altar each day. Twelve days made thirty-six.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering. See Gill on Num 7:15.

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

11 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.

  • פַּ֣רa young bull

    parH6499 →132 times

  • אֶחָ֞דone

    ʾechadH259 →971 times

  • בֶּן־a young one of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • בָּקָ֗רcattle

    bakarH1241 →183 times

  • אַ֧יִלa ram

    ʾayilH352 →187 times

  • אֶחָ֛דone

    ʾechadH259 →971 times

  • כֶּֽבֶשׂ־a lamb

    keves-H3532 →107 times

  • אֶחָ֥דone

    ʾechadH259 →971 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • שְׁנָת֖וֹyear its

    shenatoH8141 →877 times

  • לְעֹלָֽה׃to a burnt offering

    leolahH5930 →287 times

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

Related verses

3 in all, six open

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

    Romans 12:1

    Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.

    it leads to

    • Hebrews 13:15–16

      Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 1 Peter 2:5

      you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

    • Romans 6:13

      Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and present the parts of…

    • Romans 6:19

      I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now…

    • Ephesians 4:1

      As a prisoner in the Lord, then, I urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling you have received:

  • Through

    Ephesians 5:2

    and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

    it leads to

    • John 13:34

      A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.

    • Galatians 2:20

      I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved…

    • Colossians 3:14

      And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.

Where this verse is studied

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About Numbers

The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 7 →

This page draws on 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); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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