Bible Chapter Summary
Numbers 28 Summary
Appointed Offerings and Sacred Feasts
The LORD instructs Moses to command Israel to present His offerings faithfully at their appointed times. The chapter prescribes the precise sacrificial requirements for the daily continual burnt offering (two unblemished lambs, morning and evening, with accompanying grain and drink offerings), the Sabbath burnt offering (two additional lambs), and the monthly new-moon offering (two young bullocks, one ram, and seven lambs, along with a sin offering of one kid). It then details the offerings for the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month and the subsequent seven-day Feast of Unleavened Bread, each day of which requires additional burnt offerings and a sin offering, with holy convocations on the first and seventh days. Finally, the chapter prescribes the offerings for the Day of Firstfruits (the Feast of Weeks), specifying the same pattern of bullocks, ram, lambs, grain offerings, drink offerings, and a sin-offering goat, all to be presented alongside the continual burnt offering.
Key themes
Key verses
Numbers 28:2
“Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My offering, and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, for a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season.”
Numbers 28:3
“And thou shalt say unto them, This is the offering made by fire which ye shall offer unto the LORD; two lambs of the first year without spot day by day, for a continual burnt offering.”
Numbers 28:16
“And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD.”
Numbers 28:26
“Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat offering unto the LORD, after your weeks be out, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:”
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