Numbers 28:6

28:1-8 God saw fit now to repeat the law of sacrifices. This was a new generation of men; and they were concerned to keep their peace with God when at war with their enemies. The daily sacrifice is called a continual burnt-offering; when we are bid to pray always, at least every morning and evening we should offer up solemn prayers and praises to God. Nothing is added here but that the wine poured out in the drink-offering is to be strong wine, to teach us to serve God with the best we have. It was a figure of the blood of Christ, the memorial of which is still left to the church in wine; and of the blood of the martyrs, which was poured out as a drink-offering on the sacrifice and service of our faith, Php 2:17.

It is a continual burnt offering,.... For the meat offering was burnt as well as the lambs, at least part of it: which was ordained in Mount Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord; that is, this law concerning the daily burnt offering was made on Mount Sinai, so long ago as the children of Israel were there; and it was then ordered that they should continually offer such a sacrifice by fire, which would be grateful and acceptable unto God, especially when done in faith of the sacrifice of his Son it was a type of; or which sacrifice was "made" (e) or offered at Mount Sinai, when the law of it was first given there: hence Aben Ezra observes, that this is a sign that they did not offer burnt offerings in the wilderness after they journeyed from Sinai; but then, though sacrifices were not so frequently offered by them as afterwards, yet one would think that the daily sacrifice would not be omitted, which seemed to be always necessary; nor would there be any, or but little use of the altar, and the fire continually burning on it, if this was the case; see Amos 5:25. (e) "quod obtulistis", V. L. "quod factum est", Pagninus; "quod sacrificatum fucrat", Piscator.

(6) Which was ordained in mount Sinai . . . Or, which was offered (Hebrew, made ) in Mount Sinai. Ibn Ezra adduces this passage as a proof that the Israelites ceased to offer burnt sacrifices after they left the encampment at Sinai throughout the time of their wanderings in the wilderness.

My offering, and my bread ... - Or, my offering, even my bread, etc. Offering is here קרבן qorbân (compare Leviticus 1:2 ; Mark 7:11 ), a term in itself of quite general import, but often especially applied, as apparently in this instance, to the meat-offering which accompanied the sacrifices. This meat-offering connected itself, from its very nature, with the life of the Israelites in Canaan, not with their life in the wilderness; and it was annexed to the animal sacrifices as a token that the people must dedicate to God their property and the fruits of their labor as well as their own persons. See Numbers 15:2 note and Leviticus 21:6 .

2. Command the children of Israel, and say unto them—The repetition of several laws formerly enacted, which is made in this chapter, was seasonable and necessary, not only on account of their importance and the frequent neglect of them, but because a new generation had sprung up since their first institution and because the Israelites were about to be settled in the land where those ordinances were to be observed. My offering, and my bread—used generally for the appointed offerings, and the import of the prescription is to enforce regularity and care in their observance.

[Bible] 27:23. And laying his hands on his head, he repeated all things that the Lord had commanded. Numbers Chapter 28 Sacrifices are appointed as well for every day as for sabbaths, and other festivals. 28:1. The Lord also said to Moses: 28:2. Command the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: Offer ye my oblation and my bread, and burnt sacrifice of most sweet odour, in their due seasons. 28:3. These are the sacrifices which you shall offer: Two lambs of a year old without blemish every day for the perpetual holocaust: 28:4. One you shall offer in the mornings, and the other in the evening: 28:5. And the tenth part of an ephi of flour, which shall be tempered with the, purest oil, of the measure of the fourth part of a hin. 28:6. It is the continual holocaust which you offered in mount Sinai for a most sweet odour of a sacrifice by fire to the Lord. 28:7. And for a libation you shall offer of wine the fourth part of a hin for every lamb in the sanctuary of the Lord. 28:8. And you shall offer the other lamb in like manner in the evening according to all the rites of the morning sacrifice, and of the libations thereof, an oblation of most sweet odour to the Lord. 28:9. And on the sabbath day you shall offer two lambs of a year old without blemish, and two tenths of flour tempered with oil in sacrifice, and the libations, 28:10. Which regularly are poured out every sabbath for the perpetual holocaust. 28:11. And on the first day of the month you shall offer a holocaust to the Lord, two calves of the herd, one ram, and seven lambs of a year old, without blemish, 28:12. And three tenths of flour tempered with oil in sacrifice for every calf: and two tenths of flour tempered with oil for every ram: 28:13. And the tenth of a tenth of flour tempered with oil in sacrifice for every lamb. It is a holocaust of most sweet odour and an offering by fire to the Lord.

[Reformed Biblical] the sacrifices, as that phrase is sometimes taken, as 1Sa_2:28, where it must needs be so meant, because the burntofferings properly so called were not given to the priest, but reserved to God himself, and the priest’s portion lay in the other sacrifices only; or, 2. Specially and properly for burnt-offerings; and so under them, as the most eminent kind, are contained all other sacrifices; as under the meat-offering here is contained the drink-offering. And according to this translation and explication these words contain a full and general rule, comprehending all the particulars following in this chapter, as in reason they ought to do, and which otherwise they do not. Numbers 28:3 Numbers 28:4 Numbers 28:5 ## A meat-offering, which was an appendix or accessary to the principal sacrifice. See on Lev_2:1 Num_15:4. Numbers 28:6 ## Ordained, or, prescribed , instituted by God. Or, made, i.e. offered at that place, though since omitted for thirty-eight years. Numbers 28:7 ## In the holy place, i.e. upon the altar of burnt-offerings, which was in the court of the priests nigh to the entrance into the sanctuary. See Exo_29:42 2Ch_29:7. ## Strong wine, Heb. shecar , which though it signify in the general all kinds of s

40 . The minḥâh , or ‘meal-offering’ (see Leviticus 2), as it is expressly termed in the "" Numbers 28:5 , which in P is the regular concomitant of a burnt-offering (see Numbers 15:1-12 ; and cf. Numbers 28:9 ; Numbers 28:12-13 , &c.). a tenth part (of an ephah)] Heb. ‘ issârôn , only in P (28 times). The ephah was probably about 8 gallons, so the ‘ issârôn would be about 6½ pints (see further Kennedy, in DB. iv. 912b, near the bottom). fine flour ] Genesis 18:6 and often: as the material of a meal-offering Leviticus 2:1 ; Leviticus 2:4-5 ; Leviticus 2:7 , and elsewhere. mingled with … oil ] as v. 2, Leviticus 2:4-5 al. A ‘hin’ (Jos. Ant. iii. 8. 3) was 1/6 of the ‘bath’ (the equivalent for liquid measure of the ephah for dry measure, Ezekiel 45:11 ) = about 1⅓ gallon; ¼ of a hin would thus be about 2⅔ pints. For the oil of superior quality called beaten oil , see on Exodus 27:20 : this is the only minḥâh for which it is prescribed. a drink offering ] or libation ; also a frequent concomitant of the burnt-offering ( Numbers 15:5 ; Numbers 15:7 ; Numbers 15:10 ; cf. Numbers 28:9 ; Numbers 28:14 ; Numbers 29:18 ; Numbers 29:21 , &c.). According to Sir 50:15 it was poured out at the base of the altar. The amount, ¼ hin for a lamb, is the same as in Numbers 15:5 ; Numbers 28:14 ; for larger animals the amount was greater.