Exodus 29:38
36 Sacrifice a bull as a sin offering each day for atonement. Purify the altar by making atonement for it, and anoint it to consecrate it.
37 For seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will become most holy; whatever touches the altar will be holy.
This is what you are to offer regularly on the altar, each day: two lambs that are a year old.
39 Offer one lamb in the morning and the other at twilight.
40 With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with a quarter hin of oil from pressed olives, and a drink offering of a quarter hin of wine.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- This is what you are to offer regularly on the altar, each day: two lambs that are a year old.
- KJV
- Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually.
- WEB
- “Now this is that which you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually.
- ASV
- Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually.
- DARBY
- And this is what thou shalt offer upon the altar two lambs of the first year, day by day continually.
- BLB
- And this [is] what you shall offer on the altar: Two lambs, sons of a year, day by day continually.
- ÅB
- Dette er det du alltid skal ofre på alteret: hver dag to årsgamle lam.
- OTB
- "Dette er hva du skal ofre på alteret: to ett år gamle lam hver dag, regelmessig.
- B1930
- Dette er det du alltid skal ofre på alteret: hver dag to årsgamle lam.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Chronicles 16:40
to regularly present burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of burnt offerings, morning and evening, according to all that was written in the Law of the LORD, which He had commanded Israel to keep.
Read in contextNumbers 28:3–8
And tell them that this is the offering made by fire you are to present to the LORD as a regular burnt offering each day: two unblemished year-old male lambs.
Read in context2 Chronicles 2:4
Behold, I am about to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God to dedicate to Him for burning fragrant incense before Him, for displaying the showbread continuously, and for making burnt offerings every morning and evening as well as on the Sabbaths, New Moons, and appointed feasts of the LORD our God. This is ordained for Israel forever.
Read in contextDaniel 12:11
And from the time the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination of desolation set up, there will be 1,290 days.
Read in context2 Chronicles 13:11
Every morning and every evening they present burnt offerings and fragrant incense to the LORD. They set out the rows of showbread on the ceremonially clean table, and every evening they light the lamps of the gold lampstand. We are carrying out the requirements of the LORD our God, while you have forsaken Him.
Read in context2 Chronicles 31:3
The king contributed from his own possessions for the regular morning and evening burnt offerings and for the burnt offerings on the Sabbaths, New Moons, and appointed feasts, as written in the Law of the LORD.
Read in contextEzra 3:3
They set up the altar on its foundation and sacrificed burnt offerings on it to the LORD—both the morning and evening burnt offerings—even though they feared the people of the land.
Read in contextDaniel 9:27
And he will confirm a covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of the temple will come the abomination that causes desolation, until the decreed destruction is poured out upon him.”
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