Trumpets Offerings
Numbers 29:1-6
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Num.29.1 - Details
Original Text
Morphology
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- השביעי: ADJ,m,sg,def
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Parallels
- Lev.23:24-25 (verbal): Prescribes a holy convocation on the first of the seventh month with a blowing of trumpets and prohibition of ordinary work—essentially the same festival law (Feast of Trumpets).
- Num.10:10 (verbal): Commands the blowing of trumpets at appointed festivals and joyful occasions, linking trumpet blasts with sacred convocations and rites.
- Neh.8:2-3 (structural): Describes the assembly of the people on the first day of the seventh month to gather and hear the Law—shows post‑exilic observance of that calendar date as a communal holy day.
- Ps.81:3 (verbal): Calls for blowing the trumpet at the new moon and appointed feast day, echoing the liturgical function of trumpet blasts for sacred times.
- Joel 2:1 (allusion): Uses the image of blowing a trumpet in Zion to summon a solemn assembly and signal divine action; thematically parallels the trumpet’s role in calling the community to sacred observance.
Alternative generated candidates
- And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work. It shall be a day of blowing the trumpets for you.
- In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work of labor. It shall be a day of trumpet blast for you.
Num.29.2 - Details
Original Text
Morphology
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- לריח: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
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- בקר: NOUN,m,sg,abs
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- בני: NOUN,m,pl,construct
- שנה: NOUN,f,sg,abs
- שבעה: NOUN,m,sg,abs
- תמימם: ADJ,m,pl,abs
Parallels
- Leviticus 23:24-25 (thematic): Commands the holy convocation and blowing of trumpets on the first day of the seventh month (Feast of Trumpets); Numbers 29:2 gives the specific sacrificial prescription for that festival.
- Leviticus 23:37-38 (structural): Summarizes the required burnt, meat and drink offerings for the appointed feasts; parallels Numbers 29:2’s listing of the animals and the ritual form (burnt offering, sweet savour) for a festival day.
- Numbers 29:1 (structural): Immediate context/introduction to the seventh‑month observances; verse 1 names the day (a holy convocation and blowing of trumpets), and verse 2 specifies the animals to be offered.
- Leviticus 1:3-4 (verbal): Gives the general requirements for a burnt offering (a male without blemish, to be offered by fire and be a pleasing aroma to the LORD); Numbers 29:2 applies these sacrificial norms to the festival offering.
- Numbers 28:11-15 (thematic): Part of the same sacrificial timetable (offers prescribed animals for a calendrical observance—New Moon); parallels Numbers 29:2 in enumerating festival offerings (bullock, ram, lambs) as part of the cultic schedule.
Alternative generated candidates
- And you shall offer a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD: one young bull, one ram, and seven yearling lambs, all without blemish.
- And you shall offer a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD: one young bull, one ram, and seven one-year-old lambs, unblemished.
Num.29.3 - Details
Original Text
Morphology
- ומנחתם: CONJ+NOUN,f,sg,poss3,m,pl
- סלת: NOUN,f,sg,abs
- בלולה: ADJ,ptc,pas,f,sg,abs
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- שלשה: NUM,m
- עשרנים: NOUN,m,pl,abs
- לפר: PREP
- שני: NUM,m,pl,construct
- עשרנים: NOUN,m,pl,abs
- לאיל: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
Parallels
- Leviticus 2:1-2 (verbal): The law for the grain (meal) offering: 'of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it' — same vocabulary and ritual instruction for offerings of flour mingled with oil.
- Numbers 28:5 (verbal): Prescribes the meat/meal offering for the continual burnt offering as 'a tenth deal of flour mingled with oil,' nearly identical wording and proportioning within the same sacrificial system.
- Exodus 29:40 (verbal): In the rites for the daily offerings (and consecration) a portion of fine flour mixed with oil is specified with the animal sacrifices, paralleling the combination of flour, oil, and animals in Num 29:3.
- Leviticus 7:12 (thematic): In regulations for thanksgiving (shelamim) offerings the meat/meal offering appears as cakes or fine flour mixed with oil — same cultic practice of pairing grain offerings (with oil) alongside animal sacrifices.
Alternative generated candidates
- Their grain offering shall be fine flour mixed with oil—thirteen measures for the bull and twelve measures for the ram.
- And their grain offering shall be of fine flour mixed with oil—thirteen cakes for the bull, and two cakes for the ram;
Num.29.4 - Details
Original Text
Morphology
- ועשרון: CONJ+NOUN,m,sg,abs
- אחד: NUM,card,m,sg
- לכבש: VERB,qal,inf
- האחד: PRON,indef,sg,m
- לשבעת: PREP+NUM,card,m,pl,abs
- הכבשים: NOUN,m,pl,def
Parallels
- Numbers 29:1-6 (structural): Immediate context: the opening verses of the same section laying out the specific animals and numbers to be offered on the first day of the feast—same sacrificial list and ritual framing as v.4.
- Numbers 29:12-13 (structural): Parallel structure for the second day of the festival: repeats the same pattern of bulls, rams and lambs, showing the formulaic, day-by-day repetition of offerings.
- Numbers 28:3-8 (verbal): Earlier statutory pattern for regular daily and additional offerings (burnt offerings and accompanying grain/wine), which provides the verbal and liturgical template used in Num 29 for festival sacrifices.
- Leviticus 1:3 (verbal): Law for the burnt offering requiring a male without blemish (lamb/ram) — the technical sacrificial language behind the offering of rams and lambs in Num 29:4.
- Leviticus 3:1 (thematic): Description of peace/fellowship offerings (often lambs or rams) and their ritual placement alongside burnt offerings; thematically related to the pairing of different kinds of animals in Num 29's festival sacrifices.
Alternative generated candidates
- And one-tenth for each lamb, for the seven lambs.
- and one cake to each of the seven lambs.
Num.29.5 - Details
Original Text
Morphology
- ושעיר: CONJ+NOUN,m,sg,abs
- עזים: NOUN,f,pl,abs
- אחד: NUM,card,m,sg
- חטאת: NOUN,f,sg,abs
- לכפר: PREP+VERB,qal,inf
- עליכם: PREP+PRON,2,m,pl
Parallels
- Leviticus 4:27-31 (verbal): Prescribes a goat (or lamb) as a sin offering (חטאת) for an individual sinner; language and cultic function (bringing a goat to make atonement) parallel Num 29:5.
- Leviticus 4:35 (verbal): Summarizes the effect of the sin offering: the priest makes atonement and the offender is forgiven—explicitly linking the sin offering with atonement as in Num 29:5.
- Leviticus 16:9-15 (thematic): Yom Kippur ritual involving two goats—one slain as a sin offering for the people—shows the major cultic instance of goats used to secure atonement for the community, thematically parallel to the goat-for-atonement in Num 29:5.
- Numbers 29:14 (structural): Another verse in the same chapter listing a 'kid of the goats for a sin offering' for a festival day; repeats the same offering formula and cultic category as Num 29:5.
Alternative generated candidates
- And one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for you.
- And one male goat for a sin offering to make atonement for you.
Num.29.6 - Details
Original Text
Morphology
- מלבד: PREP
- עלת: VERB,qal,perf,3,_,pl
- החדש: NOUN,m,sg,def
- ומנחתה: CONJ+NOUN,f,sg,abs+3,fs
- ועלת: CONJ+NOUN,f,sg,cons
- התמיד: NOUN,m,sg,def
- ומנחתה: CONJ+NOUN,f,sg,abs+3,fs
- ונסכיהם: CONJ+NOUN,m,pl,poss3,m,pl
- כמשפטם: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs+3,mp
- לריח: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
- ניחח: ADJ,m,sg
- אשה: NOUN,f,sg,abs
- ליהוה: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,def
Parallels
- Numbers 28:3-8 (thematic): Specifies the daily (continual) burnt offering and its grain offering and libation — the same cultic institution invoked in Num 29:6 ('the continual burnt offering and its meal offering and their drink offerings').
- Numbers 28:11-15 (structural): Gives the regulations for the new moon offering and the accompanying continual offering and meal offering; Num 29:6 repeats this liturgical pattern in the context of festival offerings.
- Exodus 29:41-42 (verbal): Speaks of the continual burnt offering and describes it as 'a sweet savour unto the LORD,' language and sacrificial formula echoed verbatim in Num 29:6.
- Leviticus 23:37-38 (thematic): Summarizes required offerings for the appointed feasts (burnt, meal, and drink offerings) 'for a sweet savour unto the LORD,' paralleling Num 29's detailed festival prescriptions.
- Leviticus 1:9 (verbal): Describes a burnt offering being 'an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD,' reflecting the recurring technical phrase used in Num 29:6 to characterize sacrificial acceptability.
Alternative generated candidates
- Besides the burnt offering of the new moon and its grain offering, and the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and their libations, according to their ordinance, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
- Besides the burnt offering of the new moon and its grain offering, and the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and their libations, according to their ordinance—for a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work of labor. It shall be a day of trumpet blast for you. And you shall offer a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD: one young bull, one ram, and seven yearling lambs, without blemish.
Their grain offering shall be fine flour mixed with oil: thirteen cakes for the bull, twelve for the ram. And one cake of a tenth for each lamb—for the seven lambs. And one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you.
Besides the burnt offering of the new moon and its grain offering, and the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, with their libations according to their ordinance—these are a pleasing aroma to the LORD.