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Numbers 28

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Numbers 28 lays out Israel’s regular sacrificial calendar: daily burnt offerings, additional Sabbath offerings, monthly offerings at the beginning of months, Passover and unleavened-bread offerings, and offerings for the feast of weeks. The chapter stresses regularity and order. Israel is approaching life in the land, and worship is to be structured around repeated remembrance and offerings rather than occasional impulse.

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Before you read Numbers 28

Coming from

Numbers 27 appointed Joshua and addressed future inheritance.

In this chapter

The chapter sets the daily, weekly, monthly, Passover, unleavened-bread, and firstfruits sacrificial schedule.

Leads into

Numbers 29 continues the calendar with seventh-month observances: trumpets, atonement, and tabernacles.

Key understandingExplore deeper

Numbers 28 does not merely repeat earlier feast laws; it specifies the regular sacrificial schedule the new generation is to maintain as it approaches settled life in the land. The continual burnt offering anchors each day, with added offerings for Sabbaths, new moons, Passover and unleavened bread, and the feast of weeks. Special days add to rather than cancel the regular offering. The repeated quantities are practical covenant instructions, not invitations to construct hidden numerical codes. The whole schedule belongs to Israel's Mosaic worship system.

Major truths in this chapterExplore deeper

Truth 1

Worship in Israel includes a disciplined rhythm of daily, weekly, monthly, and annual offerings.

Truth 2

Special feast offerings are added to, not substituted for, the regular daily offering.

Truth 3

Passover and firstfruits connect Israel’s worship calendar to redemption and harvest.

Truth 4

Approaching Canaan does not reduce the centrality of worship.

Connections to the rest of ScriptureExplore deeper

Connection 1

Exodus 12 establishes Passover.

Connection 2

Leviticus 23 gives the broader feast calendar.

Connection 3

Numbers 29 continues this chapter’s sacrificial calendar.

Connection 4

Colossians 2:16–17 later calls holy days and sabbaths shadows in relation to Christ.

What is clear, and where care is neededExplore deeper

Keep this clear 1

These sacrifice schedules belong to Israel under the Mosaic covenant and are not required Christian worship offerings.

Keep this clear 2

The detailed numbers should be read as exact ritual instructions rather than hidden numerological codes unless Scripture itself indicates symbolism.

Keep this clear 3

Regular worship is valuable, but ritual repetition cannot substitute for faith and obedience.

Read Numbers 28 watching for…

The twice-daily continual burnt offering.

What is added on Sabbaths and new moons.

The Passover dates.

The phrase indicating offerings are beside the continual burnt offering.

Chapter outline5 sections

1-8Daily morning and evening offerings are appointed 9-10Additional offerings are appointed for the sabbath 11-15Offerings are appointed for the beginnings of months 16-25Passover and unleavened bread offerings are appointed 26-31Offerings are appointed for the day of firstfruits

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

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.

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.

The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and the other lamb shalt thou offer at even;

And a tenth part of an ephah of flour for a meat offering, mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil.

It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.

And the drink offering thereof shall be the fourth part of an hin for the one lamb: in the holy place shalt thou cause the strong wine to be poured unto the LORD for a drink offering.

And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, thou shalt offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.

And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year without spot, and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and the drink offering thereof:

This is the burnt offering of every sabbath, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.

And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot;

And three tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, for one bullock; and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, for one ram;

And a several tenth deal of flour mingled with oil for a meat offering unto one lamb; for a burnt offering of a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.

And their drink offerings shall be half an hin of wine unto a bullock, and the third part of an hin unto a ram, and a fourth part of an hin unto a lamb: this is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year.

And one kid of the goats for a sin offering unto the LORD shall be offered, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.

And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD.

And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.

In the first day shall be an holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work therein:

But ye shall offer a sacrifice made by fire for a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, and seven lambs of the first year: they shall be unto you without blemish:

And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil: three tenth deals shall ye offer for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram;

A several tenth deal shalt thou offer for every lamb, throughout the seven lambs:

And one goat for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you.

Ye shall offer these beside the burnt offering in the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering.

After this manner ye shall offer daily, throughout the seven days, the meat of the sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: it shall be offered beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.

And on the seventh day ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work.

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:

But ye shall offer the burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the LORD; two young bullocks, one ram, seven lambs of the first year;

And their meat offering of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto one bullock, two tenth deals unto one ram,

A several tenth deal unto one lamb, throughout the seven lambs;

And one kid of the goats, to make an atonement for you.

Ye shall offer them beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, (they shall be unto you without blemish) and their drink offerings.

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