Offerings for the Day of Atonement

“You are to hold a sacred assembly on the tenth day of this seventh month and practice self-denial;[a](A) you must not do any work. Present a burnt offering to the Lord, a pleasing aroma: one young bull, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old. All your animals are to be unblemished. Their grain offering is to be of fine flour mixed with oil, six quarts[b] with the bull, four quarts[c] with the ram, 10 and two quarts[d] with each of the seven lambs. 11 Offer one male goat for a sin offering. The regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offerings are in addition to the sin offering of atonement.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 29:7 Traditionally, fasting, abstinence from sex, and refraining from personal grooming
  2. Numbers 29:9 Lit three-tenths (of an ephah)
  3. Numbers 29:9 Lit two-tenths (of an ephah)
  4. Numbers 29:10 Lit one-tenth (of an ephah)

Offerings for the Day of Atonement

“‘And on the tenth of this seventh month you will have a holy convocation, and you will afflict yourselves;[a] you will not do any work. You will present a burnt offering for Yahweh, a fragrance of appeasement: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs in their first year;[b] they will be without defect. And their grain offering will be of finely milled flour mixed with oil: three-tenths for the bull, two-tenths for the one ram, 10 one-tenth for each of the seven male lambs; 11 one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the sin offering of atonement and the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and their libations.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 29:7 Literally “you will afflict your lives” or “you will afflict your souls”
  2. Numbers 29:8 Literally “sons of a year”