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Offerings for the Festival of Trumpets

29 “Celebrate the Festival of Trumpets each year on the first day of the appointed month in early autumn.[a] You must call an official day for holy assembly, and you may do no ordinary work. On that day you must present a burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord. It will consist of one young bull, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all with no defects. These must be accompanied by grain offerings of choice flour moistened with olive oil—six quarts[b] with the bull, four quarts[c] with the ram, and two quarts[d] with each of the seven lambs. In addition, you must sacrifice a male goat as a sin offering to purify yourselves and make yourselves right with the Lord.[e] These special sacrifices are in addition to your regular monthly and daily burnt offerings, and they must be given with their prescribed grain offerings and liquid offerings. These offerings are given as a special gift to the Lord, a pleasing aroma to him.

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Footnotes

  1. 29:1 Hebrew the first day of the seventh month. This day in the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar occurred in September or October. This festival is celebrated today as Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year.
  2. 29:3a Hebrew 3⁄10 of an ephah [6.6 liters]; also in 29:9, 14.
  3. 29:3b Hebrew 2⁄10 of an ephah [4.4 liters]; also in 29:9, 14.
  4. 29:4 Hebrew 1⁄10 of an ephah [2.2 liters]; also in 29:10, 15.
  5. 29:5 Or to make atonement for yourselves.

Blowing of the trumpet

29 The first day of the seventh month[a] will be a holy occasion for you. You will not do any job-related work. It will be for you a day of the trumpet’s sound. You will offer an entirely burned offering as a soothing smell to the Lord: one bull from the herd, one ram, and seven male lambs one year old, all flawless. Their grain offering will be fine flour mixed with oil, three-tenths for the bull, two-tenths for the ram, and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs. There will be one male goat for a purification offering to seek reconciliation for yourselves. This is in addition to the monthly entirely burned offering with its grain offering, and the regular entirely burned offering with its grain offering and drink offerings as prescribed. It will be a soothing smell, a food gift to the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 29:1 September–October, Tishrei