A several tenth deal shalt thou offer for every lamb, throughout the seven lambs:
The verse appoints a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for each one of the seven lambs offered. It belongs to the special additional offerings for the fifteenth of Nisan, the first holy-convocation day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread after the Passover, kept with worship and without servile work through the feast week from the fourteenth to the twenty-first. It was part of the regular priestly ministration carried on day by day through the year in the holy place by the appointed Levitical priesthood, alongside the morning and evening burnt offering, incense, and sin offerings, distinct from the yearly cleansing in the most holy place. Those continual offerings for the whole congregation kept remembrance of sin constantly before the people, expressed faith in the coming Redeemer, and formed one yearly round looking forward to its antitype in the ministration of the heavenly sanctuary. The sacrifices appointed where the day is called a holy convocation show that such a day meant an actual assembly for worship, instruction, and spiritual and social religion, signalized by sacrifice where lawful. Its exact measure of a tenth for each lamb is not legally binding today, while its underlying principle remains, and as the priests once offered at the set morning and evening hours while the people prayed, families may now offer morning and evening prayer and praise since Christ's one offering has perfected the sanctified.
Words and Feast Setting
The measure commanded is a grain offering of one-tenth of an ephah of flour, of fine flour, presented for each lamb throughout the seven lambs. That tenth for every lamb belongs to the continual sanctuary offerings made for the whole congregation, which were not omitted when other offerings were made. The offering stands on the fifteenth day of Nisan, the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread coming after the Passover meal eaten on the preceding night. That fifteenth day was an annual holy day and holy convocation, when Israel gathered for worship and did no servile work. Special offerings were appointed for every day of the feast, so that priestly sacrificial duties were required even on that yearly sabbath.
The week of unleavened bread, or the Passover, runs from the fourteenth to the twenty-first of Nisan. On the fourteenth all leaven is put away, every male appears at the national sanctuary with a money offering, and at sunset lambs are slain and then roasted whole and eaten with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. The fifteenth is a holy convocation with cessation from work as a yearly ceremonial sabbath, and the twenty-first, the seventh and last day, is likewise a day of peculiar solemnity spent in cessation from labor. The five days between those two sabbaths are feast days distinguished by additional burnt offerings and sin offerings, including the offering for every lamb, observed with care laid aside and cheerfulness prevailing through the whole feast.
The directions in Numbers 28:16-25 are added requirements for the later Passover observance after the temple was built, not part of the original Passover instructions, and they were difficult to carry out in the wilderness. The same offering instruction is reckoned among the offerings for the day of first fruits and for Pentecost or the Feast of Weeks. Those accompanying burnt offerings are of the same kind as those made on the day of atonement, are incidental to the timing of each feast's principal event, and did not prevent that central event from being fulfilled on its appointed day.
Sanctuary Service and Typology
The tenth-deal of flour for each of the seven lambs is part of the additional offerings appointed for the Sabbaths of the Lord and the annual sabbaths, new moons and feasts. Those additional offerings belonged to the regular priestly ministration and the daily ministration in the first apartment, or holy place, of the earthly sanctuary, carried forward through the entire year. That ministration was performed by the Levitical priesthood, with the tribe of Levi set apart and the priesthood restricted to Aaron's family as mediators. It stood alongside the regular morning and evening burnt offering, the burning of sweet incense, and the individual sin offerings. It was distinct from the regular morning and evening offerings alone and from the yearly cleansing service in the most holy place.
The daily ministration brought together and combined all the various offerings brought from day to day into one offering for the nation. It meant one lamb together with meal and oil offered in the morning and the same at evening, doubled on the Sabbath day, with the services going on day by day through the year. By it remembrance of sin was constantly made in the sanctuary, and the beasts constantly offered showed faith in the coming Redeemer. All the daily offerings looked forward to a future antitype, as part of one entire yearly round with the yearly cleansing of the sanctuary and the great antitypical day of atonement.
These continual sanctuary offerings, including the prescribed grain portion for each of the seven lambs, were offered for the whole congregation and were not omitted when other offerings were made. Together with the sanctuary's other continual services they formed the earthly system for dealing with sin and its cleansing. The whole earthly ministration shadows forth and serves as a figure of the ministration and service of the heavenly sanctuary.
Worship Principle and Application
The sacrifices appointed for days termed a holy convocation in Numbers 28:18-25, including a tenth deal for every lamb throughout the seven lambs, prove that holy convocation in Leviticus 23:3 means actual assemblies for worship on the seventh day and not merely a proclamation of holiness. Such holy convocations were signalized by the presentation of sacrifice where lawful. In all cases they included instruction and spiritual worship and provision for social religion in connection with the blessed and sanctified day.
The regulation belongs to Israel's national or church laws regulating worship, specifying one-tenth of an ephah for each lamb in the seven-lamb offering. Its exact requirements are not legally binding today, while its underlying principles remain binding. The regular morning and evening sacrifices, including the prescribed flour offering for each lamb, marked set hours when the people prayed while the priests offered sacrifices and incense on their behalf. That sacrificial system has ended because Christ's one offering has perfected those who are sanctified, but morning and evening family prayer and praise may now rise to God as a pleasing offering.
The verse appoints a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for each one of the seven lambs offered. It belongs to the special additional offerings for the fifteenth of Nisan, the first holy-convocation day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread after the Passover, kept with worship and without servile work through the feast week from the fourteenth to the twenty-first. It was part of the regular priestly ministration carried on day by day through the year in the holy place by the appointed Levitical priesthood, alongside the morning and evening burnt offering, incense, and sin offerings, distinct from the yearly cleansing in the most holy place. Those continual offerings for the whole congregation kept remembrance of sin constantly before the people, expressed faith in the coming Redeemer, and formed one yearly round looking forward to its antitype in the ministration of the heavenly sanctuary. The sacrifices appointed where the day is called a holy convocation show that such a day meant an actual assembly for worship, instruction, and spiritual and social religion, signalized by sacrifice where lawful. Its exact measure of a tenth for each lamb is not legally binding today, while its underlying principle remains, and as the priests once offered at the set morning and evening hours while the people prayed, families may now offer morning and evening prayer and praise since Christ's one offering has perfected the sanctified.
Words and Feast Setting
The measure commanded is a grain offering of one-tenth of an ephah of flour, of fine flour, presented for each lamb throughout the seven lambs. That tenth for every lamb belongs to the continual sanctuary offerings made for the whole congregation, which were not omitted when other offerings were made. The offering stands on the fifteenth day of Nisan, the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread coming after the Passover meal eaten on the preceding night. That fifteenth day was an annual holy day and holy convocation, when Israel gathered for worship and did no servile work. Special offerings were appointed for every day of the feast, so that priestly sacrificial duties were required even on that yearly sabbath.
The week of unleavened bread, or the Passover, runs from the fourteenth to the twenty-first of Nisan. On the fourteenth all leaven is put away, every male appears at the national sanctuary with a money offering, and at sunset lambs are slain and then roasted whole and eaten with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. The fifteenth is a holy convocation with cessation from work as a yearly ceremonial sabbath, and the twenty-first, the seventh and last day, is likewise a day of peculiar solemnity spent in cessation from labor. The five days between those two sabbaths are feast days distinguished by additional burnt offerings and sin offerings, including the offering for every lamb, observed with care laid aside and cheerfulness prevailing through the whole feast.
The directions in Numbers 28:16-25 are added requirements for the later Passover observance after the temple was built, not part of the original Passover instructions, and they were difficult to carry out in the wilderness. The same offering instruction is reckoned among the offerings for the day of first fruits and for Pentecost or the Feast of Weeks. Those accompanying burnt offerings are of the same kind as those made on the day of atonement, are incidental to the timing of each feast's principal event, and did not prevent that central event from being fulfilled on its appointed day.
Sanctuary Service and Typology
The tenth-deal of flour for each of the seven lambs is part of the additional offerings appointed for the Sabbaths of the Lord and the annual sabbaths, new moons and feasts. Those additional offerings belonged to the regular priestly ministration and the daily ministration in the first apartment, or holy place, of the earthly sanctuary, carried forward through the entire year. That ministration was performed by the Levitical priesthood, with the tribe of Levi set apart and the priesthood restricted to Aaron's family as mediators. It stood alongside the regular morning and evening burnt offering, the burning of sweet incense, and the individual sin offerings. It was distinct from the regular morning and evening offerings alone and from the yearly cleansing service in the most holy place.
The daily ministration brought together and combined all the various offerings brought from day to day into one offering for the nation. It meant one lamb together with meal and oil offered in the morning and the same at evening, doubled on the Sabbath day, with the services going on day by day through the year. By it remembrance of sin was constantly made in the sanctuary, and the beasts constantly offered showed faith in the coming Redeemer. All the daily offerings looked forward to a future antitype, as part of one entire yearly round with the yearly cleansing of the sanctuary and the great antitypical day of atonement.
These continual sanctuary offerings, including the prescribed grain portion for each of the seven lambs, were offered for the whole congregation and were not omitted when other offerings were made. Together with the sanctuary's other continual services they formed the earthly system for dealing with sin and its cleansing. The whole earthly ministration shadows forth and serves as a figure of the ministration and service of the heavenly sanctuary.
Worship Principle and Application
The sacrifices appointed for days termed a holy convocation in Numbers 28:18-25, including a tenth deal for every lamb throughout the seven lambs, prove that holy convocation in Leviticus 23:3 means actual assemblies for worship on the seventh day and not merely a proclamation of holiness. Such holy convocations were signalized by the presentation of sacrifice where lawful. In all cases they included instruction and spiritual worship and provision for social religion in connection with the blessed and sanctified day.
The regulation belongs to Israel's national or church laws regulating worship, specifying one-tenth of an ephah for each lamb in the seven-lamb offering. Its exact requirements are not legally binding today, while its underlying principles remain binding. The regular morning and evening sacrifices, including the prescribed flour offering for each lamb, marked set hours when the people prayed while the priests offered sacrifices and incense on their behalf. That sacrificial system has ended because Christ's one offering has perfected those who are sanctified, but morning and evening family prayer and praise may now rise to God as a pleasing offering.