And one kid of the goats, to make an atonement for you.
The verse appoints one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for Israel, as part of the special additional offerings for the Feast of Weeks alongside the festival offerings. That feast is the one-day fiftieth-day Pentecost, also called the day of firstfruits, marking the close of the grain harvest and commemorating the giving of the law at Sinai. It belongs to the regular cycle of appointed public sacrifices for Sabbaths, new moons, and annual feasts, placed alongside the continual daily service as part of the regular priestly ministry in the earthly sanctuary. The whole sacrificial system containing this offering served as a pattern, figure, and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary and its ministry, and all these daily offerings looked forward to a future antitype to be completed by the yearly Day of Atonement. The grand event of each typical day meets its antitype exactly on time on the type's appointed day, and that antitype may then continue beyond that day and extend forward a great distance, while the burnt offerings and accompanying kid for atonement are mere preliminary accompanying details.
Feast and Sanctuary Setting
The verse appoints one kid of the goats, one male goat, as a sin offering to make an atonement for Israel, for the people. It belongs to the special additional offerings for the Feast of Weeks, Pentecost, offered alongside the festival offerings. Pentecost is the one-day Feast of Weeks. It is the fiftieth-day feast, also called the day of first fruits, marking the close of the grain harvest and commemorating the giving of the law at Sinai.
The verse stands within the regular cycle of appointed public sacrifices for Sabbaths, new moons, and annual feasts. Those special offerings for new moons and annual feasts are placed alongside the regular daily service in the earthly sanctuary. They formed part of the regular sanctuary service and the regular priestly ministry there, among the additional services appointed for Israel's annual feasts.
The daily ministration brought together and combined the various individual offerings from day to day into one offering for the nation. One lamb together with meal and oil was offered in the morning and the same at evening, doubled on the Sabbath day, continuing day by day through the year. This work went on continually through the year together with the regular morning and evening burnt offering, the burning of sweet incense, and the individual offerings by which sins were transferred to the sanctuary. The kid of the goats to make an atonement was part of this continual service and belonged to the daily ministration in the holy place accomplished by the Levitical priesthood. In it remembrance of sin was constantly made in the sanctuary, and the slain beasts showed the faith of those who brought them in the Redeemer to come.
Type and Antitype Timing
The kid of the goats for atonement stands among the burnt offerings appointed for the day of first fruits and the Feast of Weeks, and it is the same kind of work as that appointed for the Day of Atonement. Those burnt offerings with their accompanying kid are mere preliminary and circumstantial accompanying details of the day. They do not prove that the day's central sanctuary work took place before the high priest entered the most holy place. The grand event of each typical day — the Passover, the day of first fruits, Pentecost, and the tenth day of the seventh month — meets its antitype exactly on time on the type's appointed day. That antitype, once begun on its appointed day, may then continue beyond that day and extend forward a great distance, so the like offerings on the tenth day of the seventh month do not delay the commencement then of the antitype of the grand work in the holiest.
The kid to make an atonement belongs to the daily ministration that gathered the various individual offerings together day by day into one offering for the nation. All these daily offerings looked forward to a future antitype. That future antitype was to be completed by the yearly Day of Atonement.
Heavenly Pattern and Fulfillment
The kid of the goats for atonement belongs within the appointed offerings for Sabbaths, annual sabbaths, new moons, and feasts that made up the regular service of the earthly sanctuary. It was one of the additional offerings of the daily ministration in the holy place, carried on continually through the year by the Levitical priesthood together with the regular morning and evening burnt offering, the burning of sweet incense, and the individual offerings by which sins were transferred to the sanctuary. That whole sacrificial system, with its continual provision concerning sin and its cleansing, served as a pattern, figure, and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary and its ministry.
Through these regular public sacrifices appointed for the annual feasts, alongside the continual daily offerings, Israel worshiped and sought atonement. The services in which the goat was offered to make atonement for the people were continual and addressed sin and its cleansing.
As part of the church laws regulating worship, the specific sacrificial requirements were binding on Israel as a nation and church, not as laws upon later peoples, though their underlying principles remain binding. These sacrifices belonged to the Jewish system of worship that has passed away, since Christ's one offering has perfected those who are sanctified.
The verse appoints one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for Israel, as part of the special additional offerings for the Feast of Weeks alongside the festival offerings. That feast is the one-day fiftieth-day Pentecost, also called the day of firstfruits, marking the close of the grain harvest and commemorating the giving of the law at Sinai. It belongs to the regular cycle of appointed public sacrifices for Sabbaths, new moons, and annual feasts, placed alongside the continual daily service as part of the regular priestly ministry in the earthly sanctuary. The whole sacrificial system containing this offering served as a pattern, figure, and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary and its ministry, and all these daily offerings looked forward to a future antitype to be completed by the yearly Day of Atonement. The grand event of each typical day meets its antitype exactly on time on the type's appointed day, and that antitype may then continue beyond that day and extend forward a great distance, while the burnt offerings and accompanying kid for atonement are mere preliminary accompanying details.
Feast and Sanctuary Setting
The verse appoints one kid of the goats, one male goat, as a sin offering to make an atonement for Israel, for the people. It belongs to the special additional offerings for the Feast of Weeks, Pentecost, offered alongside the festival offerings. Pentecost is the one-day Feast of Weeks. It is the fiftieth-day feast, also called the day of first fruits, marking the close of the grain harvest and commemorating the giving of the law at Sinai.
The verse stands within the regular cycle of appointed public sacrifices for Sabbaths, new moons, and annual feasts. Those special offerings for new moons and annual feasts are placed alongside the regular daily service in the earthly sanctuary. They formed part of the regular sanctuary service and the regular priestly ministry there, among the additional services appointed for Israel's annual feasts.
The daily ministration brought together and combined the various individual offerings from day to day into one offering for the nation. One lamb together with meal and oil was offered in the morning and the same at evening, doubled on the Sabbath day, continuing day by day through the year. This work went on continually through the year together with the regular morning and evening burnt offering, the burning of sweet incense, and the individual offerings by which sins were transferred to the sanctuary. The kid of the goats to make an atonement was part of this continual service and belonged to the daily ministration in the holy place accomplished by the Levitical priesthood. In it remembrance of sin was constantly made in the sanctuary, and the slain beasts showed the faith of those who brought them in the Redeemer to come.
Type and Antitype Timing
The kid of the goats for atonement stands among the burnt offerings appointed for the day of first fruits and the Feast of Weeks, and it is the same kind of work as that appointed for the Day of Atonement. Those burnt offerings with their accompanying kid are mere preliminary and circumstantial accompanying details of the day. They do not prove that the day's central sanctuary work took place before the high priest entered the most holy place. The grand event of each typical day — the Passover, the day of first fruits, Pentecost, and the tenth day of the seventh month — meets its antitype exactly on time on the type's appointed day. That antitype, once begun on its appointed day, may then continue beyond that day and extend forward a great distance, so the like offerings on the tenth day of the seventh month do not delay the commencement then of the antitype of the grand work in the holiest.
The kid to make an atonement belongs to the daily ministration that gathered the various individual offerings together day by day into one offering for the nation. All these daily offerings looked forward to a future antitype. That future antitype was to be completed by the yearly Day of Atonement.
Heavenly Pattern and Fulfillment
The kid of the goats for atonement belongs within the appointed offerings for Sabbaths, annual sabbaths, new moons, and feasts that made up the regular service of the earthly sanctuary. It was one of the additional offerings of the daily ministration in the holy place, carried on continually through the year by the Levitical priesthood together with the regular morning and evening burnt offering, the burning of sweet incense, and the individual offerings by which sins were transferred to the sanctuary. That whole sacrificial system, with its continual provision concerning sin and its cleansing, served as a pattern, figure, and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary and its ministry.
Through these regular public sacrifices appointed for the annual feasts, alongside the continual daily offerings, Israel worshiped and sought atonement. The services in which the goat was offered to make atonement for the people were continual and addressed sin and its cleansing.
As part of the church laws regulating worship, the specific sacrificial requirements were binding on Israel as a nation and church, not as laws upon later peoples, though their underlying principles remain binding. These sacrifices belonged to the Jewish system of worship that has passed away, since Christ's one offering has perfected those who are sanctified.