And on the fifth day nine bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:
Numbers 29:26 appoints nine bullocks, two rams, and fourteen spotless yearling lambs with their drink offerings as the burnt offering for the fifth day of the seven-day Feast of Tabernacles. That feast began on the fifteenth day of the seventh month as a national thanksgiving for harvest and memorial of wilderness pilgrimage, when the people left their houses to dwell in booths of green branches, palm, thick trees, and willows. It belongs to the continual yearly service carried on by the priests in the holy place, distinct from the yearly work of the high priest alone in the most holy place on the tenth day for atonement and cleansing. Those daily offerings during the feast, like those offered on Sabbaths, were typical of Christ, but their presence on a day did not make every such day a Sabbath or make the weekly Sabbath a shadow. It is one of about sixteen places where the never-omitted morning and evening sacrifice is called the continual burnt offering, showing that the continual taken away in Daniel 8 comprehends the whole divinely appointed earthly service which is the example and shadow of the continual ministry of the heavenly sanctuary.
Feast of Tabernacles Setting
Numbers 29:26 prescribes the offerings for the fifth day of the seven-day Feast of Tabernacles, the national thanksgiving feast that began on the fifteenth day of the seventh month. That feast gave thanks to God for the earth's harvest and recalled Israel's wilderness wanderings. It commemorated Israel's pilgrim life in the wilderness, when the people left their houses to dwell in booths made of green branches, palm branches, boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook.
The feast, the third annual feast of the Jews, was kept from the fifteenth day of the seventh month Tisri through the twenty-second day. It was framed by two annual sabbaths that are days of holy convocation on which servile work is forbidden. The sixth annual sabbath is the first day of the feast on the fifteenth day of the seventh month opening the feast, and the seventh annual sabbath is the twenty-second day of the same month closing it, showing the various kinds of offerings brought to the Lord on the annual sabbaths and on the days between them. Its obligatory observance as part of the ceremonial law ended at the crucifixion of Christ.
The fifth-day offering was nine bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without spot, showing how great the number of burnt offerings was. The wine of the drink-offering was always poured out upon the burnt offerings and was not drunk freely by priests and worshipers. Over a quart of strong wine was offered with each lamb, and there were drink-offerings for every burnt offering, which explains why wine is mentioned so often in connection with the sanctuary service. The verse stands among the ceremonial laws and regulations recorded in chapters 27-30, which are readily understood.
Earthly Sanctuary Ministration
The verse prescribes one of the additional and special services appointed for Israel's annual feasts and holy days. It belongs to the prescribed special offerings for those feasts within the regular yearly ministration of the earthly sanctuary. That regular ministration continued through the year alongside the daily sacrifices, the Sabbath offerings, the annual sabbaths, and the new-moon offerings.
It stands in the first grand division of the earthly sanctuary ministration, the continual service in the holy place carried on by the priests through the year. That daily ministration in the holy place was accomplished by the Levitical order of priesthood. It stood alongside the regular morning and evening burnt offering, the burning of sweet incense, the Sabbath offerings, the offerings for the Sabbaths of the Lord and the annual sabbaths, the new moons and feasts, and the offerings for individuals, including individual offerings for sin.
That continual holy-place work is distinct from the second division, the yearly work performed by the high priest alone in the most holy place on the tenth day of the seventh month for atonement and cleansing. Like all the work connected with the earthly tabernacle, this service is the example and shadow of a like work in the heavenly sanctuary which is its pattern.
Prophetic Doctrinal Applications
The fifth-day prescription of nine bullocks, two rams, and fourteen first-year lambs without spot belongs to the burnt offerings appointed for the Feast of Tabernacles, not to the offerings made on the Day of Atonement on the tenth day of the seventh month. Scripture does not state whether the offerings of the tenth day came before or after the high priest's work alone in the most holy place. The schedule of offerings in Numbers 29 therefore cannot prove that the Day of Atonement offerings preceded that work, nor that a lengthy preliminary work had to come before the cleansing of the sanctuary.
Customary offerings do not fix the time of a day's central event, for the antitype of a type begins on the type's appointed day and may continue beyond it. The daily sacrifices required during the Feast of Tabernacles, like the sacrifices offered on Sabbaths, were typical of Christ. Their presence on a day did not make every such day a Sabbath, nor did it make the weekly Sabbath itself a shadow.
The verse is one of about sixteen places in Numbers 28-29 where the morning and evening sacrifices, offered for the whole congregation every day of the year and never omitted on account of any other offerings, are called the continual burnt offering. That continual taken away in Daniel 8 comprehends the entire divinely ordained service of the earthly sanctuary. Since that earthly service in all its appointments is the type and figure of the heavenly sanctuary which is its pattern, the term continual applies with equal force to the continual ministry of the heavenly sanctuary.
Numbers 29:26 appoints nine bullocks, two rams, and fourteen spotless yearling lambs with their drink offerings as the burnt offering for the fifth day of the seven-day Feast of Tabernacles. That feast began on the fifteenth day of the seventh month as a national thanksgiving for harvest and memorial of wilderness pilgrimage, when the people left their houses to dwell in booths of green branches, palm, thick trees, and willows. It belongs to the continual yearly service carried on by the priests in the holy place, distinct from the yearly work of the high priest alone in the most holy place on the tenth day for atonement and cleansing. Those daily offerings during the feast, like those offered on Sabbaths, were typical of Christ, but their presence on a day did not make every such day a Sabbath or make the weekly Sabbath a shadow. It is one of about sixteen places where the never-omitted morning and evening sacrifice is called the continual burnt offering, showing that the continual taken away in Daniel 8 comprehends the whole divinely appointed earthly service which is the example and shadow of the continual ministry of the heavenly sanctuary.
Feast of Tabernacles Setting
Numbers 29:26 prescribes the offerings for the fifth day of the seven-day Feast of Tabernacles, the national thanksgiving feast that began on the fifteenth day of the seventh month. That feast gave thanks to God for the earth's harvest and recalled Israel's wilderness wanderings. It commemorated Israel's pilgrim life in the wilderness, when the people left their houses to dwell in booths made of green branches, palm branches, boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook.
The feast, the third annual feast of the Jews, was kept from the fifteenth day of the seventh month Tisri through the twenty-second day. It was framed by two annual sabbaths that are days of holy convocation on which servile work is forbidden. The sixth annual sabbath is the first day of the feast on the fifteenth day of the seventh month opening the feast, and the seventh annual sabbath is the twenty-second day of the same month closing it, showing the various kinds of offerings brought to the Lord on the annual sabbaths and on the days between them. Its obligatory observance as part of the ceremonial law ended at the crucifixion of Christ.
The fifth-day offering was nine bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without spot, showing how great the number of burnt offerings was. The wine of the drink-offering was always poured out upon the burnt offerings and was not drunk freely by priests and worshipers. Over a quart of strong wine was offered with each lamb, and there were drink-offerings for every burnt offering, which explains why wine is mentioned so often in connection with the sanctuary service. The verse stands among the ceremonial laws and regulations recorded in chapters 27-30, which are readily understood.
Earthly Sanctuary Ministration
The verse prescribes one of the additional and special services appointed for Israel's annual feasts and holy days. It belongs to the prescribed special offerings for those feasts within the regular yearly ministration of the earthly sanctuary. That regular ministration continued through the year alongside the daily sacrifices, the Sabbath offerings, the annual sabbaths, and the new-moon offerings.
It stands in the first grand division of the earthly sanctuary ministration, the continual service in the holy place carried on by the priests through the year. That daily ministration in the holy place was accomplished by the Levitical order of priesthood. It stood alongside the regular morning and evening burnt offering, the burning of sweet incense, the Sabbath offerings, the offerings for the Sabbaths of the Lord and the annual sabbaths, the new moons and feasts, and the offerings for individuals, including individual offerings for sin.
That continual holy-place work is distinct from the second division, the yearly work performed by the high priest alone in the most holy place on the tenth day of the seventh month for atonement and cleansing. Like all the work connected with the earthly tabernacle, this service is the example and shadow of a like work in the heavenly sanctuary which is its pattern.
Prophetic Doctrinal Applications
The fifth-day prescription of nine bullocks, two rams, and fourteen first-year lambs without spot belongs to the burnt offerings appointed for the Feast of Tabernacles, not to the offerings made on the Day of Atonement on the tenth day of the seventh month. Scripture does not state whether the offerings of the tenth day came before or after the high priest's work alone in the most holy place. The schedule of offerings in Numbers 29 therefore cannot prove that the Day of Atonement offerings preceded that work, nor that a lengthy preliminary work had to come before the cleansing of the sanctuary.
Customary offerings do not fix the time of a day's central event, for the antitype of a type begins on the type's appointed day and may continue beyond it. The daily sacrifices required during the Feast of Tabernacles, like the sacrifices offered on Sabbaths, were typical of Christ. Their presence on a day did not make every such day a Sabbath, nor did it make the weekly Sabbath itself a shadow.
The verse is one of about sixteen places in Numbers 28-29 where the morning and evening sacrifices, offered for the whole congregation every day of the year and never omitted on account of any other offerings, are called the continual burnt offering. That continual taken away in Daniel 8 comprehends the entire divinely ordained service of the earthly sanctuary. Since that earthly service in all its appointments is the type and figure of the heavenly sanctuary which is its pattern, the term continual applies with equal force to the continual ministry of the heavenly sanctuary.