And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
Numbers 29:28 belongs to the laws for the Feast of Tabernacles beginning on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, and it calls for an added goat as a sin offering beside the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offering. The regular burnt offering beside which it stood was the morning and evening sacrifice offered for the whole congregation every day of the year and never omitted for any other offering. It belongs to the daily ministration and first great division of the sanctuary work carried on in the holy place through the year, distinct from the yearly work in the most holy place. That daily, weekly, monthly and yearly round continually transferred sins from the people to the sanctuary, where confession, the blood of the substitute, and the mediation of the priest removed guilt from the sinner and made the sanctuary the receptacle of sin until its cleansing. Those sacrifices were typical of Christ, for the whole earthly service was the shadow and figure of His ministry in the true tabernacle after the heavenly pattern, so that what is called continual here applies with equal force to the sanctuary above.
Feast Setting and Wording
The prescription belongs to the laws for the Feast of Tabernacles, which began on the fifteenth day of the seventh month and commemorated Israel's wilderness life. It shows one of the various kinds of offerings brought to the Lord on the sixth and seventh annual sabbaths and on the intervening days. The sixth annual Sabbath was the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, and the seventh annual Sabbath was the twenty-second day of the same month closing the feast, days of holy convocation on which servile work was forbidden. It specifies a goat for a sin offering in addition to the regular continual burnt offering and its grain and drink offerings.
It is cited as one example of the added services appointed for annual sabbaths, new moons, and feasts within the year-round daily ministration. It belongs to the additional offerings appointed for Israel's annual feasts and other sacred days, part of the regular sanctuary ministry alongside the morning and evening burnt offerings. It is one item in the prescribed daily sacrifices during the Feast of Tabernacles, showing that offerings were made on the successive days of the feast, not only on its Sabbaths. It is one of about sixteen times in Numbers 28 and 29 where the morning and evening sacrifice is called the continual burnt offering.
That continual burnt offering means the sacrifice offered for the entire congregation every day of the year and never omitted on account of any other offering. Its drink offering beside the continual burnt offering with its grain offering was strong fermented wine, one fourth of a hin, over a quart, for each lamb. That wine was always poured out upon the burnt offering and not drunk freely by priests and worshipers, and the great number of such burnt offerings explains why wine is mentioned so often in connection with the sanctuary service. It stands within the instruction in Numbers 28 to 30 about offerings and vows and calls for faithfully keeping vows made to God.
Sanctuary Ministry and Meaning
The verse belongs to the special sanctuary services appointed for annual sabbaths, new moons, and feasts, distinct from the regular morning and evening offerings. It stands among the general, regular offerings that went forward continually through the year alongside individual offerings for personal guilt. It belongs with the regular morning and evening burnt offering and the morning and evening burning of sweet incense, together with the special work upon the weekly Sabbaths and upon the annual sabbaths, new moons, and feasts. That daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly round is the setting in which this added goat for a sin offering was brought.
It belongs to the daily ministration and first grand division of the earthly sanctuary ministry, the continual service in the holy place carried forward through the year by the Levitical priesthood. That first division is distinct from the yearly work in the most holy place. This daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly round meant a continual transfer of sins from the people to the sanctuary. In that year-round typical service, confession of sin, the blood of the substitute victim as the life, and the mediation of the priest combined to remove guilt from the sinner and make the sanctuary the receptacle of sin until its cleansing.
The sacrifices it prescribes were typical of Christ. The earthly service in all its appointments was the example, shadow, and figure of Christ's ministry in the true tabernacle and of the heavenly sanctuary which was its pattern. By that continual, which comprehended the entire service of the earthly sanctuary as ordained of God, before the first advent of Christ everything pertaining to sin and its cleansing met its solution. Because the earthly was a figure of the heavenly which was its pattern, the term continual applies with equal force to the sanctuary above. That holy-place ministration continued before the ministration changed to the most holy place on the tenth day of the seventh month.
The offerings were made on the successive days of the feast, not only on its Sabbaths, yet their presence on a day did not make every day a Sabbath or a shadow.
Numbers 29:28 belongs to the laws for the Feast of Tabernacles beginning on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, and it calls for an added goat as a sin offering beside the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offering. The regular burnt offering beside which it stood was the morning and evening sacrifice offered for the whole congregation every day of the year and never omitted for any other offering. It belongs to the daily ministration and first great division of the sanctuary work carried on in the holy place through the year, distinct from the yearly work in the most holy place. That daily, weekly, monthly and yearly round continually transferred sins from the people to the sanctuary, where confession, the blood of the substitute, and the mediation of the priest removed guilt from the sinner and made the sanctuary the receptacle of sin until its cleansing. Those sacrifices were typical of Christ, for the whole earthly service was the shadow and figure of His ministry in the true tabernacle after the heavenly pattern, so that what is called continual here applies with equal force to the sanctuary above.
Feast Setting and Wording
The prescription belongs to the laws for the Feast of Tabernacles, which began on the fifteenth day of the seventh month and commemorated Israel's wilderness life. It shows one of the various kinds of offerings brought to the Lord on the sixth and seventh annual sabbaths and on the intervening days. The sixth annual Sabbath was the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, and the seventh annual Sabbath was the twenty-second day of the same month closing the feast, days of holy convocation on which servile work was forbidden. It specifies a goat for a sin offering in addition to the regular continual burnt offering and its grain and drink offerings.
It is cited as one example of the added services appointed for annual sabbaths, new moons, and feasts within the year-round daily ministration. It belongs to the additional offerings appointed for Israel's annual feasts and other sacred days, part of the regular sanctuary ministry alongside the morning and evening burnt offerings. It is one item in the prescribed daily sacrifices during the Feast of Tabernacles, showing that offerings were made on the successive days of the feast, not only on its Sabbaths. It is one of about sixteen times in Numbers 28 and 29 where the morning and evening sacrifice is called the continual burnt offering.
That continual burnt offering means the sacrifice offered for the entire congregation every day of the year and never omitted on account of any other offering. Its drink offering beside the continual burnt offering with its grain offering was strong fermented wine, one fourth of a hin, over a quart, for each lamb. That wine was always poured out upon the burnt offering and not drunk freely by priests and worshipers, and the great number of such burnt offerings explains why wine is mentioned so often in connection with the sanctuary service. It stands within the instruction in Numbers 28 to 30 about offerings and vows and calls for faithfully keeping vows made to God.
Sanctuary Ministry and Meaning
The verse belongs to the special sanctuary services appointed for annual sabbaths, new moons, and feasts, distinct from the regular morning and evening offerings. It stands among the general, regular offerings that went forward continually through the year alongside individual offerings for personal guilt. It belongs with the regular morning and evening burnt offering and the morning and evening burning of sweet incense, together with the special work upon the weekly Sabbaths and upon the annual sabbaths, new moons, and feasts. That daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly round is the setting in which this added goat for a sin offering was brought.
It belongs to the daily ministration and first grand division of the earthly sanctuary ministry, the continual service in the holy place carried forward through the year by the Levitical priesthood. That first division is distinct from the yearly work in the most holy place. This daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly round meant a continual transfer of sins from the people to the sanctuary. In that year-round typical service, confession of sin, the blood of the substitute victim as the life, and the mediation of the priest combined to remove guilt from the sinner and make the sanctuary the receptacle of sin until its cleansing.
The sacrifices it prescribes were typical of Christ. The earthly service in all its appointments was the example, shadow, and figure of Christ's ministry in the true tabernacle and of the heavenly sanctuary which was its pattern. By that continual, which comprehended the entire service of the earthly sanctuary as ordained of God, before the first advent of Christ everything pertaining to sin and its cleansing met its solution. Because the earthly was a figure of the heavenly which was its pattern, the term continual applies with equal force to the sanctuary above. That holy-place ministration continued before the ministration changed to the most holy place on the tenth day of the seventh month.
The offerings were made on the successive days of the feast, not only on its Sabbaths, yet their presence on a day did not make every day a Sabbath or a shadow.