Bible Commentaries

Verses 1-31

Numbers 28-29. The Nature and Amount of the Offerings Required on various Holy Days.—The quantities prescribed for special festivals did not exhaust all the sacrifices offered upon them: on every festival the special sacrifices were supplemented by the daily offerings; on the first of the seventh month the distinctive offerings were supplemented by the offerings required for the first of each ordinary month; whilst on the tenth of the seventh month the sin offering of atonement (Leviticus 16) was supplementary to the other sacrifices here enjoined. For the "ephah" and "hin," see Numbers 15:4*.