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 *.