Numbers 28:7

"It is a continual burnt offering which was ordained in Mount Sinai for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD."

Key Reflection

This verse describes a daily ritual instituted at Mount Sinai where Israel offered two male lambs each day as a continual burnt offering, symbolizing an ongoing and perpetual covenant between God and His people. The original audience would have understood this as a foundational practice that represented their commitment to maintaining an unbroken relationship with God through regular worship and sacrifice, emphasizing the importance of daily devotion and obedience even from the earliest days of the nation's formation.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

The original of the word “strong wine”שׁכרshêkāris a term usually employed to describe strong drink other than wine (Leviticus 10:9note). The Israelites in the wilderness had, in their lack of wine, substituted shechar made from barley for it. They had thus observed the spirit, though not the letter of the ordinance. The drink-offering was either poured round the foot of the altar; or on the altar, and so upon the flesh of the sacrifice by which the altar was covered (compareExodus 30:9).

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