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Numbers 15:8 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 8. 8And when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace offerings unto the LORD:
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Role in This Section
Numbers 15:8 within “Future Land Offerings Include One Law for the Resident,” adds this material detail to the unit's ordered remembrance; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: when you preparest a bullock for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace offerings to the LORD.
Read It With
- Numbers 15:1–16
Read Numbers 15:8 with 15:1–16. It within “Future Land Offerings Include One Law for the Resident,” adds this material detail to the unit's ordered remembrance; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: when you preparest a bullock for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace offerings to the LORD. The complete unit establishes this contextual meaning: After the failed-entry crisis, the LORD speaks as if Israel will enter the land and details grain and drink accompaniments scaled to lamb, ram, or bull offerings, applying one statute to native and resident outsider.
Why It Needs Context
Numbers 15:8 within “Future Land Offerings Include One Law for the Resident,” adds this material detail to the unit's ordered remembrance; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: when you preparest a bullock for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace offerings to the LORD. Its responsible force depends on 15:1–16; isolated from “Future Land Offerings Include One Law for the Resident,” the verse's actor, action, reason, object, or transition could be mistaken for independent teaching.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Numbers 15:1–16 — Future Land Offerings Include One Law for the ResidentSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Numbers 15:1–16, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Numbers
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project
Open Scriptures, release 2.2, 2021
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, numbers, speeches, poems, legal clauses, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Num.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 15:1–16
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