Read the passage and its setting
Numbers 28:16–25, King James Version
Italic words were supplied in the English translation for clarity.
Numbers 28:16–25
Passover and Unleavened Bread Receive Daily Festival Offerings
The Main Point
Passover begins on the fourteenth day, followed by seven days of unleavened bread, assemblies without ordinary work on first and seventh days, and repeated bulls, ram, lambs, goat, and daily offerings.
What Is Happening Here?
Passover begins on the fourteenth day, followed by seven days of unleavened bread, assemblies without ordinary work on first and seventh days, and repeated bulls, ram, lambs, goat, and daily offerings.
What Came Before—and What Comes Next?
New Moons Add Bulls, a Ram, Lambs, and a Goat has just established this movement: At each month's beginning, Israel offers two bulls, one ram, seven lambs with scaled grain and drink offerings, and a goat for purification in addition to the regular offering.
Firstfruits and Weeks Add a Holy Assembly continues the book: At the firstfruits day when a new grain gift is offered, Israel holds a holy assembly without ordinary work and brings the prescribed animals, grain, drink, and goat in addition to the daily offering.
Follow the Movement from Sinai Camp to Moab Inheritance
See why this section appears here and how the author's thought unit leads to its meaning.
Why Is This Passage Here?
Passover and Unleavened Bread Receive Daily Festival Offerings advances Numbers from Sinai's ordered camp through wilderness failure and generational death toward Moab, succession, and land-facing law. Its particular movement is this: Passover begins on the fourteenth day, followed by seven days of unleavened bread, assemblies without ordinary work on first and seventh days, and repeated bulls, ram, lambs, goat, and daily offerings.
Follow the List, Law, Journey, Speech, or Scene
Passover and the seven-day festival are calendrically distinguished.
Daily additional offerings and boundary assemblies structure the week.
What Is the Author Saying?
Why This Interpretation Fits
Literary movement
Passover and the seven-day festival are calendrically distinguished. Daily additional offerings and boundary assemblies structure the week.
Contextual judgment
Passover begins on the fourteenth day, followed by seven days of unleavened bread, assemblies without ordinary work on first and seventh days, and repeated bulls, ram, lambs, goat, and daily offerings. The calendar does not erase living Jewish interpretation, authorize Christian replacement claims, or supply an end-times timetable.
Understand the Meaning and Its Boundaries
Clarify the words that matter and keep the conclusion no broader than the passage allows.
Words That Matter
appointed time / regular
מוֹעֵד / תָּמִיד · moed / tamid
The offering calendar coordinates regular worship; it does not encode dates for future geopolitical events.
What the Passage Is Not Saying
Reading Numbers 28:16–25 in its covenantal and literary setting rules out these uses:
The calendar does not erase living Jewish interpretation, authorize Christian replacement claims, or supply an end-times timetable.
This unit does not turn Israel's camp, priesthood, purity system, vow, war, land, penalty, census, or leadership arrangement into a direct constitution for a modern state, church, family, or military.
This passage must not be used for antisemitism, supersessionism, ethnic stigma, nationalism, genocide, conquest, misogyny, abuse, coercive obedience, date-setting, prosperity guarantees, or cruelty toward vulnerable people.
Context check: Passover begins on the fourteenth day, followed by seven days of unleavened bread, assemblies without ordinary work on first and seventh days, and repeated bulls, ram, lambs, goat, and daily offerings.
What Remains True Today
Faithful practice should join truthful memory, proportionate commitment, transparent resources, rest, gratitude, and access rather than spectacle or coercion. This unit also keeps the following boundary explicit: The calendar does not erase living Jewish interpretation, authorize Christian replacement claims, or supply an end-times timetable.
Respond and Remember
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How This Should Shape Us
Why these applications follow
Passover and the seven-day festival are calendrically distinguished. Daily additional offerings and boundary assemblies structure the week.
Passover begins on the fourteenth day, followed by seven days of unleavened bread, assemblies without ordinary work on first and seventh days, and repeated bulls, ram, lambs, goat, and daily offerings.
Faithful practice should join truthful memory, proportionate commitment, transparent resources, rest, gratitude, and access rather than spectacle or coercion. This unit also keeps the following boundary explicit: The calendar does not erase living Jewish interpretation, authorize Christian replacement claims, or supply an end-times timetable.
How should this shape us today?
Review whether a community's repeated practices actually serve memory, repair, belonging, and honest stewardship, and remove burdens that depend on pressure or hidden finance. For “Passover and Unleavened Bread Receive Daily Festival Offerings,” begin with the actors, power differences, and consequences named in this exact unit rather than borrowing a slogan from a neighboring verse.
A Concrete Example
For a recurring observance, publish its purpose, cost, roles, accessibility provisions, and opt-out path, then evaluate whether repetition deepens understanding or merely preserves habit. In this case, explicitly test the decision against this boundary: The calendar does not erase living Jewish interpretation, authorize Christian replacement claims, or supply an end-times timetable.
Teach It Back
Explain Numbers 28:16–25 in your own words. Include its place in Moses' speeches or the final narrative, both movements, one material uncertainty, one affected person or group, and one use the complete context rules out.
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Literary movement
Passover and the seven-day festival are calendrically distinguished. Daily additional offerings and boundary assemblies structure the week.
Contextual judgment
Passover begins on the fourteenth day, followed by seven days of unleavened bread, assemblies without ordinary work on first and seventh days, and repeated bulls, ram, lambs, goat, and daily offerings. The calendar does not erase living Jewish interpretation, authorize Christian replacement claims, or supply an end-times timetable.
Original-language wording and grammarTechnical detail appears only where it helps
appointed time / regular
The offering calendar coordinates regular worship; it does not encode dates for future geopolitical events.
How certain? probableWhat the first readers would have understoodRelevant history and culture
Covenantal rhetoric, law, and historical setting
Offerings, festivals, lamps, dedication gifts, Passover, trumpets, tassels, red-heifer water, and regular sacrifices order sanctuary, time, memory, and material support in an agrarian community. Repetition marks completeness more than novelty. For this unit, reconstruction remains bounded by the received movement: Passover begins on the fourteenth day, followed by seven days of unleavened bread, assemblies without ordinary work on first and seventh days, and repeated bulls, ram, lambs, goat, and daily offerings.
How certain? probableWhy translations sometimes differMaterial translation choices
KJV wording and material alternatives
The pinned KJV wording of 28:16-25 is read with the complete Masoretic record and NET translator notes. A material chapter expression is “appointed time / regular” (moed / tamid): The offering calendar coordinates regular worship; it does not encode dates for future geopolitical events.
How certain? probableEarlier Scripture and inherited backgroundSupported quotations, allusions, and inherited ideas
Numbers within Torah and Jewish Scripture
Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Psalms, prophets, and later Jewish Scripture are compared where they frame, retell, or receive this unit. Final-form relationships remain primary; compositional, chronological, and historical alternatives are stated rather than harmonized away.
How certain? strongHow this connects with the rest of ScriptureThe passage's own meaning remains primary
Canonical relationships after the first horizon
Exodus and Leviticus establish tabernacle and sacrifice; Numbers assigns mobile, calendrical, and land-facing forms; Deuteronomy later presents related practices differently. Comparison should preserve difference and continuing Jewish reception.
How certain? probableTextual variantsManuscript differences only when they affect meaning
Textual witnesses and reconstruction limits
The pinned KJV remains the displayed text. The reviewed Masoretic record and NET notes disclose material wording, number, name, syntax, and witness questions where present; no variant is silently substituted and textual silence is not converted into certainty.
How certain? probableWhere careful interpreters disagreeThe strongest options and their difficulties
Where do careful interpreters disagree?
Best judgment: Interpreters debate ritual function, chronology, source layers, historical performance, symbolic systems, and the relationship among Torah calendars. The recorded sequence is firm; reconstructed origins and universal symbolism are not. For “Passover and Unleavened Bread Receive Daily Festival Offerings,” confidence is strongest in the received unit's stated sequence and literary function; source, date, demography, geography, mechanism, archaeology, and historical reconstruction remain probable, plausible, or uncertain as the evidence warrants.
How certain? probableTheology that emerges from this passageConclusions drawn after reading the complete section
Theological contribution
Worship orders time, resources, memory, gratitude, holiness, and communal representation rather than operating as magic or private spiritual achievement. This unit contributes that claim without making its severe action, unequal institution, or narrator-approved judgment ethically easy: Passover begins on the fourteenth day, followed by seven days of unleavened bread, assemblies without ordinary work on first and seventh days, and repeated bulls, ram, lambs, goat, and daily offerings.
How certain? strongTheological contribution
Across Numbers this unit contributes to the covenantal movement from Moab speeches through law, public choice, succession, song, blessing, and Moses' death: Passover begins on the fourteenth day, followed by seven days of unleavened bread, assemblies without ordinary work on first and seventh days, and repeated bulls, ram, lambs, goat, and daily offerings.
How certain? strongCommon ways this passage gets misusedFair explanation, context check, and stronger reading
The calendar does not erase living Jewish interpretation, authorize Christian replacement claims, or supply an end-times timetable.
A vivid command, blessing, curse, land claim, penalty, speech, or poetic line can feel easier to transfer than the complete covenant case and its affected people.
Passover begins on the fourteenth day, followed by seven days of unleavened bread, assemblies without ordinary work on first and seventh days, and repeated bulls, ram, lambs, goat, and daily offerings.
Faithful practice should join truthful memory, proportionate commitment, transparent resources, rest, gratitude, and access rather than spectacle or coercion. This unit also keeps the following boundary explicit: The calendar does not erase living Jewish interpretation, authorize Christian replacement claims, or supply an end-times timetable.
Passover and the seven-day festival are calendrically distinguished. Daily additional offerings and boundary assemblies structure the week.
This unit does not turn Israel's camp, priesthood, purity system, vow, war, land, penalty, census, or leadership arrangement into a direct constitution for a modern state, church, family, or military.
A vivid command, blessing, curse, land claim, penalty, speech, or poetic line can feel easier to transfer than the complete covenant case and its affected people.
Passover begins on the fourteenth day, followed by seven days of unleavened bread, assemblies without ordinary work on first and seventh days, and repeated bulls, ram, lambs, goat, and daily offerings.
Faithful practice should join truthful memory, proportionate commitment, transparent resources, rest, gratitude, and access rather than spectacle or coercion. This unit also keeps the following boundary explicit: The calendar does not erase living Jewish interpretation, authorize Christian replacement claims, or supply an end-times timetable.
Passover and the seven-day festival are calendrically distinguished. Daily additional offerings and boundary assemblies structure the week.
This passage must not be used for antisemitism, supersessionism, ethnic stigma, nationalism, genocide, conquest, misogyny, abuse, coercive obedience, date-setting, prosperity guarantees, or cruelty toward vulnerable people.
A vivid command, blessing, curse, land claim, penalty, speech, or poetic line can feel easier to transfer than the complete covenant case and its affected people.
Passover begins on the fourteenth day, followed by seven days of unleavened bread, assemblies without ordinary work on first and seventh days, and repeated bulls, ram, lambs, goat, and daily offerings.
Faithful practice should join truthful memory, proportionate commitment, transparent resources, rest, gratitude, and access rather than spectacle or coercion. This unit also keeps the following boundary explicit: The calendar does not erase living Jewish interpretation, authorize Christian replacement claims, or supply an end-times timetable.
Passover and the seven-day festival are calendrically distinguished. Daily additional offerings and boundary assemblies structure the week.
Research trail and exact locationsThe source record behind this section
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Numbers 28:16–25, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, numbers, speeches, poems, legal clauses, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Num.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 28:16–25
Supports: Unit-bounded translation, syntax, lexical, ritual, legal, number, name, poetic, and selected textual notes; silence is not evidence.
NET Bible Numbers PDF, complete 134-page PDF, translation and translator notes attached to 28:16–25
Supports: Moab movement, law, leadership transition, land, war, women, refuge, and compositional framing.
Yale Bible Study, Numbers Part 2, complete two-page study guide sections on Balaam, Baal Peor, second census, women and inheritance, war with Midian, Transjordan, itinerary, boundaries, Levite and refuge cities, and final inheritance, applied to Numbers 28:16–25
Sources for This Section
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
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 28:16–25, 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 28:16–25
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Numbers with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
eBible.org distribution of the NET Bible, source files dated 2026-08-08
Supports: Unit-bounded translation, syntax, lexical, ritual, legal, number, name, poetic, and selected textual notes; silence is not evidence.
Exact location: NET Bible Numbers PDF, complete 134-page PDF, translation and translator notes attached to 28:16–25
Open source ↗modern critical open study guide
Numbers Part 2
Yale Bible Study
Yale Divinity School, 2023 course edition
Supports: Moab movement, law, leadership transition, land, war, women, refuge, and compositional framing.
Exact location: Yale Bible Study, Numbers Part 2, complete two-page study guide sections on Balaam, Baal Peor, second census, women and inheritance, war with Midian, Transjordan, itinerary, boundaries, Levite and refuge cities, and final inheritance, applied to Numbers 28:16–25
Open source ↗