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Numbers 28:27 Explained in Context

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Verse 27. But ye shall offer the burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the LORD; two young bullocks, one ram, seven lambs of the first year;

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Numbers 28:27 within “Firstfruits and Weeks Add a Holy Assembly,” advances the repeated worship sequence with this exact requirement; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: But you shall offer the burnt offering for a sweet savour to the LORD; two young bullocks, one ram, seven lambs of the first year.

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  • Numbers 28:26–31

Read Numbers 28:27 with 28:26–31. It within “Firstfruits and Weeks Add a Holy Assembly,” advances the repeated worship sequence with this exact requirement; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: But you shall offer the burnt offering for a sweet savour to the LORD; two young bullocks, one ram, seven lambs of the first year. The complete unit establishes this contextual meaning: 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.

Why It Needs Context

Numbers 28:27 within “Firstfruits and Weeks Add a Holy Assembly,” advances the repeated worship sequence with this exact requirement; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: But you shall offer the burnt offering for a sweet savour to the LORD; two young bullocks, one ram, seven lambs of the first year. Its responsible force depends on 28:26–31; isolated from “Firstfruits and Weeks Add a Holy Assembly,” the verse's actor, action, reason, object, or transition could be mistaken for independent teaching.

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Read Numbers 28:26–31 — Firstfruits and Weeks Add a Holy Assembly
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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.

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Exact location: Numbers 28:26–31, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus

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Open Scriptures, release 2.2, 2021

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Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Num.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 28:26–31

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