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Numbers 28:3 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 3. 3And thou shalt say unto them, This is the offering made by fire which ye shall offer unto the LORD; two lambs of the first year without spot day by day, for a continual burnt offering.
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Role in This Section
Numbers 28:3 within “Daily Offerings Mark Morning and Evening,” marks this ritual movement and its named participants; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: you will say to them, This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer to the LORD; two lambs of the first year without spot day by day, for a continual burnt offering.
Read It With
- Numbers 28:1–8
Read Numbers 28:3 with 28:1–8. It within “Daily Offerings Mark Morning and Evening,” marks this ritual movement and its named participants; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: you will say to them, This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer to the LORD; two lambs of the first year without spot day by day, for a continual burnt offering. The complete unit establishes this contextual meaning: The LORD commands Israel to present food offerings at appointed times: two year-old lambs daily, one morning and one evening, with flour, oil, wine, and altar fire as a regular pleasing aroma.
Why It Needs Context
Numbers 28:3 within “Daily Offerings Mark Morning and Evening,” marks this ritual movement and its named participants; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: you will say to them, This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer to the LORD; two lambs of the first year without spot day by day, for a continual burnt offering. Its responsible force depends on 28:1–8; isolated from “Daily Offerings Mark Morning and Evening,” the verse's actor, action, reason, object, or transition could be mistaken for independent teaching.
Continue in Context
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Read Numbers 28:1–8 — Daily Offerings Mark Morning and EveningSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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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 28:1–8, 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 28:1–8
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