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Numbers 28:8 Explained in Context
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Verse 8. 8And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, thou shalt offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
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Quick Meaning
Numbers 28:8 within “Daily Offerings Mark Morning and Evening,” adds this material detail to the unit's ordered remembrance; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: the other lamb will you offer at even: as the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, you will offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour to the LORD.
Read It With
- Numbers 28:1–8
Read Numbers 28:8 with 28:1–8. It within “Daily Offerings Mark Morning and Evening,” adds this material detail to the unit's ordered remembrance; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: the other lamb will you offer at even: as the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, you will offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour to the LORD. 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 This Verse Appears Here
Daily Offerings Mark Morning and Evening contributes this unit's ritual movement to Numbers' progress from Sinai through wilderness crisis to Moab: 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. At 28:8, the verse within “Daily Offerings Mark Morning and Evening,” adds this material detail to the unit's ordered remembrance; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: the other lamb will you offer at even: as the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, you will offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour to the LORD.
What Remains True
Because Numbers 28:8 within “Daily Offerings Mark Morning and Evening,” adds this material detail to the unit's ordered remembrance; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: the other lamb will you offer at even: as the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, you will offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour to the LORD, its proportionate enduring truth is this: 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: Divine food language does not mean God needs nutrition, and daily sacrifice does not authorize animal harm or mandatory modern imitation.
How It Can Shape Life
- Verse role: Numbers 28:8 within “Daily Offerings Mark Morning and Evening,” adds this material detail to the unit's ordered remembrance; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: the other lamb will you offer at even: as the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, you will offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour to the LORD. 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. Proportionate enduring truth: 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: Divine food language does not mean God needs nutrition, and daily sacrifice does not authorize animal harm or mandatory modern imitation. Application: 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. Divine food language does not mean God needs nutrition, and daily sacrifice does not authorize animal harm or mandatory modern imitation.
Continue in Context
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Read Numbers 28:1–8 — Daily Offerings Mark Morning and EveningSources used for this Verse Lens
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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
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 28:1–8
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