Verse Lens · Context pointer
Numbers 29:2 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 2. 2And ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the LORD; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year without blemish:
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Role in This Section
Numbers 29:2 within “The Seventh Month Opens with Trumpet Memorial,” advances the repeated worship sequence with this exact requirement; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: you shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savour to the LORD; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year without blemish.
Read It With
- Numbers 29:1–6
Read Numbers 29:2 with 29:1–6. It within “The Seventh Month Opens with Trumpet Memorial,” advances the repeated worship sequence with this exact requirement; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: you shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savour to the LORD; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year without blemish. The complete unit establishes this contextual meaning: The first day of the seventh month is a holy assembly without ordinary work, marked by trumpet sound and a bull, ram, seven lambs, scaled grain and drink offerings, and a goat beyond new-moon and daily offerings.
Continue in Context
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Read Numbers 29:1–6 — The Seventh Month Opens with Trumpet MemorialSources 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 29:1–6, 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 29:1–6
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