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Numbers 29:37 Explained in Context
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Verse 37. 37Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
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Role in This Section
Numbers 29:37 within “The Eighth Day Closes with a Solemn Assembly,” marks this ritual movement and its named participants; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner.
Read It With
- Numbers 29:35–38
Read Numbers 29:37 with 29:35–38. It within “The Eighth Day Closes with a Solemn Assembly,” marks this ritual movement and its named participants; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner. The complete unit establishes this contextual meaning: An eighth-day solemn assembly without ordinary work brings one bull, one ram, seven lambs, their grain and drink offerings, and a goat beyond the daily offering.
Why It Needs Context
Numbers 29:37 within “The Eighth Day Closes with a Solemn Assembly,” marks this ritual movement and its named participants; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner. Its responsible force depends on 29:35–38; isolated from “The Eighth Day Closes with a Solemn Assembly,” the verse's actor, action, reason, object, or transition could be mistaken for independent teaching.
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Read Numbers 29:35–38 — The Eighth Day Closes with a Solemn AssemblySources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
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.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Numbers 29:35–38, 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 29:35–38
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