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Numbers 29:38 Explained in Context
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Verse 38. 38And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
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Quick Meaning
Numbers 29:38 within “The Eighth Day Closes with a Solemn Assembly,” adds this material detail to the unit's ordered remembrance; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
Read It With
- Numbers 29:35–38
Read Numbers 29:38 with 29:35–38. It within “The Eighth Day Closes with a Solemn Assembly,” adds this material detail to the unit's ordered remembrance; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering. 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 This Verse Appears Here
The Eighth Day Closes with a Solemn Assembly contributes this unit's ritual movement to Numbers' progress from Sinai through wilderness crisis to Moab: 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. At 29:38, the verse within “The Eighth Day Closes with a Solemn Assembly,” adds this material detail to the unit's ordered remembrance; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
What Remains True
Because Numbers 29:38 within “The Eighth Day Closes with a Solemn Assembly,” adds this material detail to the unit's ordered remembrance; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering, 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: The eighth day does not reveal an end-times code or permit coerced observance and giving.
How It Can Shape Life
- Verse role: Numbers 29:38 within “The Eighth Day Closes with a Solemn Assembly,” adds this material detail to the unit's ordered remembrance; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering. 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. 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: The eighth day does not reveal an end-times code or permit coerced observance and giving. 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. The eighth day does not reveal an end-times code or permit coerced observance and giving.
Continue in Context
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Read Numbers 29:35–38 — The Eighth Day Closes with a Solemn AssemblySources 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 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
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 29:35–38
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