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Numbers 29:39 Explained in Context
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Verse 39. 39These things ye shall do unto the LORD in your set feasts, beside your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meat offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.
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Quick Meaning
Numbers 29:39 within “Appointed Offerings Stand beside Voluntary Gifts,” specifies this offering, time, object, action, or recipient within the rite; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: These things you shall do to the LORD in your set feasts, beside your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meat offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.
Appointed times do not swallow vows and freewill gifts
This verse is one part of that explanation in Numbers 29:39–40. The complete section carries the connected meaning and how it should shape life.
Read It With
- Numbers 29:39–40
Read Numbers 29:39 with 29:39–40. It within “Appointed Offerings Stand beside Voluntary Gifts,” specifies this offering, time, object, action, or recipient within the rite; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: These things you shall do to the LORD in your set feasts, beside your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meat offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings. The complete unit establishes this contextual meaning: Moses tells the people that the prescribed festival offerings are to be given at appointed times in addition to vows, freewill gifts, and other burnt, grain, drink, and peace offerings.
What Remains True
Because Numbers 29:39 within “Appointed Offerings Stand beside Voluntary Gifts,” specifies this offering, time, object, action, or recipient within the rite; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: These things you shall do to the LORD in your set feasts, beside your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meat offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings, 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 summary does not let leaders relabel required payments as voluntary or use vows to multiply pressure on donors.
Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read Numbers 29:39–40 — Appointed Offerings Stand beside Voluntary GiftsSources 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 29:39–40, 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 29:39–40
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 29:39–40
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