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Numbers29:1–6

The Feast of Trumpets

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Numbers 29:1–6 — The Feast of Trumpets. Each verse below carries the full apparatus: the Berean Standard Bible, the vocalized original (tap any word), and a parsed breakdown of every term transcribed from the interlinear. Synthesized commentary, canonical threads, and the reading of Christ gather at the end, over the whole unit.

1““On the first day of the seventh month, you are to hold a sacred…”+

1“On the first day of the seventh month, you are to hold a sacred assembly, and you must not do any regular work. This will be a day for you to sound the trumpets.

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Hebrew — tap a word ↓

bə·’e·ḥāḏ la·ḥō·ḏeš haš·šə·ḇî·‘î ū·ḇa·ḥō·ḏeš yih·yeh lā·ḵem qō·ḏeš miq·rā- lō ṯa·‘ă·śū kāl- mə·le·ḵeṯ ‘ă·ḇō·ḏāh yih·yeh yō·wm lā·ḵem tə·rū·‘āh

Literal — word-for-word from the original

And-on-the-first of-the-month, of-the-seventh, a holy convocation shall-be to-you; any work of-service you-shall-not do; a day of-blowing [the trumpets] it-shall-be to-you.

Where the English smooths the original

  • בְּאֶחָ֣ד BSB "On the first day" supplies "day"; the Hebrew reads bə·’e·ḥāḏ la·ḥō·ḏeš — literally "on one of the month" (ʼechâd, "one," the same word that will name the single bull, ram-count, and goat through vv.2-5). The day is named simply "the one," the new-moon's head.
  • מִֽקְרָא־קֹדֶשׁ "a sacred assembly" renders miq·rā qō·ḏeš — literally "a holy calling-out" (miqrâʼ, from qârâ, "to call"). It is not first a gathering but a summons: a day God calls the people out to Himself. The assembly is the answer to a call, not the thing itself.
  • מְלֶ֥אכֶת עֲבֹדָ֖ה "any regular work" softens the construct mə·le·ḵeṯ ‘ă·ḇō·ḏāh — "work of service / servile labor" (melâʼkâh + ʻăbôdâh). The phrase is technical: not all work is forbidden as on the Sabbath, but laborious, occupational toil. Gill and JFB note this is why Leviticus 23:24 still calls it a "sabbath."
  • תְּרוּעָ֖ה "to sound the trumpets" interprets the single noun tə·rū·‘āh — "a shout / blast / clamor" (tᵉrûwʻâh). The word names the loud festal cry, whether of voice or horn; no instrument is specified in the text. BSB rightly supplies "trumpets" from custom, but the Hebrew is barer: a day of blowing / acclamation.
Word by word17 · parsed+
בְּאֶחָ֣דbə·’e·ḥāḏOn the firstH259
√ ʼechâd — properly, united, iPreposition-bNumbermasculine singular
לַחֹ֗דֶשׁla·ḥō·ḏešdayH2320
√ chôdesh — the new moonPreposition-l, ArticleNounmasculine singular
חֹדֶשׁ (chôḏeš) — properly "the new moon," the renewal of the lunar month; the same word recurs in v.6 ("the monthly offering"). The feast falls on the head of the seventh month, itself a new-moon day, so two observances stack on one date.
הַשְּׁבִיעִ֜יhaš·šə·ḇî·‘îof the seventhH7637
√ shᵉbîyʻîy — seventhArticleNumberordinal masculine singular
הַשְּׁבִיעִ֜י (haš·šə·ḇî·‘î), "the seventh" — the sabbatical number applied to the calendar. As the seventh day is holy, so the seventh month is the holiest of months; Matthew Henry: "There were more sacred solemnities in the seventh month than in any other."
וּבַחֹ֨דֶשׁū·ḇa·ḥō·ḏešmonthH2320
√ chôdesh — the new moonConjunctive waw, Preposition-b, ArticleNounmasculine singular
יִהְיֶ֣הyih·yehyou are to holdH1961
√ hâyâh — to exist, iVerbQalImperfectthird person masculine singular
לָכֶ֔םlā·ḵem
Prepositionsecond person masculine plural
קֹ֙דֶשׁ֙qō·ḏeša sacredH6944
√ qôdesh — a sacred place or thingNounmasculine singular
קֹ֙דֶשׁ֙ (qōḏeš), "holy / set apart" (a sacred thing) — the day is consecrated time, withdrawn from common use.
מִֽקְרָא־miq·rā-assemblyH4744
√ miqrâʼ — something called out, iNounmasculine singular construct
מִֽקְרָא־ (miqrâʼ) — "something called out"; the technical term for an appointed sacred assembly (cf. Leviticus 23:2-4). The people are convened by divine summons.
לֹ֣אand you must notH3808
√ lôʼ — not (the simple or absAdverbNegative particle
תַעֲשׂ֑וּṯa·‘ă·śūdoH6213
√ ʻâsâh — to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest applicationVerbQalImperfectsecond person masculine plural
כָּל־kāl-anyH3605
√ kôl — properly, the wholeNounmasculine singular construct
מְלֶ֥אכֶתmə·le·ḵeṯregular workH4399
√ mᵉlâʼkâh — properly, deputyship, iNounfeminine singular construct
עֲבֹדָ֖ה‘ă·ḇō·ḏāh. . .H5656
√ ʻăbôdâh — work of any kindNounfeminine singular
יִהְיֶ֥הyih·yehThis will beH1961
√ hâyâh — to exist, iVerbQalImperfectthird person masculine singular
י֥וֹםyō·wma dayH3117
√ yôwm — a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)Nounmasculine singular construct
לָכֶֽם׃lā·ḵemfor you
Prepositionsecond person masculine plural
תְּרוּעָ֖הtə·rū·‘āhto sound the trumpetsH8643
√ tᵉrûwʻâh — clamor, iNounfeminine singular
תְּרוּעָ֖ה (tᵉrûwʻâh) — the festal shout/blast. A rare word (33 occurrences) that ties this day verbally to the alarm-blast of war (Numbers 10:5-6), the shout at Sinai, the fall of Jericho (Joshua 6:5), and the Jubilee trumpet of the Day of Atonement (Leviticus 25:9). The trumpet here ushers in the month of atonement and ingathering.
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The sixth national sacrifice, which was also annual, was to be performed on the festival of trumpets, upon the first day of the seventh month of the ecclesiastical year, being the first month of the civil year, answering to our September. It was to be kept in the manner of a sabbath, with great rejoicings, solemn worship, and abstinence from all common labour, in order to usher in the new year.
It was, in fact, the New Year's Day, which had been celebrated among the Hebrews and other contemporary nations with great festivity and joy and ushered in by a flourish of trumpets. This ordinance was designed to give a religious character to the occasion by associating it with some solemn observances.
The ordinance of the Feast of Trumpets was to be observed on the opening day of that month within which the great Day of the Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles fell (compare Leviticus 23:23 ff). The special offering for the day anticipated that of the great Day of Atonement.
Barnes alone reads the Trumpets-day offering as a deliberate anticipation of the great Day of Atonement that follows on the tenth — the lexical thread to Leviticus 25:9 (the Jubilee trumpet sounded on Atonement) corroborates the link he draws thematically.
And in the seventh month,.... The month Tisri, as the Targum of Jonathan, which answers to part of our September and October; a month famous for days to be religiously observed, having more of them in it than any other month in the year
2“As a pleasing aroma to the LORD, you are to present a burnt offe…”+

2As a pleasing aroma to the LORD, you are to present a burnt offering of one young bull, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old, all unblemished,

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nî·ḥō·aḥ lə·rê·aḥ Yah·weh wa·‘ă·śî·ṯem ‘ō·lāh ’e·ḥāḏ ben- bā·qār par ’e·ḥāḏ ’a·yil šiḇ·‘āh kə·ḇā·śîm bə·nê- šā·nāh tə·mî·mim

Literal — word-for-word from the original

And-you-shall-offer a-burnt-offering for-a-pleasing aroma to-Yahweh: one bull, son-of the-herd, one ram, seven male-lambs sons-of a-year, unblemished shall-they-be to-you.

Where the English smooths the original

  • נִיחֹ֙חַ֙ BSB "pleasing aroma" renders nî·ḥō·aḥ lə·rê·aḥ — "for a restful / soothing odor" (nîychôwach, from a root meaning "to rest, settle"; cf. Noah's name). The smoke is not merely fragrant but quieting: it settles the relation between God and worshipper. The word recurs in v.6 and is the load-bearing term linking this day to every burnt-offering.
  • עֹלָ֜ה "a burnt offering" renders ‘ō·lāh — literally "that which ascends" (ʻôlâh, from ʻâlâh, "to go up"). Named for its motion: the whole victim goes up in smoke, ascending entire to God. "Burnt offering" catches the fire but not the rising; the Hebrew sees the offering climbing heavenward.
  • אֶחָ֖ד "of one" — the word ’e·ḥāḏ ("one") falls three times in this verse (one bull, one ram, and bracketing the count), the same numeral that names the day in v.1 ("the one of the month"). One bull stands here against the new-moon's two (Numbers 28:11); the commentators confess the reason "is wholly unknown" (Pulpit).
  • תְּמִימִֽם "all unblemished" renders tə·mî·mim — "whole / complete / without defect" (tâmîym, the word also rendered "perfect" and "blameless" of persons, e.g. Noah, Job). The animal's bodily wholeness images moral integrity; what ascends to God must be entire, lacking nothing.
Word by word16 · parsed+
נִיחֹ֙חַ֙nî·ḥō·aḥAs a pleasingH5207
√ nîychôwach — properly, restful, iNounmasculine singular
נִיחֹ֙חַ֙ (nîychôwach) — "restful, soothing." A rare word (43 occurrences) and the thread-anchor of the offering vocabulary; the same noun closes the unit in v.6, framing the whole festal sacrifice as an aroma that gives rest.
לְרֵ֤יחַlə·rê·aḥaromaH7381
√ rêyach — odor (as if blown)Preposition-lNounmasculine singular construct
לַֽיהוָ֔הYah·wehto the LORDH3068
√ Yᵉhôvâh — Jehovah, Jewish national name of GodPreposition-lNounpropermasculine singular
וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֨םwa·‘ă·śî·ṯemyou are to presentH6213
√ ʻâsâh — to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest applicationConjunctive wawVerbQalConjunctive perfectsecond person masculine plural
וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֨ם (wa·‘ă·śî·ṯem) — the consecutive perfect of ʻâsâh ("to do/make"), here "you shall offer/prepare." The same root that named the forbidden "work" of v.1 (taʻăśū): the one labor permitted on this rest-day is the labor of sacrifice.
עֹלָ֜ה‘ō·lāha burnt offeringH5930
√ ʻôlâh — a step or (collectively, stairs, as ascending)Nounfeminine singular
עֹלָ֜ה (ʻôlâh), the ascending offering — wholly consumed, retaining nothing for the offerer; the fullest gift, total surrender.
אֶחָ֖ד’e·ḥāḏof oneH259
√ ʼechâd — properly, united, iNumbermasculine singular
בֶּן־ben-youngH1121
√ bên — a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etcNounmasculine singular construct
בָּקָ֛רbā·qār. . .H1241
√ bâqâr — beef cattle or an animal of the ox family of either gender (as used for plowing)Nounmasculine singular
פַּ֧רparbullH6499
√ par — a bullock (apparently as breaking forth in wild strength, or perhaps as dividing the hoof)Nounmasculine singular
אֶחָ֑ד’e·ḥāḏoneH259
√ ʼechâd — properly, united, iNumbermasculine singular
אַ֣יִל’a·yilramH352
√ ʼayil — properly, strengthNounmasculine singular
שִׁבְעָ֖הšiḇ·‘āhand sevenH7651
√ shebaʻ — seven (as the sacred full one)Numbermasculine singular
כְּבָשִׂ֧יםkə·ḇā·śîmmale lambsH3532
√ kebes — a ram (just old enough to butt)Nounmasculine plural
כְּבָשִׂ֧ים (kebes), "male lambs" — "a ram just old enough to butt"; seven of them, the sabbatical fullness, each "a son of a year" (a yearling).
בְּנֵי־bə·nê-a year oldH1121
√ bên — a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etcNounmasculine plural construct
שָׁנָ֛הšā·nāh. . .H8141
√ shâneh — a year (as a revolution of time)Nounfeminine singular
תְּמִימִֽם׃tə·mî·mimall unblemishedH8549
√ tâmîym — entire (literally, figuratively or morally)Adjectivemasculine plural
תְּמִימִֽם (tâmîym) — "unblemished, complete." The standing requirement of every acceptable victim (Leviticus 22:19-21); the perfect offering points beyond itself to a perfection no beast finally bears.
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And ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the Lord,.... Which was as follows: one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year without blemish, which was the same, only one bullock less, with the offerings on the first day of the month, the seven days of unleavened bread, and the day of the firstfruits
Such an offering had been commanded ( Leviticus 23:25 ), but not specified. It comprised one bullock less than the new moon offering, but the reason of the difference is wholly unknown, unless it were in view of the large number of bullocks required at the feast of tabernacles.
As this was a double festival, it was to be solemnized with these additional sacrifices, besides the sacrifices appointed on the foregoing festivals, ( Numbers 28:19 ; Numbers 28:27 ,) which were also to be offered upon this day, on account of its being the beginning of the month.
In primitive days in Israel (as in many other nations, e.g. Babylonians, Greeks and Romans) it was believed that the deity really ate and drank the offerings (cf. Jdg 9:13 ). By the time that this chapter was written, such notions had, of course, long passed away, but the ancient ritual language survived.
The Cambridge Bible (critical-school) treats the "food offering" / "pleasing aroma" language as a survival of older anthropomorphic religion; quoted to register the disputed reading honestly — the older anthropomorphism is real in the vocabulary, though Scripture itself repudiates the notion that God eats (Psalm 50:12-13).
3“together with their grain offerings of fine flour mixed with oil…”+

3together with their grain offerings of fine flour mixed with oil—three-tenths of an ephah with the bull, two-tenths of an ephah with the ram,

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ū·min·ḥā·ṯām sō·leṯ bə·lū·lāh ḇaš·šā·men šə·lō·šāh ‘eś·rō·nîm lap·pār šə·nê ‘eś·rō·nîm lā·’ā·yil

Literal — word-for-word from the original

And-their-grain-offering: fine-flour mixed with-the-oil — three tenths for-the-bull, two tenths for-the-ram,

Where the English smooths the original

  • וּמִנְחָתָ֔ם BSB "their grain offerings" renders ū·min·ḥā·ṯām — "and their minḥâh," properly a gift / tribute / donation (minchâh, the same word for a present brought to a superior, Genesis 32:13). "Grain offering" rightly names its substance (flour and oil) but the word itself means a homage-gift; the bloodless tribute accompanies the blood.
  • סֹ֖לֶת "fine flour" renders sō·leṯ — flour "as chipped / scraped off" (çôleth), the finest siftings of the wheat. Not ordinary meal (qemach) but the choicest, smoothest flour; only the best of the harvest is fit to ascend with the offering.
  • בְּלוּלָ֣ה "mixed" renders the passive participle bə·lū·lāh (bâlal, "to overflow / drench / moisten," specifically with oil). The flour is not lightly stirred but saturated, soaked through with oil — the same emphatic verb the unit at Numbers 8 used of the consecration bull's grain-offering.
  • עֶשְׂרֹנִים֙ "tenths [of an ephah]" renders ‘eś·rō·nîm — literally just "tenths" (ʻissârôwn, "a tenth part"); the unit "of an ephah" is supplied by translators (the older versions say "tenth deals"). The graduated measure — three for the bull, two for the ram, one per lamb (v.4) — scales the tribute to the victim.
Word by word10 · parsed+
וּמִנְחָתָ֔םū·min·ḥā·ṯāmtogether with their grain offeringsH4503
√ minchâh — a donationConjunctive wawNounfeminine singular constructthird person masculine plural
וּמִנְחָתָ֔ם (minchâh) — "their gift-offering." A rare-ish word (194 occurrences) and the thread-link to Leviticus 23:13 and the new-moon rite of Numbers 28; the blood-offering never ascends alone but is always accompanied by this tribute of flour, oil, and (v.6) wine.
סֹ֖לֶתsō·leṯof fine flourH5560
√ çôleth — flour (as chipped off)Nounfeminine singular
סֹ֖לֶת (çôleth), "fine flour" — the refined siftings; the costliness of the gift is in its fineness, the labor of grinding and bolting offered up to God.
בְּלוּלָ֣הbə·lū·lāhmixedH1101
√ bâlal — to overflow (specifically with oilVerbQalQalPassParticiplefeminine singular
בְּלוּלָ֣ה (bâlal) — "drenched with oil." Oil (shemen) throughout the offering-law carries associations of gladness, anointing, and the Spirit; the saturated flour is a gift made rich.
בַשָּׁ֑מֶןḇaš·šā·menwith oilH8081
√ shemen — grease, especially liquid (as from the olive, often perfumed)Preposition-b, ArticleNounmasculine singular
שְׁלֹשָׁ֤הšə·lō·šāhthree-tenths [of an ephah]H7969
√ shâlôwsh — threeNumbermasculine singular
שְׁלֹשָׁ֤ה (šâ·lôwš), "three" — the graduated portions descend (3 / 2 / 1) with the size of each animal; Gill notes the quantities are "the same" as at the new moons, unleavened bread, and firstfruits, binding all the festal grain-offerings to one rule (Numbers 28:12-13).
עֶשְׂרֹנִים֙‘eś·rō·nîm. . .H6241
√ ʻissârôwn — (fractional) a tenth partNounmasculine plural
לַפָּ֔רlap·pārwith the bullH6499
√ par — a bullock (apparently as breaking forth in wild strength, or perhaps as dividing the hoof)Preposition-l, ArticleNounmasculine singular
שְׁנֵ֥יšə·nêtwo-tenths [of an ephah]H8147
√ shᵉnayim — twoNumbermasculine dual construct
עֶשְׂרֹנִ֖ים‘eś·rō·nîm. . .H6241
√ ʻissârôwn — (fractional) a tenth partNounmasculine plural
לָאָֽיִל׃lā·’ā·yilwith the ramH352
√ ʼayil — properly, strengthPreposition-l, ArticleNounmasculine singular
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And their meat offering,.... Which went along with the creatures offered for a burnt offering; the quantity of flour and oil used in it was the same, for a bullock, a ram, and each lamb, as in the offerings at the new moons, feast of unleavened bread and the day of firstfruits, Numbers 28:10 and a kid of the goats was also offered for a sin offering at this time, as in those seasons, and for the same purpose, to make atonement for the sins of their holy things.
And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram,
The Geneva renders ʻissârôwn as "tenth deals" — the older English idiom for the "tenth of an ephah" that BSB supplies; quoted to show the measure-word the Hebrew leaves implicit.
Those who would know the mind of God in the Scriptures, must compare one part with another. The latter discoveries of Divine light explain what was dark, and supply what was wanting, in the former, that the man of God may be perfect.
Henry's single block comment on 29:1-11 recurs across these verses; this clause is featured here because the graduated grain-measures are precisely a place where "comparing one part with another" (with Numbers 28) supplies what this verse leaves unstated.
4“and a tenth of an ephah with each of the seven male lambs.”+

4and a tenth of an ephah with each of the seven male lambs.

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wə·‘iś·śā·rō·wn ’e·ḥāḏ hā·’e·ḥāḏ lə·šiḇ·‘aṯ hak·kə·ḇā·śîm lak·ke·ḇeś

Literal — word-for-word from the original

And-a-tenth, one, for-the-each one, for-the-seven the-male-lambs,

Where the English smooths the original

  • וְעִשָּׂר֣וֹן BSB "a tenth of an ephah" again supplies "of an ephah" for the bare wə·‘iś·śā·rō·wn ("and a tenth"). The verse is almost entirely numerals: one tenth for each one of the seven — a spareness of language matching the spareness of the smallest portion, given lamb by lamb.
  • הָאֶחָ֑ד "with each" renders hā·’e·ḥāḏ — "the one" (ʼechâd with the article), the distributive idiom "a tenth for the one" meaning "for each individual lamb." The same word ʼechâd that named the day, the bull, and the ram now distributes the measure singly across the seven; the unit's arithmetic is built on "one."
  • לַכֶּ֖בֶשׂ "male lambs" — the verse closes by repeating lak·ke·ḇeś, "for the lamb" (singular, kebes), after the plural "the seven lambs." The doubling ("for the seven lambs ... for the lamb") is the distributive made explicit: not a tenth shared among seven, but a tenth apiece, the gift individualized to every victim.
Word by word6 · parsed+
וְעִשָּׂר֣וֹןwə·‘iś·śā·rō·wnand a tenth [of an ephah]H6241
√ ʻissârôwn — (fractional) a tenth partConjunctive wawNounmasculine singular
וְעִשָּׂר֣וֹן (ʻissârôwn), "a tenth" — the smallest grain-portion, scaled to the smallest animal; the descending series (3-2-1) is complete here. The measure is the ʻomer, a tenth of an ephah, the same daily ration of manna (Exodus 16:36).
אֶחָ֔ד’e·ḥāḏ. . .H259
√ ʼechâd — properly, united, iNumbermasculine singular
הָאֶחָ֑דhā·’e·ḥāḏwith eachH259
√ ʼechâd — properly, united, iArticleNumbermasculine singular
הָאֶחָ֑ד (ʼechâd), "the one / each" — the seventh and culminating occurrence of "one" across vv.1-4; what began as the day's name becomes the rule of distribution, every lamb its own gift.
לְשִׁבְעַ֖תlə·šiḇ·‘aṯof the sevenH7651
√ shebaʻ — seven (as the sacred full one)Preposition-lNumbermasculine singular construct
לְשִׁבְעַ֖ת (shebaʻ), "the seven" — "seven, as the sacred full one"; the sabbatical number of lambs in the seventh month, fullness upon fullness.
הַכְּבָשִֽׂים׃hak·kə·ḇā·śîm. . .H3532
√ kebes — a ram (just old enough to butt)ArticleNounmasculine plural
לַכֶּ֖בֶשׂlak·ke·ḇeśmale lambsH3532
√ kebes — a ram (just old enough to butt)Preposition-l, ArticleNounmasculine singular
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And one tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs:
The Geneva's plain rendering captures the Hebrew distributive ("one tenth ... throughout the seven") — a tenth apiece, not a tenth shared.
the quantity of flour and oil used in it was the same, for a bullock, a ram, and each lamb, as in the offerings at the new moons, feast of unleavened bread and the day of firstfruits, Numbers 28:10
Gill's single comment covers vv.3-5; the clause featured here is the one bearing on v.4's per-lamb measure ("each lamb ... the same").
It was the space between harvest and seed-time. The more leisure we have from the pressing occupations of this life, the more time we should spend in the immediate service of God.
Henry's block comment on 29:1-11; this sentence is featured here for its devotional weight, distinct from the clause used at v.3.
5“Include one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for yo…”+

5Include one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for you.

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’e·ḥāḏ ū·śə·‘îr- ‘iz·zîm ḥaṭ·ṭāṯ lə·ḵap·pêr ‘ă·lê·ḵem

Literal — word-for-word from the original

And-a-he-goat of-the-goats, one, [for] a-sin-offering, to-make-atonement over-you.

Where the English smooths the original

  • וּשְׂעִיר־עִזִּ֥ים BSB "one male goat" renders śə·‘îr ‘iz·zîm — literally "a hairy / shaggy one of the goats" (sâʻîyr, "shaggy," the same word later used of the scapegoat sent to Azazel, Leviticus 16, and of the wilderness "goat-demons," Leviticus 17:7). The animal is named for its rough coat; the sin-bearer is the shaggy one.
  • חַטָּ֑את "as a sin offering" renders ḥaṭ·ṭāṯ — the noun (chaṭṭâʼâh) that means both "sin" and "sin-offering" at once; the offering is named for the thing it removes. The same word is the "sin" it cancels and the sacrifice that cancels it — the victim wears the name of the guilt.
  • לְכַפֵּ֖ר "to make atonement" renders the infinitive lə·ḵap·pêr (Piel of kâphar, root "to cover / smear over," as one covers a hull with pitch, Genesis 6:14). Atonement is literally a covering drawn over the people; Gill reads it as covering "the sins of their holy things" — even the festival's own worship needs cleansing.
Word by word6 · parsed+
אֶחָ֖ד’e·ḥāḏInclude oneH259
√ ʼechâd — properly, united, iNumbermasculine singular
וּשְׂעִיר־ū·śə·‘îr-male goatH8163
√ sâʻîyr — shaggyConjunctive wawNounmasculine singular construct
וּשְׂעִיר־ (sâʻîyr), "he-goat / shaggy one" — a rare word (57 occurrences) and the thread-link to the sin-offering law of Leviticus 4:23 and 16. On the tenth of this same month the shaggy goat returns at the center of the Day of Atonement; the Trumpets-day goat opens what that day will complete.
עִזִּ֥ים‘iz·zîm. . .H5795
√ ʻêz — a she-goat (as strong), but masculine in plural (which also is used elliptically for goat's hair)Nounfeminine plural
חַטָּ֑אתḥaṭ·ṭāṯas a sin offeringH2403
√ chaṭṭâʼâh — an offence (sometimes habitual sinfulness), and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiationNounfeminine singular
חַטָּ֑את (chaṭṭâʼâh), "sin / sin-offering" — the pivot of the verse. JFB notes that to the burnt-offering of vv.2-4 "a sin offering is prescribed," a feature the parallel Leviticus 23:25 does not specify; the day is not joy only but joy founded on expiation.
לְכַפֵּ֖רlə·ḵap·pêrto make atonementH3722
√ kâphar — to cover (specifically with bitumen)Preposition-lVerbPielInfinitive construct
לְכַפֵּ֖ר (kâphar), "to cover / atone" — the goal toward which the whole day's sacrifice bends. The covering is "over you" (ʻălêḵem): the people stand under the atonement as under a shelter. The single goat carries what the bull, ram, and lambs cannot — the removal of guilt.
עֲלֵיכֶֽם׃‘ă·lê·ḵemfor youH5921
√ ʻal — above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applicationsPrepositionsecond person masculine plural
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a kid of the goats was also offered for a sin offering at this time, as in those seasons, and for the same purpose, to make atonement for the sins of their holy things.
And one kid of the goats for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you:
Although the institution of this feast was described before, there is more particularity here as to what the burnt offering should consist of; and, in addition to it, a sin offering is prescribed.
JFB marks what is genuinely new in Numbers 29 over Leviticus 23: the sin-offering goat (the ḥaṭṭāṯ of this verse) is added here, not specified there.
6“These are in addition to the monthly and daily burnt offerings w…”+

6These are in addition to the monthly and daily burnt offerings with their prescribed grain offerings and drink offerings. They are a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.

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mil·lə·ḇaḏ ha·ḥō·ḏeš hat·tā·mîḏ ū·min·ḥā·ṯāh ‘ō·laṯ kə·miš·pā·ṭām ū·min·ḥā·ṯāh wə·‘ō·laṯ wə·nis·kê·hem nî·ḥō·aḥ lə·rê·aḥ ’iš·šeh Yah·weh

Literal — word-for-word from the original

Besides the-burnt-offering-of-the-month and-its-grain-offering, and-the-continual burnt-offering and-its-grain-offering, and-their-drink-offerings, according-to-their-ordinance, for-a-pleasing aroma, a-food-offering to-Yahweh.

Where the English smooths the original

  • מִלְּבַד֩ BSB "in addition to" renders mil·lə·ḇaḏ — "apart from / besides" (from bad, "separation, alone"). The key structural word of the verse and the chapter's accounting: these festal sacrifices are over and above, not instead of, the standing offerings. K&D builds his whole tally on this "besides" — the daily and monthly rites stand untouched beneath the added feast.
  • הַתָּמִיד֙ "daily" renders hat·tā·mîḏ — "the continual / perpetual" (tâmîyd, "continuance, indefinite extension"). The word names the unbroken morning-and-evening lamb (Exodus 29:38-42) by its essential quality: continuity. It is a near-homophone of the tâmîym ("unblemished") of v.2 (a different word and root, though the ear hears the echo) — the daily offering is both perpetual and perfect.
  • כְּמִשְׁפָּטָ֑ם "with their prescribed [offerings]" renders kə·miš·pā·ṭām — "according to their judgment / ordinance / due manner" (mishpâṭ, properly a judicial verdict, here the fixed legal rule). The drink-offerings are poured "by their mishpat" — the appointed law for them; Poole: "according to the order, rites, and ceremonies appointed by God."
  • אִשֶּׁ֖ה "a food offering" renders ’iš·šeh — properly "an offering made by fire" (ʼishshâh, related to ʼêsh, "fire"); the older versions read "a sacrifice made by fire." BSB's "food offering" follows the alternative derivation (from the idea of God's "bread," cf. v.2 Cambridge note); the Hebrew foregrounds the fire that turns the gift to ascending smoke.
Word by word13 · parsed+
מִלְּבַד֩mil·lə·ḇaḏThese are in addition toH905
√ bad — properly, separationPreposition-m, Preposition-lNounmasculine singular construct
מִלְּבַד֩ (bad), "besides / apart from" — the accounting hinge. Keil & Delitzsch totals the day's victims from this one word: the daily lamb morning and evening, then the new-moon's two bulls, ram, and seven lambs, then this feast's bull, ram, seven lambs, and goat — three bullocks, two rams, sixteen lambs in all (so Gill).
הַחֹ֜דֶשׁha·ḥō·ḏešthe monthlyH2320
√ chôdesh — the new moonArticleNounmasculine singular
הַתָּמִיד֙hat·tā·mîḏand dailyH8548
√ tâmîyd — properly, continuance (as indefinite extension)ArticleAdverb
הַתָּמִיד֙ (tâmîyd), "the continual" — the perpetual daily burnt-offering (Numbers 28:3-6), the floor beneath every festal addition. No feast, however great, displaces the steady morning-and-evening worship; the extraordinary rests on the ordinary.
וּמִנְחָתָ֔הּū·min·ḥā·ṯāh. . .H4503
√ minchâh — a donationConjunctive wawNounfeminine singular constructthird person feminine singular
עֹלַ֨ת‘ō·laṯburnt offeringsH5930
√ ʻôlâh — a step or (collectively, stairs, as ascending)Nounfeminine singular construct
כְּמִשְׁפָּטָ֑םkə·miš·pā·ṭāmwith their prescribedH4941
√ mishpâṭ — properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penaltyPreposition-kNounmasculine singular constructthird person masculine plural
כְּמִשְׁפָּטָ֑ם (mishpâṭ), "according to their ordinance" — the fixed legal due. The freedom of festal joy moves entirely within an appointed order; even the wine is poured by rule.
וּמִנְחָתָ֗הּū·min·ḥā·ṯāhgrain offeringsH4503
√ minchâh — a donationConjunctive wawNounfeminine singular constructthird person feminine singular
וְעֹלַ֤תwə·‘ō·laṯ. . .H5930
√ ʻôlâh — a step or (collectively, stairs, as ascending)Conjunctive wawNounfeminine singular construct
וְנִסְכֵּיהֶ֖םwə·nis·kê·hemand drink offeringsH5262
√ neçek — a libationConjunctive wawNounmasculine plural constructthird person masculine plural
נִיחֹ֔חַnî·ḥō·aḥThey are a pleasingH5207
√ nîychôwach — properly, restful, iNounmasculine singular
נִיחֹ֔חַ (nîychôwach), "pleasing / restful" — the same word that opened the offering in v.2 now closes the unit, framing the whole festal sacrifice as one aroma of rest ascending to God.
לְרֵ֣יחַlə·rê·aḥaromaH7381
√ rêyach — odor (as if blown)Preposition-lNounmasculine singular construct
אִשֶּׁ֖ה’iš·šeha food offeringH801
√ ʼishshâh — properly, a burnt-offeringNounmasculine singular
אִשֶּׁ֖ה (ʼishshâh), "fire-offering / food-offering" — the gift consumed by fire; the closing clause gathers everything (burnt-, grain-, drink-, sin-offerings) into a single "fire-offering to Yahweh," the day's many sacrifices summed as one ascent.
לַיהוָֽה׃סYah·wehto the LORDH3068
√ Yᵉhôvâh — Jehovah, Jewish national name of GodPreposition-lNounpropermasculine singular
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Beside the burnt offering of the month.— Better, of the new moon. (See Numbers 28:11 , where the burnt offering of the beginning of the month is described.)
a sin-offering of a he-goat, "besides" (i.e., in addition to) the monthly and daily burnt-offering, meat-offering, and drink-offering. Consequently the sacrifices presented on the seventh new moon's day were, (1) a yearling lamb in the morning and evening, with their meat-offering and drink-offering; (2) in the morning, after the daily sacrifice, the ordinary new moon's sacrifice, consisting of two bullocks, one ram, and seven yearling lambs
K&D's running tally hangs on the single word millᵉḇaḏ ("besides"): the feast adds to, never replaces, the standing daily and monthly offerings.
Of the month; belonging to every new moon, of which see Numbers 28:11 ,12 2 Chronicles 2:4 . According to their manner; according to the order, rites, and ceremonies appointed by God.
so that there were offered on this day three bullocks, two rams, and sixteen lambs: and his meat offering, and their drink offerings, according to their manner; these also were offered with the daily sacrifice, according to the law and rule prescribed for the making of them, and all were for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord; for they were burnt sacrifices, and very acceptable to the Lord, as they were types of the better sacrifice, with which he is infinitely well pleased

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i. The day called out — the seventh month and the festal blast — 29:1

The unit opens on the head of the seventh month, the holiest month of Israel's year. Matthew Henry states it plainly: "There were more sacred solemnities in the seventh month than in any other," the harvest gathered and seed-time not yet come, a season of leisure given over to God. The day is a miqrâ qōḏeš — not first an "assembly" but a "holy calling-out" (from qârâ, to call): the people are summoned, and the gathering is their answer. On it no melʼeḵeṯ ʻăḇōḏâh, no "servile work," may be done — laborious occupational toil, which is why Gill notes the parallel Leviticus 23:24 calls it a "sabbath." The day's name is its sound: yôwm tᵉrûwʻâh, "a day of blowing / acclamation" — a rare word (33 occurrences) that elsewhere names the war-alarm (Numbers 10:5-6), the shout that felled Jericho (Joshua 6:5), and, decisively, the Jubilee trumpet sounded on the Day of Atonement (Leviticus 25:9). The Hebrew specifies no instrument; the festal cry itself, of voice or horn, ushers in the month. Jamieson, Fausset & Brown call it "the New Year's Day ... ushered in by a flourish of trumpets," given "a religious character" by being bound to solemn observance — joy summoned to worship.

ii. The ascending gift — bull, ram, lambs, and the aroma of rest — 29:2-4

The sacrifice itself is an ʻôlâh — a "burnt-offering," but the word means "that which ascends" (from ʻâlâh, to go up): the whole victim climbs to God in smoke, nothing kept back. It rises lᵉrêaḥ nîḥōaḥ, "for a restful / soothing aroma" — nîychôwach, the rare word (43 occurrences, kin to Noah's name) that frames the whole festal sacrifice as smoke that settles the relation between God and worshipper. The count is one bull, one ram, seven yearling lambs, all tᵉmîmim — "whole, complete, without defect" (tâmîym, the word also rendered "blameless" of persons). The Pulpit Commentary notes the day's bull is one fewer than the new-moon's two, and is candid that "the reason of the difference is wholly unknown." With every animal ascends a minḥâh, a tribute-gift of fine flour (sōleṯ, the choicest siftings) bᵉlûlâh, "drenched" with oil — graduated three-tenths, two-tenths, one-tenth as the victim is larger or smaller. Gill ties the measures to one rule across all the feasts (the new moons, unleavened bread, firstfruits, Numbers 28); Matthew Henry draws the method from it — "those who would know the mind of God in the Scriptures, must compare one part with another."

iii. The shaggy one and the covering — atonement beneath the joy — 29:5-6

Then, at the day's heart, a single goat: śᵉʻîr ʻizzîm, "a shaggy one of the goats" (sâʻîyr, "shaggy" — the same word for the scapegoat of Leviticus 16), brought lᵉḥaṭṭāʼṯ, "for a sin-offering," lᵉḵappêr ʻălêḵem, "to cover over you" (kâphar, to smear over, as pitch covers a hull). Jamieson, Fausset & Brown mark what is genuinely new here: where Leviticus 23:25 commanded a burnt-offering but did not specify it, Numbers 29 adds "a sin offering ... prescribed." The festal joy of the trumpet rests on expiation; Gill reads the goat as covering "the sins of their holy things" — even the worship needs cleansing. Albert Barnes sees the whole day forward: its "special offering ... anticipated that of the great Day of Atonement," ten days later. The unit closes (v.6) on one structural word, millᵉḇaḏ, "besides": these are added to, never instead of, the tâmîd, the "continual" daily offering, and the monthly new-moon rite. Keil & Delitzsch totals it all from that word — three bullocks, two rams, sixteen lambs, and a goat in a single day, the extraordinary feast stacked upon the unbroken ordinary worship, the whole an ʼishsheh, a "fire-offering," of restful aroma to the LORD.

Read under Sola Scriptura — this tool’s own fallible reading (⚙)

Read under Sola Scriptura and weighed against the rest of the canon, this short ordinance is more than a sacrificial schedule: it is the doorway into Israel's holiest season. The trumpet-blast (tᵉrûwʻâh) that opens the seventh month is the same blast that, ten days on, will open the Day of Atonement and the Jubilee (Leviticus 25:9); the day's burnt-offerings ascend whole and unblemished (tâmîym), and yet — and this is the heart — they are not enough by themselves. A sin-offering goat is added that Leviticus 23 did not name, "to cover (kâphar) over you." The pattern preaches: joy is summoned by trumpet, but joy stands on atonement; the people are called out (miqrâ) to rejoice, and the rejoicing is grounded in a covering for sin. The unblemished victim that wholly ascends, and the shaggy goat that bears the guilt, together sketch what no single beast could be — a perfect offering that is also a sin-bearer. My fallible reading: the Feast of Trumpets is the Old Testament's annual summons to be ready — its blast a call to a reckoning not yet come, its expiation a placeholder for an atonement these rites could only anticipate and never finish. Whether the trumpet that here opens a month finds its answer in the trumpet that announces the Day of the Lord, and whether the unblemished-yet-sin-bearing pair finds its union in one Person, the text raises and leaves for the rest of Scripture to settle.

The horn was blown before the blood was shed: a day of joy summoned by a trumpet, and grounded on a covering for sin. (a reader's line, not Scripture)

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The institution itself — the Feast of Trumpets in Leviticus 23 verbal / quotation — confirmed

Numbers 29:1 re-states and fills out the ordinance first given in Leviticus 23:23-25. The Verifier records the shared rare lexemes tᵉrûwʻâh ("the blowing / festal blast," only 33 occurrences) and miqrâʼ ("holy convocation / calling-out," 22 occurrences), together with shᵉbîyʻîy ("seventh") and chôdesh ("month / new moon"). The low frequency of tᵉrûwʻâh and miqrâʼ makes this a verbal link, not merely a thematic one — Numbers is verbally restating the same statute. The Pulpit Commentary, Benson, and Gill all cross-reference Leviticus 23:24 explicitly; JFB notes Numbers adds "more particularity ... as to what the burnt offering should consist of," plus the sin-offering Leviticus left unspecified — the later text supplying what the former left wanting.

Leviticus 23:24 · Leviticus 23:25

basis: Verifier (Numbers 29:1 ↔ Leviticus 23:24): shared rare lexemes H8643 tᵉrûwʻâh (33 vv) and H4744 miqrâʼ (22 vv), with H7637 shᵉbîyʻîy and H2320 chôdesh — the low frequency of the trumpet-blast and convocation terms marks this as a verbal restatement of the same statute, not merely a shared theme

The pleasing aroma and its grain-gift — the festal-offering formula verbal / quotation — confirmed

The offering-language of vv.2-3 — nîḥōaḥ lᵉrêaḥ ("a pleasing/restful aroma") with its accompanying minḥâh ("grain-gift") of flour and oil — is the fixed liturgical formula of the festal calendar, recurring at Leviticus 23:13 (the firstfruits sheaf) and throughout Numbers 28. Two distinct rare-word links bind the unit to Leviticus 23:13: at v.2 the Verifier records the shared nîychôwach ("restful aroma," 43 occurrences) and rêyach ("odor," 55 occurrences), and at v.3 the even rarer grain-offering triplet ʻissârôwn ("tenth," only 22 occurrences), bâlal ("drenched with oil," 41 occurrences), and çôleth ("fine flour," 52 occurrences). Because both the aroma-pair and the grain-triplet are rare words reused intact, the link is verbal: the same set phrases are poured into each feast's rite, binding Trumpets to the whole sacrificial year. The parallel within Numbers itself (28:13) carries the same aroma-formula.

Leviticus 23:13 · Numbers 28:13

basis: Verifier (Numbers 29:2 ↔ Leviticus 23:13): shared rare lexemes H5207 nîychôwach (43 vv) and H7381 rêyach (55 vv); and (Numbers 29:3 ↔ Leviticus 23:13): the rarer grain triplet H6241 ʻissârôwn (22 vv), H1101 bâlal (41 vv), H5560 çôleth (52 vv) — two independent rare-word matches confirm the festal offering-formula is reused verbatim. Numbers 28:13 (shared H5207/H7381/H3532/H5930) is the parallel within the same offering-corpus

Stacked on the new moon — the day that doubles the monthly rite structural / thematic — confirmed

Because the seventh month's head is itself a new-moon day, the Trumpets sacrifice (one bull, one ram, seven lambs) sits atop the standing new-moon offering of two bulls, one ram, seven lambs (Numbers 28:11). The Verifier records shared lexemes tâmîym ("unblemished," 85 vv), kebes ("lamb," 100 vv), par ("bull," 119 vv), and ʼayil ("ram," 170 vv) — the common stock of the offering-lists. These are moderately frequent sacrificial terms, so the link is a shared pattern, not a unique quotation. Keil & Delitzsch and Gill build their day's total directly on this stacking (the v.6 "besides"): the festal offering adds to, never replaces, both the daily and the monthly rite.

Numbers 28:11 · Numbers 28:12 · Numbers 28:13

basis: Verifier (Numbers 29:2 ↔ Numbers 28:11): shared lexemes H8549 tâmîym (85 vv), H3532 kebes (100 vv), H6499 par (119 vv), H352 ʼayil (170 vv) — the standard offering-list vocabulary; moderate frequencies make this a shared structural pattern of the sacrificial calendar, not a rare-word quotation

The trumpet of the seventh month — the Jubilee and the Day of Atonement structural / thematic — confirmed

The festal blast of Numbers 29:1 binds verbally to Leviticus 25:9, where on the tenth of this same seventh month — the Day of Atonement — "the trumpet of the tᵉrûwʻâh" is sounded to open the Jubilee. The Verifier records the shared rare lexeme tᵉrûwʻâh (33 occurrences) together with shᵉbîyʻîy ("seventh") and chôdesh ("month"). The Trumpets-day blast on the first and the Jubilee blast on the tenth are the same horn opening the same month of atonement and release. Albert Barnes reads the day's offering as one that "anticipated that of the great Day of Atonement" — a thematic judgment the shared rare blast-word corroborates lexically, though Barnes himself cites Leviticus 23, not 25.

Leviticus 25:9 · Leviticus 23:27

basis: Verifier (Numbers 29:1 ↔ Leviticus 25:9): shared rare lexeme H8643 tᵉrûwʻâh (33 vv) with H7637 shᵉbîyʻîy and H2320 chôdesh — the same trumpet-blast word and seventh-month setting; tiered thematic (not verbal) because the link is a shared motif of the month's blasts rather than a restated statute, though the rarity of tᵉrûwʻâh makes the connection strong

The shaggy goat for sin — the sin-offering law and the Day of Atonement structural / thematic — confirmed

The single sin-offering goat of v.5 (śᵉʻîr ʻizzîm, "shaggy one of the goats") draws on the standing sin-offering law of Leviticus 4:23, where the same shaggy he-goat is the prescribed ḥaṭṭāʼṯ for a ruler's sin. The Verifier records shared lexemes sâʻîyr ("shaggy/he-goat," 57 vv), ʻêz ("goat," 74 vv), and chaṭṭâʼâh ("sin / sin-offering," 271 vv). The same shaggy goat returns at the center of the Day of Atonement (Leviticus 16) on the tenth of this month. The link is a shared ritual pattern — the appointed sin-bearer of the cult — rather than a unique quotation, so it is tiered thematic.

Leviticus 4:23 · Leviticus 16:15

basis: Verifier (Numbers 29:5 ↔ Leviticus 4:23): shared lexemes H8163 sâʻîyr (57 vv), H5795 ʻêz (74 vv), H2403 chaṭṭâʼâh (271 vv) — the appointed shaggy-goat sin-offering of the cult; a shared ritual pattern rather than a rare-word quotation, hence thematic

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The unblemished offering of pleasing aroma — Christ given up for us widely-held

The day's burnt-offerings ascend whole and tâmîym ("unblemished, complete") as a nîḥōaḥ lᵉrêaḥ, a "pleasing/restful aroma" to the LORD (vv.2, 6). Gill reads this entire festal sacrifice as figure: the offerings "were very acceptable to the Lord, as they were types of the better sacrifice, with which he is infinitely well pleased." The New Testament takes up the very phrase: "Christ ... hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour" (Ephesians 5:2), and 1 Peter 1:19 names Him "a lamb without blemish." Read forward, the unblemished victim that wholly ascends and gives God rest images the self-offering of Christ. Because this crosses Testaments (Hebrew nîychôwach / tâmîym to Greek euōdia / amōmos) it shares no Strong's lexeme and is offered as a figural reading argued from the apostolic text, not a verbal link — but it is the ancient and widely-held Christian reading of the burnt-offering.

Ephesians 5:2 · 1 Peter 1:19 · Hebrews 9:14

The trumpet and the day of acclamation — the blast that gathers the people novel

The Feast of Trumpets is, by its very name, a yôwm tᵉrûwʻâh — a "day of blowing / acclamation," a festal blast summoning the holy assembly (v.1). The same rare word stands at the Jubilee and the Day of Atonement (Leviticus 25:9). The New Testament gathers up the trumpet of God's appointed day into the announcement of Christ's coming: "the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised" (1 Corinthians 15:52); "the Lord himself shall descend ... with the trump of God" (1 Thessalonians 4:16). Many in the church have read the autumn Feast of Trumpets typologically as the prophetic shadow of that final summons — the blast that opens the month of atonement foreshadowing the blast that opens the Day of the Lord. This is a cross-Testament (Hebrew tᵉrûwʻâh / Greek salpinx) figural reading; it shares no Strong's number and is the more novel and contested of the two, offered to be tested, not assumed — the older commentators here (Benson, JFB, Gill) read the day historically as Israel's new-year summons rather than eschatologically.

1 Corinthians 15:52 · 1 Thessalonians 4:16 · Matthew 24:31

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Named voices, quoted verbatim from public-domain works:

This is a Hebrew-only unit; every thread basis between Numbers 29 and other Old Testament passages rests on shared Strong's lexemes computed by the Verifier, and the frequencies cited (tᵉrûwʻâh in 33 vv, miqrâʼ in 22 vv, nîychôwach in 43 vv, ʻissârôwn in 22 vv) are the recorded ground for tiering a link "verbal" rather than merely "thematic." The strongest connection — Numbers 29:1 to Leviticus 23:24 — is verbal because both the festal blast (tᵉrûwʻâh) and the holy convocation (miqrâʼ) are rare words reused intact; Numbers is restating the same statute, as Benson, the Pulpit Commentary, and Gill all note by cross-reference. The festal-offering formula is doubly anchored to Leviticus 23:13 — by the rare aroma-pair (nîychôwach / rêyach) at v.2 and the still rarer grain triplet (ʻissârôwn / bâlal / çôleth) at v.3 — two independent rare-word matches, not one.

The two cross-Testament Christ readings (to Ephesians/1 Peter, and to 1 Corinthians/1 Thessalonians) are explicitly typological: a Hebrew↔Greek link cannot share a Strong's number, so neither is tiered "verbal" and neither should be read as a quotation claim. The first (unblemished pleasing-aroma offering → Christ) is the long-standing reading and is the one Gill himself argues on this verse ("types of the better sacrifice"); the second (Feast of Trumpets → the last trumpet) is flagged as more novel and contested — the historic commentators on this passage read the day as Israel's new-year summons, not as eschatology, and I have marked it so.

One honesty note on the voices: the Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (v.2) advances a critical-school reading — that the "food offering" language is a survival of older religion in which "the deity really ate and drank the offerings." I have quoted it verbatim to register the disputed view fairly, but Scripture itself repudiates the notion that God eats (Psalm 50:12-13); the phrase ʼishsheh foregrounds the consuming fire, not divine appetite. Matthew Henry's single block comment on 29:1-11 and Keil & Delitzsch's running comment necessarily recur across these verses; I have varied which sentence is featured and prioritized verse-specific voices (Benson, JFB, Barnes, Gill, Geneva, Pulpit, Cambridge, Ellicott, Poole, K&D) where they exist. Several of John Gill's notes are shared across vv.3-5 (a single comment block on the grain- and sin-offerings); the clause featured at each verse is the one bearing on that verse's content.

Finally, Albert Barnes's reading that the Trumpets-day offering "anticipated that of the great Day of Atonement" and the Verifier's lexical link from Numbers 29:1 to Leviticus 25:9 (the Jubilee trumpet sounded on Atonement, shared rare tᵉrûwʻâh) were reached independently — Barnes from the calendar's theology, the tool from shared rare vocabulary — and they corroborate each other. This is noted rather than presented as proof, since Barnes cites Leviticus 23, not 25; corroboration is not the same as the commentator having named that exact verse.

= human, public-domain source, quoted and named. = machine synthesis, to be verified. Flagged cross-references are left visible on purpose — the verifier working in the open. “Search the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so.” (Acts 17:11)