Numbers 28:11

_AND IN THE BEGINNINGS OF YOUR MONTHS YE SHALL OFFER A BURNT OFFERING UNTO THE LORD; TWO YOUNG BULLOCKS, AND ONE RAM, SEVEN LAMBS OF THE FIRST YEAR WITHOUT SPOT;_ In the beginnings of your months. These were held as sacred festivals; and though not possessing the character of solemn feasts, they were distinguished by the blowing of trumpets over the sacrifices (Numbers 10:10), by the suspension of all labour, except the domestic occupations of women (Amos 8:5), by the celebration of public worship (2 Kings 4:23), and by social or family feasts (1 Samuel 20:5). These observances are not prescribed in the law, though they obtained

9-15 Every sabbath day, beside the two lambs offered for the daily burnt-offering, there must be two more offered. This teaches us to double our devotions on sabbath days, for so the duty of the day requires. The sabbath rest is to be observed, in order more closely to apply ourselves to the sabbath work, which ought to fill up the sabbath time. The offerings in the new moons showed thankfulness for the renewing of earthly blessings: when we rejoice in the gifts of providence, we must make the sacrifice of Christ, that great gift of special grace, the fountain and spring-head of our joy. And the worship performed in the new moons is made typical of gospel solemnities, Isaiah 66:23. As the moon borrows light from the sun, and is renewed by its influences; so the church borrows her light from Jesus Christ, who is the Sun of righteousness, renewing the state of the church, especially under...

The New-moon offering is here also commanded for the first time. The goat as a sin-offering, though mentioned last, would seem in fact to have been offered first (compare the precedents in Exodus 29; Leviticus 5; Leviticus 8; Leviticus 9; Leviticus 14; Leviticus 16). The sin-offering, which Numbers 15:22 had been contemplated in cases where a sin had been committed ignorantly without the knowledge

EXPOSITION THE ROUTINE OF SACRIFICIAL OFFERINGS (Numbers 28:1, Numbers 29:1). NUMBERS 28:1 THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES. It is impossible to say with any assurance whether the law of offerings contained in these two chapters was really given to Moses shortly before his death, or whether it was ever given in this connected and completed form. It is obvious that the formula with which the section opens might be used with equal propriety to introduce a digest of the law on this subject compiled by Moses himself, or by some subsequent editor of his writings from a number of scattered reg

AND IN THE BEGINNINGS OF YOUR MONTHS YE SHALL OFFER A BURNT OFFERING UNTO THE LORD,.... On the first day of every month, when the new moon appeared; that this was religiously observed appears from the blowing of the trumpets over the sacrifices on this day, from attendance on the word of the Lord, by his prophets, on this day, and from abstinence from worldly business on it, Numbers 10:10 TWO YOUNG BULLOCKS, AND ONE RAM, SEVEN RAMS OF THE FIRST YEAR WITHOUT SPOT; this was the burnt offering, and a very large and costly one it was: more creatures were offered on this day than on a sabbath day; not that this was a more holy day than that, but this was but once a month, and therefore the expense might be the more easily bore, whereas that was every week....

5. THE OFFERINGS AND THE SET TIMES CHAPTER 28 _ 1. The daily offerings (Numbers 28:1)_ 2. The Sabbatic offerings (Numbers 28:9) 3. The monthly offerings (Numbers 28:11) 4. The Passover (Numbers 28:16) 5. The firstfruits (Numbers 28:26) CHAPTER 29 _ 1. The blowing of trumpets (Numbers 29:1)_ 2. The day of atonement ...

NUMBERS 28-29. THE NATURE AND AMOUNT OF THE OFFERINGS REQUIRED ON VARIOUS HOLY DAYS. The quantities prescribed for special festivals did not exhaust all the sacrifices offered upon them: on every festival the special sacrifices were supplemented by the daily offerings; on the first of the seventh month the distinctive offerings were supplemented by the offerings required for the first of each ordinary month; whilst on the tenth of the seventh month the sin offering of atonement (Leviticus 16) was supplementary to the other sacrifices here enjoined. For the ephah and hin, see Numbers 15:4 *....

OFFER. bring near. Hebrew. _karav._ App-43....

P _The amounts of public offerings at the sacred seasons_ The following are the seasons for which offerings are enjoined: (1) every morning and evening (Numbers 28:3-8), (2) the Sabbath (Numbers 28:9 f.), (3) the first day of each month (Numbers 28:11) [the Passover is mentioned Numbers 28:16), but no offering is commanded], (4) the seven days of Unleavened Cakes (Numbers 28:17), (5) the Feast of Weeks (Numbers 28:26), (6) the first day of the sacred s

AND IN THE BEGINNINGS OF YOUR MONTHS, YE SHALL OFFER— As the first stated sacrifice was daily, Numbers 28:3 the second weekly, Numbers 28:9 so the third was monthly, to be offered upon the first day of every month: and it is thought by some to have been ordained in opposition to the idolatry of the Gentiles, who were wont to worship the new moon with great rejoicings. See Spencer, de Leg. Heb. lib. 3: Dissert. 4. But as one of the most natural divisions of time is by the periodical revolutions of the moon, which, in the more serene climates, could be easily observed by all; so it is not improbable, as Le Clerc has well remarked, that the solemn celebration of the new moon, in honour of the true God, was in use even before the rise of idolatry, and might make a part of the patriarchal religion; consequently, thi