Numbers 29:1-6 | The Way of Scripture

Numbers 29:1-6

What makes the first day of the seventh month a distinct occasion?

Berean Standard Bible

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. 2 As 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, 3 together 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, 4 and a tenth of an ephah with each of the seven male lambs. 5 Include one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for you. 6 These 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.

What is the context?

The first day of the seventh month calls for a sacred assembly, a pause from regular work, and the sounding of trumpets. The prescribed animals and accompanying grain offerings are presented as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

A goat is included for atonement. The passage expressly adds these offerings to both the monthly and daily offerings, so the different observances on the same date accumulate rather than cancel each other.

How is this passage commonly understood?

Wesley explains the monthly offering here as the offering belonging to each new moon. This clarifies why a seventh-month festival, a new moon, and the regular daily service all appear in one instruction. The text does not itself identify these trumpet sounds with a dated New Testament event.

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