Numbers 28:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And thou shalt say unto them, This is the offering made by fire which ye shall offer unto Jehovah: he-lambs a year old without blemish, two day by day, for a continual burnt-offering.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ לָהֶ֔ם זֶ֚ה הָֽאִשֶּׁ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר תַּקְרִ֖יבוּ לַיהוָ֑ה כְּבָשִׂ֨ים בְּנֵֽי־שָׁנָ֧ה תְמִימִ֛ם שְׁנַ֥יִם לַיּ֖וֹם עֹלָ֥ה תָמִֽיד׃

Transliteration

And wəʾāmartā to them: this is the hāʾiššeh which taqrîbû to YHWH: kəbāśîm bənê-šānâ təmîmim two for the day, ʿōlâ tāmîd

Grammar Details

• *wəʾāmartā*: waw-consecutive + Qal perfect, 2nd masculine singular - and you shall say
• *hāʾiššeh*: definite article + noun, masculine singular - the fire offering
• *taqrîbû*: Hiphil imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you shall offer/bring near
• *YHWH*: proper noun, divine name - Yahweh/LORD
• *kəbāśîm*: noun, masculine plural - lambs
• *bənê*: noun, masculine plural construct - sons of
• *šānâ*: noun, feminine singular - year
• *təmîmim*: adjective, masculine plural - unblemished/perfect
• *ʿōlâ*: noun, feminine singular - burnt offering
• *tāmîd*: adverb - continually/regularly

Word Meanings

• *hāʾiššeh*: the fire-offering/burnt sacrifice
• *taqrîbû*: you shall offer/present/bring near
• *kəbāśîm bənê-šānâ*: year-old lambs/lambs in first year
• *təmîmim*: unblemished/perfect/without defect
• *ʿōlâ tāmîd*: continual burnt offering/perpetual sacrifice

Referenced Verses

• Lev 6:9 : 9 Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt-offering: the burnt-offering shall be on the hearth upon the altar all night unto the morning; and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning thereon.
• Ezek 46:13-15 : 13 And thou shalt prepare a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt-offering unto Jehovah daily: morning by morning shalt thou prepare it. 14 And thou shalt prepare a meal-offering with it morning by morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of a hin of oil, to moisten the fine flour; a meal-offering unto Jehovah continually by a perpetual ordinance. 15 Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meal-offering, and the oil, morning by morning, for a continual burnt-offering.
• Dan 8:13 : 13 Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said unto that certain one who spake, How long shall be the vision [concerning] the continual [burnt-offering], and the transgression that maketh desolate, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?
• Dan 11:31 : 31 And forces shall stand on his part, and they shall profane the sanctuary, even the fortress, and shall take away the continual [burnt-offering], and they shall set up the abomination that maketh desolate.
• Dan 12:11 : 11 And from the time that the continual [burnt-offering] shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand and two hundred and ninety days.
• John 1:29 : 29 On the morrow he seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold, the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world!
• 1 Pet 1:19-20 : 19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb without spot, {G299} even the blood of Christ: 20 who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was manifested at the end of times for your sake,
• Rev 13:8 : 8 And all that dwell on the earth shall worship him, [every one] whose name hath not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that hath been slain.
• Exod 29:38-42 : 38 Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually. 39 The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even: 40 and with the one lamb a tenth part [of an ephah] of fine flour mingled with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink-offering. 41 And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according to the meal-offering of the morning, and according to the drink-offering thereof, for a sweet savor, an offering made by fire unto Jehovah. 42 It shall be a continual burnt-offering throughout your generations at the door of the tent of meeting before Jehovah, where I will meet with you, to speak there unto thee.