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Repetition of the law of daily sacrifices. – Law on Sabbath and New Moon sacrifices. – Repetition of the law of Easter, the feast of first fruits. Numbers 28:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Numbers 28:2. Command the children of Israel and say to them, “Take heed that My offering, My bread, as a sacrifice to Me, as a savouring, may be offered to Me in due season.” Numbers 28:3. And say to them, “This is the sacrifice that you must offer to the Lord: two lambs of the first year without blemish per day, for a perpetual burnt offering; Numbers 28:4. One lamb thou shalt offer in the morning, and another lamb thou shalt offer in the evening; Numbers 28:5. and for your grain offering you shall offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of beaten oil; Numbers 28:6. this is a permanent burnt offering, which was made at Mount Sinai, for a pleasant aroma, as a sacrifice to the Lord; Numbers 28:7. and the drink offering thereof shall be a quarter of a hin for one lamb: in the holy place thou shalt pour out a drink offering of wine unto the Lord. Numbers 28:8. Offer another lamb in the evening, with the same grain offering as in the morning, and with the same drink offering, offer it as a sacrifice for a pleasing aroma to the Lord. Numbers 28:9. And on the Sabbath you shall offer two lambs of the first year without blemish, and for your grain offering two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, and a drink offering with it: Numbers 28:10. This is the Sabbath burnt offering on every Sabbath, in addition to the constant burnt offering and drink offerings with it. The double Sabbath sacrifice was performed on top of the regular daily sacrifice. Numbers 28:11. And in your new moons you shall offer burnt offerings to the Lord: from the herd, two bulls, one ram, and seven lambs a year old without blemish, Numbers 28:12. and three tenths of an ephah of flour mixed with oil for a grain offering for one bull, and two tenths of an ephah of flour mixed with oil for a grain offering for a ram, Numbers 28:13. and a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering for each lamb; this is a burnt offering, a sweet aroma, a sacrifice to the Lord; Numbers 28:14. And their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, a third of a hin for a ram, and a quarter of a hin for a lamb; This is a burnt offering in every new moon in all months of the year. Both the Sabbath and New Moon sacrifices are mentioned here for the first time. Numbers 28:15. And you shall offer one goat to the Lord as a sin offering; In addition to the regular burnt offering, he must offer it with his drink offering. The sin offering precedes the burnt offering. When all the sacrifices were offered together, their order was as follows: first of all, 1) a cleansing sacrifice was offered (“for sins”, “troubles” or “for a crime”). After purification by the blood of the said sacrifice, 2) a burnt offering was offered, as a visual expression of a person’s readiness to sacrifice all of himself to God, to devote himself entirely to Him, with all his purified thoughts and purified feelings. After the burnt offering, to mark reconciliation and communion with the Divine, there followed 3) a peace offering, accompanied by a joyful meal. Numbers 28:26. And on the day of firstfruits, when you bring a new grain offering to the Lord in your weeks, you may have a holy convocation; do not do any work; Numbers 28:27. and you shall offer burnt offerings as a pleasing aroma to the Lord: from the herd, two bulls, one ram, and seven lambs a year old [without blemish], Numbers 28:28. and their grain offering was of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for each bull, two tenths of an ephah for each ram, Numbers 28:29. and a tenth of an ephah for each of the seven lambs, Numbers 28:30. and one goat [for a sin offering] for your atonement; Numbers 28:31. in addition to the constant burnt offering and the grain offering with it, offer [this to Me] with their drink offering; You must have them without blemish. The Day of First Fruits was also called the “Feast of Weeks” (Num. 28:26; cf. Lev. 23.14–21; Deut. 16.9–12), i.e., the holiday after the completion of “seven weeks” from “the appearance of the sickle in the harvest.” As the first day after the fulfillment of seven weeks, the holiday received its last name - Pentecost (2 Mac 12.32; Tob 2.1; Acts 2.1; Acts 20.16; 1 Cor 16.8). You might be interested in: