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Numbers 28:22

Made Simple — Modern English Translation

Translated by Verse Made Simple Editorial
KJV ORIGINAL
And one goat for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you.
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✦ MADE SIMPLE

And one goat as a sin offering, to make atonement for you.

⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE

This verse describes God's provision of a goat sacrifice to cover and forgive the people's sins.

📚 Historical Context

This verse is part of God's detailed instructions to Moses about the sacrificial system for Israel's religious festivals. The sin offering was a central part of Old Testament worship, where an animal's death symbolically paid the penalty for human sin. These sacrifices pointed forward to God's ultimate plan of forgiveness through Christ.

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2 Chronicles 29:24
The priests sacrificed the animals and used their blood on the altar to make things right between God and the people, covering the sins of all Israel. The king had ordered that these burnt offerings and sin offerings be made for the entire nation of Israel.
Nehemiah 10:33
For the bread that is displayed before God, for the regular grain offerings, for the regular burnt offerings on Sabbaths and new moon celebrations, for the appointed festivals, for the holy items, and for the sin offerings to make things right between God and Israel, and for everything needed to maintain God's house.
Exodus 29:36
Every day you must offer a young bull as a sacrifice for sin to make atonement. You must cleanse the altar when you have made atonement for it, and you must anoint it with oil to make it holy.

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