Numbers 29:5 Made Simple

KJV ORIGINAL

And one kid of the goats for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you:

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✦ MADE SIMPLE

And offer one young goat as a sin offering to make atonement for you:

⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE

This verse describes offering a young goat as a sacrifice to cover and forgive the people's sins before God.

📚 Historical Context

This instruction was part of the elaborate sacrificial system God gave to Israel through Moses, specifically for the Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah). The sacrificial system provided a way for the Israelites to maintain their relationship with God by addressing their sins through animal offerings. These offerings pointed forward to the ultimate sacrifice that would come 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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