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Numbers 29:35-40
An eighth-day gathering is set with a smaller offering list, followed by a wrap-up that these rules supplement vows and gifts.
Meaning in context
A solemn assembly is commanded for the eighth day, and ordinary labor is prohibited.
The required burnt offering consists of one bull, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all without blemish. Each is presented with its associated grain and drink offering “according to the rule,” indicating a fixed, counted pattern.
A male goat is required as a sin offering, specified as additional to the regular daily burnt offering and its accompaniments.
The text clarifies that appointed offerings do not eliminate other categories such as vow-related and freewill offerings. The closing line emphasizes that Moses transmitted these instructions as commanded.
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Eighth day assembly and closing summary
An eighth-day gathering is set with a smaller offering list, followed by a wrap-up that these rules supplement vows and gifts.
Movement
From Sinai toward the promised land
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Camp, journey, and census records
Biblical Timeline
Exodus & Settlement
Numbers context: 1500 BC - 1000 BC
Biblical Timeline
Exodus & Settlement
Numbers context
Exodus & Settlement / 1500 BC - 1000 BC
Numbers context is set in the exodus and settlement period, where Moses, the exodus, wilderness, covenant instruction, conquest, and judges.
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Thesis
An eighth-day gathering is set with a smaller offering list, followed by a wrap-up that these rules supplement vows and gifts.
Plain Meaning
A solemn assembly is commanded for the eighth day, and ordinary labor is prohibited.
The required burnt offering consists of one bull, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all without blemish. Each is presented with its associated grain and drink offering “according to the rule,” indicating a fixed, counted pattern.
A male goat is required as a sin offering, specified as additional to the regular daily burnt offering and its accompaniments.
The text clarifies that appointed offerings do not eliminate other categories such as vow-related and freewill offerings. The closing line emphasizes that Moses transmitted these instructions as commanded.
Literary Context
This passage stands at the close of the ordered calendar of offerings in Numbers 28–29. After the sequence for the Feast of Booths that begins at Numbers 29:12, the text shifts to the final day and then provides a wrap-up statement tying the whole schedule back to Moses’ role as mediator of instruction.
Historical Context
The instructions assume a community able to coordinate sanctuary rituals, secure animals “without blemish,” and provide measured grain, oil, and wine for accompanying offerings. The “eighth day” gathering reflects a publicly recognizable rhythm of work stoppage and communal assembly embedded in an agrarian, festival-based calendar.
Theological Significance
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