Please Don't Let the 1st be on a Saturday
Numbers 28: 11-15
In addition to the daily and weekly offerings, they also had monthly sacrifices to make: two young bulls, one ram, and seven one year old male lambs- and these were to be fine specimens- not the gimpy ones. With each bull there's an accompanying grain offering of a flour/oil mixture. There is also one with the ram with a different ratio of flour to oil. Each lamb also has a more diluted mixture required as a grain offering. Each sacrifice also has a requirement of a drink offering (the amount of wine varying with which animal is being sacrificed). In addition, a male goat is to be made as a sin offering.
So, if the first falls on a sabbath, I guess they would have to sacrifice their daily, weekly, and monthly sacrifice on that day. So much for the day of rest.
As with the other sacrifice specification sections, the specifics seem a bit worrisome to me. As someone who doesn't deal well with detail, this kind of requirement would have been disastrous. I would think that the priests would handle all of the particulars, but even so, God's demand of precision here from sacrifice to sacrifice is a little puzzling.
Perhaps there's a profound reason for all of the differences in amounts, but at a cursory glance it seems to be hoops to jump through. But even if it is simply an act of power, it's certainly an appropriate one.
Numbers 28: 11-15
In addition to the daily and weekly offerings, they also had monthly sacrifices to make: two young bulls, one ram, and seven one year old male lambs- and these were to be fine specimens- not the gimpy ones. With each bull there's an accompanying grain offering of a flour/oil mixture. There is also one with the ram with a different ratio of flour to oil. Each lamb also has a more diluted mixture required as a grain offering. Each sacrifice also has a requirement of a drink offering (the amount of wine varying with which animal is being sacrificed). In addition, a male goat is to be made as a sin offering.
So, if the first falls on a sabbath, I guess they would have to sacrifice their daily, weekly, and monthly sacrifice on that day. So much for the day of rest.
As with the other sacrifice specification sections, the specifics seem a bit worrisome to me. As someone who doesn't deal well with detail, this kind of requirement would have been disastrous. I would think that the priests would handle all of the particulars, but even so, God's demand of precision here from sacrifice to sacrifice is a little puzzling.
Perhaps there's a profound reason for all of the differences in amounts, but at a cursory glance it seems to be hoops to jump through. But even if it is simply an act of power, it's certainly an appropriate one.
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