Numbers 29:21
New International Version
With the bulls, rams and lambs, offer their grain offerings and drink offerings according to the number specified.

New Living Translation
Each of these offerings of bulls, rams, and lambs must be accompanied by its prescribed grain offering and liquid offering.

English Standard Version
with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;

Berean Standard Bible
along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.

Berean Literal Bible
and their grain offerings and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their number, according to the ordinance,

King James Bible
And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:

New King James Version
and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their number, according to the ordinance;

New American Standard Bible
and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance;

NASB 1995
and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance;

NASB 1977
and their grain offering and their libations for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance;

Legacy Standard Bible
and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the legal judgment;

Amplified Bible
with their grain offering and drink offerings for the bulls, the rams, and the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance,

Berean Annotated Bible
along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.

Christian Standard Bible
with their grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, in proportion to their number.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
with their grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, in proportion to their number.

American Standard Version
and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;

English Revised Version
and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Along with them bring the proper amount of grain offerings and wine offerings for each of the bulls, rams, and lambs.

International Standard Version
along with corresponding grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to their number, based on the ordinances,

NET Bible
and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number as prescribed,

New Heart English Bible
and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;

Webster's Bible Translation
And their meat-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
Majority Text Translations
Majority Standard Bible
along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.

World English Bible
and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and their present and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, in their number, according to the ordinance;

Berean Literal Bible
and their grain offerings and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their number, according to the ordinance,

Young's Literal Translation
and their present, and their libations, for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, in their number, according to the ordinance;

Smith's Literal Translation
And their gift and their libations for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, according to judgment:
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for the calves and for the rams and for the lambs you shall offer according to the rite:

Catholic Public Domain Version
And the sacrifices and libations for each of the calves and the rams and the lambs, you shall celebrate according to the rite,

New American Bible
with the grain offerings and libations for the bulls, rams and lambs in their prescribed number,

New Revised Standard Version
with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, as prescribed in accordance with their number;
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
And their meal offering and their drink offering for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, according to the ritual;

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And their meal offering and their drink offering of an ox and of a ram and of a lamb, by their number, according to their portion:
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Their meat-offering and their drink-offering shall be to the calves and to the rams and to the lambs according to their number, according to their ordinance.

Additional Translations ...



Context
The Feast of Tabernacles
20On the third day you are to present eleven bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old, all unblemished, 21along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed. 22Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offering.…

Cross References
along with the grain and drink offerings

Numbers 15:4-10
then the one presenting his offering to the LORD shall also present a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a quarter hin of olive oil. / With the burnt offering or sacrifice of each lamb, you are to prepare a quarter hin of wine as a drink offering. / With a ram you are to prepare a grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of olive oil, …

Leviticus 23:18
Along with the bread you are to present seven unblemished male lambs a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the LORD, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings—a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

Exodus 29:40-41
With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with a quarter hin of oil from pressed olives, and a drink offering of a quarter hin of wine. / And offer the second lamb at twilight with the same grain offering and drink offering as in the morning, as a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.
for the bulls, rams, and lambs,

Numbers 28:11-15
At the beginning of every month, you are to present to the LORD a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old, all unblemished, / along with three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering with each bull, two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering with the ram, / and a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering with each lamb. This is a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD. …

2 Chronicles 29:21-22
They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats as a sin offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And the king commanded the priests, the descendants of Aaron, to offer them on the altar of the LORD. / So they slaughtered the bulls, and the priests took the blood and splattered it on the altar. They slaughtered the rams and splattered the blood on the altar. And they slaughtered the lambs and splattered the blood on the altar.
according to the number prescribed.

Numbers 15:11-12
This is to be done for each bull, ram, lamb, or goat. / This is how you must prepare each one, no matter how many.

Ezra 8:35
Then the exiles who had returned from captivity sacrificed burnt offerings to the God of Israel: 12 bulls for all Israel, 96 rams, 77 lambs, and a sin offering of 12 male goats. All this was a burnt offering to the LORD.
Leviticus 23:33-36
And the LORD said to Moses, / “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the Feast of Tabernacles to the LORD begins, and it continues for seven days. / On the first day there shall be a sacred assembly. You must not do any regular work. …

Exodus 29:38-42
This is what you are to offer regularly on the altar, each day: two lambs that are a year old. / Offer one lamb in the morning and the other at twilight. / With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with a quarter hin of oil from pressed olives, and a drink offering of a quarter hin of wine. …

2 Chronicles 8:12-13
At that time Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD he had built in front of the portico. / He observed the daily requirement for offerings according to the commandment of Moses for Sabbaths, New Moons, and the three annual appointed feasts—the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles.

Ezra 3:4
They also celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles in accordance with what is written, and they offered burnt offerings daily based on the number prescribed for each day.

Nehemiah 8:14-18
And they found written in the Law, which the LORD had commanded through Moses, that the Israelites were to dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month, / and that they should proclaim this message and spread it throughout their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the hill country and bring back branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.” / And the people went out, brought back branches, and made booths on their own rooftops, in their courtyards, in the courts of the house of God, and in the squares by the Water Gate and by the Gate of Ephraim. …

1 Kings 8:65-66
So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast before the LORD our God for seven days and seven more days—fourteen days in all. / On the fifteenth day Solomon sent the people away. So they blessed the king and went home, joyful and glad in heart for all the good things that the LORD had done for His servant David and for His people Israel.

2 Chronicles 7:8-10
So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a very great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast for seven days. / On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for the dedication of the altar had lasted seven days, and the feast seven days more. / On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, Solomon sent the people away to their homes, joyful and glad of heart for the good things that the LORD had done for David, for Solomon, and for His people Israel.

Deuteronomy 16:13-15
You are to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress. / And you shall rejoice in your feast—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you. / For seven days you shall celebrate a feast to the LORD your God in the place He will choose, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that your joy will be complete.

1 Chronicles 23:31
Whenever burnt offerings were presented to the LORD on the Sabbaths, New Moons, and appointed feasts, they were to serve regularly before the LORD in the numbers prescribed for them.


Treasury of Scripture

And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:

drink offerings

Psalm 16:4
Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.

Joel 1:9,13
The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn…

Joel 2:14
Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?

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Numbers 29
1. The offering at the feast of trumpets
7. At the day of afflicting their souls
12. And on the eight days of the feast of tabernacles












along with the grain and drink offerings

Grain and drink offerings accompanied the animal sacrifices, presenting the produce of the land and its fruit before the Lord. Fine flour, oil, and wine expressed Israel’s dependence on God for daily provision and acknowledged that all sustenance belonged to Him.

Num 15:4-10 then the one presenting his offering to the LORD…
Lev 23:18 Along with the bread you are to present…
Exo 29:40-41 With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah…

for the bulls, rams, and lambs,

The required animals were offered in the stated order and quantity for the Feast of Tabernacles. Bulls represented strength, rams leadership and authority, and lambs innocence and purity. Each sacrifice was without blemish, honoring God’s holiness and maintaining the covenant worship He commanded for the nation.

Num 28:11-15 At the beginning of every month, you are to present…
2Ch 29:21-22 They brought seven bulls, seven rams, and seven lambs…

according to the number prescribed.

Israel was not free to alter the offerings according to preference. The appointed number preserved order in public worship and required the whole community to approach God on His terms.

Num 15:11-12 This is to be done for each bull, ram, lamb, or goat.…
Ezr 8:35 Then the exiles who had returned from captivity…

Persons / Places / Events
1. Israelites
The people of God who are receiving instructions on how to conduct offerings during the Feast of Tabernacles.

2. Moses
The leader of the Israelites who is conveying God's commandments regarding the offerings.

3. Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot)
A significant Jewish festival that involves various offerings, including those mentioned in this verse.

4. Bulls, Rams, and Lambs
The animals specified for the offerings, each with symbolic significance in the sacrificial system.

5. Wilderness
The setting where the Israelites are receiving these instructions as they journey towards the Promised Land.
Teaching Points
Obedience to God's Commands
The Israelites were required to follow specific instructions for offerings, emphasizing the importance of obedience in worship.

Symbolism of Sacrifices
Each animal in the offering has symbolic meaning, pointing to aspects of atonement and dedication to God.

God's Provision and Timing
The detailed instructions for offerings reflect God's provision and perfect timing in the lives of His people.

Christ as the Ultimate Sacrifice
The sacrificial system foreshadows Christ's ultimate sacrifice, which fulfills and surpasses these offerings.

Community Worship
The collective nature of these offerings during the Feast of Tabernacles highlights the importance of communal worship and celebration.
Bible Study Questions and Answers
1. What is the meaning of Numbers 29:21?

2. How does Numbers 29:21 emphasize the importance of following God's specific instructions?

3. What can we learn about God's character from the offerings in Numbers 29:21?

4. How do the offerings in Numbers 29:21 connect to Christ's ultimate sacrifice?

5. How can we apply the principle of obedience from Numbers 29:21 today?

6. What does Numbers 29:21 teach about the significance of communal worship and sacrifice?

7. What is the significance of the sacrifices mentioned in Numbers 29:21 for modern believers?

8. How do the offerings in Numbers 29:21 reflect God's expectations of worship?

9. Why are specific numbers of sacrifices detailed in Numbers 29:21?

10. What are the top 10 Lessons from Numbers 29?


Numbers 29:21 ties every animal sacrifice of Tabernacles to its grain and drink counterparts, showing worship as a holistic offering of strength (bulls), devotion (rams), innocence (lambs), and daily provision (grain and wine). The exact “number prescribed” highlights God’s order. Altogether the verse invites believers to surrender their best, live under Christ’s substitution, and pour out daily resources in grateful, precise obedience.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
along with the grain and drink offerings
וּמִנְחָתָ֣ם (ū·min·ḥā·ṯām)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 4503: A donation, tribute, a sacrificial offering

for the bulls,
לַ֠פָּרִים (lap·pā·rîm)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 6499: Young bull, steer

rams,
לָאֵילִ֧ם (lā·’ê·lim)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 352: Strength, strong, a chief, a ram, a pilaster, an oak, strong tree

and lambs,
וְלַכְּבָשִׂ֛ים (wə·lak·kə·ḇā·śîm)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 3532: A lamb

according to the number
בְּמִסְפָּרָ֖ם (bə·mis·pā·rām)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 4557: A number, definite, indefinite, narration

prescribed.
כַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט׃ (kam·miš·pāṭ)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4941: A verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style


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