Bilangan 28:11

Monthly Offerings

28:11 “‘On the first day of each month ¹  you must offer as a burnt offering to the Lord two young bulls, one ram, and seven unblemished lambs a year old,

Bilangan 28:2

28:2 “Command the Israelites: ²  ‘With regard to my offering, ³  be sure to offer ⁴  my food for my offering made by fire, as a pleasing aroma to me at its appointed time.’ ⁵ 

1 Tawarikh 2:4

2:4 Tamar, Judah’s ⁶  daughter-in-law, bore to him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all.

Ezra 3:5

3:5 Afterward they offered the continual burnt offerings and those for the new moons and those for all the holy assemblies of the Lord and all those that were being voluntarily offered to the Lord.

[28:11]  ¹ tn Heb “of your months.”

[28:2]  ² tn Heb “and say to them.” These words have not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[28:2]  ³ tn Th sentence begins with the accusative “my offering.” It is suspended at the beginning as an independent accusative to itemize the subject matter. The second accusative is the formal object of the verb. It could also be taken in apposition to the first accusative.

[28:2]  ⁴ tn The construction uses the imperfect tense expressing instruction, followed by the infinitive construct used to express the complement of direct object.

[28:2]  ⁵ sn See L. R. Fisher, “New Ritual Calendar from Ugarit,” HTR 63 (1970): 485-501.

[2:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.