Numbers 29:9 (BSB)

together with their grain offerings of fine flour mixed with oil—three-tenths of an ephah with the bull, two-tenths of an ephah with the ram,

From Numbers 29. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 29:9

  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 29:1-11: There were more sacred solemnities in the seventh month than in any other month of the year, not only because it had been the first month till the deliverance of Israel out of Egypt (which, falling in the month Abib, occasioned that to be thenceforth made the beginning of the months in all ecclesiastical computations), but because still it continued the first month in the...
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 29:9: And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have an holy convocation,.... Of the same month Tisri, which was the seventh from Nisan or Abib, though it was formerly the first month of the year: ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord seven days; the feast of tabernacles, which began on the fifteenth day of this month.
  • Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 29:7-11: Num 29:7-11 On the day of atonement, on the tenth of the seventh month, a similar festal sacrifice was to be offered to the one presented on the seventh new moon’s day (a burnt-offering and sin-offering), in addition to the sin-offering of atonement prescribed at Lev 16, and the daily burnt-offerings. For a more minute description of this festival, see at Lev 16 and Lev 23:26-32.