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32 Seventy bulls, 100 rams, and 200 lambs were brought as sacrifices to please the Lord;[a] 33 600 bulls and 3,000 sheep were brought as sacrifices to ask the Lord's blessing.[b] 34 There were not enough priests to skin all these animals, because many of the priests had not taken the time to go through the ceremony to make themselves clean. However, since all the Levites had made themselves clean, they helped the priests until the last animal was skinned.

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Footnotes

  1. 29.32 sacrifices to please the Lord: See the note at 1.6.
  2. 29.33 sacrifices to ask the Lord's blessing: These sacrifices have traditionally been called “peace offerings” or “offerings of well-being.” A main purpose was to ask for the Lord's blessing, and so in the CEV they are sometimes called “sacrifices to ask the Lord's blessing.”

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