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11 One goat will be a purification offering. These are in addition to the purification offering for purging,[a] the regular burnt offering with its grain offering, and their libations.

On the Feast of Booths. 12 [b]On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you will declare a holy day:(A) you shall do no heavy work. For the following seven days you will celebrate a pilgrimage feast to the Lord. 13 You will offer a burnt offering, an oblation of pleasing aroma to the Lord: thirteen bulls[c] of the herd, two rams, and fourteen yearling lambs that are unblemished.

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Footnotes

  1. 29:11 The purification offering for purging: the bull prescribed in Lv 16:11–12 for the purging of the tent sanctuary.
  2. 29:12 This feast of Booths (Tabernacles or Sukkot) celebrating the vintage harvest was the most popular of all and therefore had the most elaborate ritual. See note on Lv 23:34.
  3. 29:13 Thirteen bulls: the number of bulls sacrificed before the octave day was seventy, arranged on a descending scale so that the number on the seventh day was the sacred number seven.

11 Include one male goat(A) as a sin offering, in addition to the sin offering for atonement and the regular burnt offering(B) with its grain offering, and their drink offerings.(C)

The Festival of Tabernacles(D)

12 “‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh(E) month,(F) hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. Celebrate a festival to the Lord for seven days. 13 Present as an aroma pleasing to the Lord(G) a food offering consisting of a burnt offering of thirteen young bulls, two rams and fourteen male lambs a year old, all without defect.(H)

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