Numbers 29:35 - Forerunner Commentary

Numbers 29:35

33 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;

34 also one goat as a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering.

35 ‘On the eighth day you shall have a ^asacred assembly. You shall do no customary work.

36 You shall present a burnt offering, an offering made by fire as a sweet aroma to the Lord: one bull, one ram, seven lambs in their first year without blemish,

37 and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, by their number, according to the ordinance;

38 also one goat as a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering.

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Numbers 29:35-38

So here we have it this day that we're keeping now. The Last Great Day is the eighth day of the Feast of Tabernacles. It is part of the Feast of Tabernacles, yet distinctive and different because he mentions that we keep the Feast of Tabernacles in verse 34 for seven days. And then, the eighth day is "tacked on" it seems at the end. It is the last great hurrah of God's feasts for the year.

Let's go on to Numbers 29:35-38. If you want to have a memory cue for the context of chapter 29, it is a list of all the offerings that are given for all the Feast days throughout the year. In this chapter, the Last Great Day, the eighth day is set apart somewhat more than in Leviticus 23 from the Feast of Tabernacles. It is given it's own separate paragraph.

So, there were quite a few things that needed to be done on this Last Great Day. If you notice in comparison to the other days this was normal for a holy day.

Excerpted from An Abundance of Living Water by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

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