28:9 “‘On the Sabbath day, you must offer 1 two unblemished lambs a year old, and two-tenths of an ephah 2 of finely ground flour as a grain offering, mixed with olive oil, along with its drink offering. 28:10 This is the burnt offering for every Sabbath, 3 besides the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.
1 tn The words “you must offer” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied. They have been supplied in the translation to make a complete English sentence.
2 sn That is, about 4 quarts.
3 tn Heb “the burnt offering of the Sabbath by its Sabbath.”
4 tn Grk “gave you circumcision.”
5 tn Grk “a man.” While the text literally reads “circumcise a man” in actual fact the practice of circumcising male infants on the eighth day after birth (see Phil 3:5) is primarily what is in view here.
6 tn Grk “a man.” See the note on “male child” in the previous verse.
7 tn Grk “receives circumcision.”
8 sn If a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken. The Rabbis counted 248 parts to a man’s body. In the Talmud (b. Yoma 85b) R. Eleazar ben Azariah (ca.
9 tn Or “made an entire man well.”