Numbers 28:11

Monthly Offerings

28:11 “‘On the first day of each month ¹  you must offer as a burnt offering to the Lord two young bulls, one ram, and seven unblemished lambs a year old,

Numbers 10:10

10:10 “Also in the time when you rejoice, such as ²  on your appointed festivals or ³  at the beginnings of your months, you must blow with your trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings, so that they may ⁴  become ⁵  a memorial for you before your God: I am the Lord your God.”

[28:11]  ¹ tn Heb “of your months.”

[10:10]  ² tn The conjunction may be taken as explicative or epexegetical, and so rendered “namely; even; that is,” or it may be taken as emphatic conjunction, and translated “especially.”

[10:10]  ³ tn The vav (ו) is taken here in its alternative use and translated “or.”

[10:10]  ⁴ tn The form is the perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive. After the instruction imperfects, this form could be given the same nuance, or more likely, subordinated as a purpose or result clause.

[10:10]  ⁵ tn The verb “to be” (הָיָה, hayah) has the meaning “to become” when followed by the preposition lamed (ל).