Numbers 6:14-16

Contemporary English Version

¹⁴and offer three animals that have nothing wrong with them: a year-old ram as a sacrifice to please me, a year-old female lamb as a sacrifice for sin, and a full-grown ram as a sacrifice to ask my blessing.^[a] ¹⁵Wine offerings and grain sacrifices must also be brought with these animals. Finally, you are to bring a basket of bread made with your finest flour and olive oil, but without yeast. Also bring some thin wafers brushed with oil.

¹⁶The priest will take these gifts to my altar and offer them, so that I will be pleased and will forgive you.

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Footnotes

6.14 sacrifice to ask my blessing: This sacrifice has traditionally been called a “peace offering” or an “offering of well-being.” A main purpose of such a sacrifice was to ask the Lord's blessing, and so in the CEV it is often called a “sacrifice to ask the Lord's blessing.”

Numbers 6:14-16

New International Version

¹⁴There they are to present their offerings to the Lord: a year-old male lamb without defect^(A) for a burnt offering, a year-old ewe lamb without defect for a sin offering,^(B) a ram^(C) without defect for a fellowship offering,^(D) ¹⁵together with their grain offerings^(E) and drink offerings,^(F) and a basket of bread made with the finest flour and without yeast—thick loaves with olive oil mixed in, and thin loaves brushed with olive oil.^(G)