Jo’s Place

Offerings for the Fifth through the Eighth Days of the Festival of Shelters “On the fifth day of the festival, sacrifice nine young bulls, two rams, and fourteen, one-year-old male lambs, all with no defects.  Each of these offerings, of bulls, rams, and lambs, must be accompanied by its prescribed grain offering and liquid offering.  You must also sacrifice a male goat, as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering, with its accompanying grain offering …and liquid offering.  “On the sixth day of the festival, sacrifice eight young bulls, two rams, and fourteen, one-year-old male lambs, all with no defects.  Each of these offerings, of bulls, rams, and lambs, must be accompanied by its prescribed grain offering and liquid offering.  You must also sacrifice a male goat, as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering, with its accompanying grain offering … and liquid offering.  “On the seventh day of the festival, sacrifice seven ...

​ Offerings for the Festival of Trumpets ; and Offerings for the Day of Atonement “Celebrate the Festival of Trumpets, each year, on the first day of the appointed month, in early autumn.  You must call an official day for holy assembly, and you may do no ordinary work.  On that day, you must present a burnt offering, as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.  It will consist of one young bull, one ram, and seven, one-year-old male lambs, all with no defects.  These must be accompanied, by grain offerings, of choice flour, moistened with olive oil—six quarts with the bull, four quarts with the ram, …and two quarts with each, of the seven lambs.  In addition, you must sacrifice a male goat, as a sin offering, to purify yourselves …and make yourselves right with the Lord.  These special sacrifices are in addition, to your regular, monthly, and daily, burnt offerings, …and they must be given, with their prescribed grain offerings …and liquid offerings.  These offe...

​ The Silver Trumpets Now the Lord said to Moses,  “Make two trumpets, of hammered silver, for calling the community, to assemble, and for signaling the breaking of camp.  When both trumpets are blown, everyone must gather before you, at the entrance of the Tabernacle.  But if only one trumpet is blown, then only the leaders—the heads of the clans of Israel—must present themselves to you.  “When you sound the signal to move on, the tribes camped, on the east side of the Tabernacle, must break camp, and move forward.  When you sound the signal a second time, the tribes camped, on the south, will follow.  You must sound short blasts, as the signal for moving on.  But, when you call the people, to an assembly, blow the trumpets, with a different signal.  Only the priests, Aaron’s descendants, are allowed to blow the trumpets.  This is a permanent law for you, to be observed, from generation to generation.  “When you arrive, in your own land...