ContradictionsReading order 539Bible context 2 min read
What animals must you sacrifice each day?
Exodus includes a temporary altar purification and the regular lamb offering, while Numbers specifies the same regular two lamb schedule.
- Textual conflict
- Weak contradiction
- The supplied passages do not establish incompatible claims. Different events, meanings, or conditions may account for the difference.
- Importance
- Supporting
- A supporting event, teaching, or biographical claim.
Exodus explicitly limits the bull ceremony to seven days and then prescribes the same continuing two-lamb schedule as Numbers.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
A seven day altar purification uses bulls alongside daily lambs
And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it. Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy. Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually. The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even:
Exodus 29:36-39
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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The continuing daily burnt offering consists of two lambs
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My offering, and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, for a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season. And thou shalt say unto them, This is the offering made by fire which ye shall offer unto the Lord;