Numbers 28:22

28:22 as well as one goat for a purification offering, to make atonement for you.

Numbers 29:5

29:5 with one male goat for a purification offering to make an atonement for you;

Numbers 19:21

19:21 “‘So this will be a perpetual ordinance for them: The one who sprinkles the water of purification must wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water of purification will be unclean until evening.

Numbers 29:11

29:11 along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the purification offering for atonement and the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and their drink offerings.

Numbers 6:16

6:16 “‘Then the priest must present all these before the Lord and offer his purification offering and his burnt offering.

Numbers 15:27

15:27 “‘If any person sins unintentionally, then he must bring a yearling female goat for a purification offering.


tn The form has the conjunction with it: וּמַזֵּה (umazzeh). The conjunction subordinates the following as the special law. It could literally be translated “and this shall be…that the one who sprinkles.”

sn This gives the indication of the weight of the matter, for “until the evening” is the shortest period of ritual uncleanness in the Law. The problem of contamination had to be taken seriously, but this was a relatively simple matter to deal with – if one were willing to obey the Law.

tn “all these” is supplied as the object.

tn Heb “make.”

tn The Hebrew text hasוְאִם־נֶפֶשׁ אַחַת (vÿim-nefeshakhat), sometime translated “and if any soul.” But the word describes the whole person, the soul in the body; it refers here to the individual who sins.