Discovery BoxNumbers 6:11 
Context6:11 Then the priest will offer one for a purification offering 1 and the other 2 as a burnt offering, 3 and make atonement 4 for him, because of his transgression 5 in regard to the corpse. So he must reconsecrate 6 his head on that day.
Numbers 7:87
Context7:87 All the animals for the burnt offering were 12 young bulls, 12 rams, 12 male lambs in their first year, with their grain offering, and 12 male goats for a purification offering.
Numbers 8:12
Context8:12 When 7 the Levites lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, offer 8 the one for a purification offering and the other for a whole burnt offering to the Lord, 9 to make atonement for the Levites.
Numbers 19:17
Context19:17 “‘For a ceremonially unclean person you must take 10 some of the ashes of the heifer 11 burnt for purification from sin and pour 12 fresh running 13 water over them in a vessel.
Numbers 23:3
Context23:3 Balaam said to Balak, “Station yourself 14 by your burnt offering, and I will go off; perhaps the Lord will come to meet me, and whatever he reveals to me 15 I will tell you.” 16 Then he went to a deserted height. 17
Numbers 23:17
Context23:17 When Balaam 18 came to him, he was still standing by his burnt offering, along with the princes of Moab. And Balak said to him, “What has the Lord spoken?”
Numbers 28:3
Context28:3 You will say to them, ‘This is the offering made by fire which you must offer to the Lord: two unblemished lambs one year old each day for a continual 19 burnt offering.
Numbers 28:11
Context28:11 “‘On the first day of each month 20 you must offer as a burnt offering to the Lord two young bulls, one ram, and seven unblemished lambs a year old,
Numbers 28:13
Context28:13 and one-tenth of an ephah of finely ground flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering for each lamb, as a burnt offering for a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the Lord.
Numbers 28:19
Context28:19 “‘But you must offer to the Lord an offering made by fire, a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs one year old; they must all be unblemished. 21
Numbers 29:8
Context29:8 But you must offer a burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord, one young bull, one ram, and seven lambs one year old, all of them without blemish. 22
Numbers 29:11
Context29:11 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 29:13
Context29:13 You must offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the Lord: thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs each one year old, all of them without blemish.
Numbers 29:36
Context29:36 But you must offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, as a pleasing aroma to the Lord, one bull, one ram, seven lambs one year old, all of them without blemish,
Numbers 29:39
Context29:39 “‘These things you must present to the Lord at your appointed times, in addition to your vows and your freewill offerings, as your burnt offerings, your grain offerings, your drink offerings, and your peace offerings.’”
1 tn The traditional translation of חַטָּאת (khatta’t) is “sin offering,” but it is more precise to render it “purification offering” (as with the other names of sacrifices) to show the outcome, not the cause of the offering (see Lev 4). Besides, this offering was made for ritual defilements (for which no confession was required) as well as certain sins (for which a confession of sin was required). This offering restored the person to the ritual state of purity by purifying the area into which he would be going.
2 tn The repetition of “the one…and the one” forms the distributive sense of “the one…and the other.”
3 tn The burnt offering (Lev 1) reflects the essence of atonement: By this sacrifice the worshiper was completely surrendering to God, and God was completely accepting the worshiper.
4 tn The verb וְכִפֶּר (vÿkhipper) is the Piel perfect with vav (ו) consecutive. The meaning of the verb is “to expiate, pacify, atone.” It refers to the complete removal of the barrier of fellowship between the person and God, and the total acceptance of that person into his presence. The idea of “to cover,” often linked to this meaning, is derived from a homonym, and not from this word and its usage.
5 tn The verb “to sin” has a wide range of meanings, beginning with the idea of “missing the way or the goal.” In view of the nature of this case – the prescribed ritual without confession – the idea is more that he failed to keep the vow’s stipulations in this strange circumstance than that he committed intentional sin.
6 tn The verb simply means “to consecrate,” but because it refers to a vow that was interrupted, it must here mean to “reconsecrate.”
7 tn The clause begins with a vav (ו) on the noun “the Levites,” indicating a disjunctive clause. Here it is clearly a subordinate clause prior to the instruction for Moses, and so translated as a circumstantial clause of time.
8 tn The imperative is from the verb “to do; to make,” but in the sentence it clearly means to sacrifice the animals.
9 sn The “purification offering” cleansed the tabernacle from impurity, and the burnt offering atoned by nullifying and removing the effects of sin in the Levites.
10 tn The verb is the perfect tense, third masculine plural, with a vav (ו) consecutive. The verb may be worded as a passive, “ashes must be taken,” but that may be too awkward for this sentence. It may be best to render it with a generic “you” to fit the instruction of the text.
11 tn The word “heifer” is not in the Hebrew text, but it is implied.
12 tn Here too the verb is the perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive; rather than make this passive, it is here left as a direct instruction to follow the preceding one. For the use of the verb נָתַן (natan) in the sense of “pour,” see S. C. Reif, “A Note on a Neglected Connotation of ntn,” VT 20 (1970): 114-16.
13 tn The expression is literally “living water.” Living water is the fresh, flowing spring water that is clear, life-giving, and not the collected pools of stagnant or dirty water.
14 tn The verb הִתְיַצֵּב (hityatsev) means “to take a stand, station oneself.” It is more intentional than simply standing by something. He was to position himself by the sacrifice as Balaam withdrew to seek the oracle.
15 tn Heb “and the word of what he shows me.” The noun is in construct, and so the clause that follows functions as a noun clause in the genitive. The point is that the word will consist of divine revelation.
16 tn The verb is the perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive. This clause is dependent on the clause that precedes it.
17 sn He went up to a bald spot, to a barren height. The statement underscores the general belief that such tops were the closest things to the gods. On such heights people built their shrines and temples.
18 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Balaam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
19 sn The sacrifice was to be kept burning, but each morning the priests would have to clean the grill and put a new offering on the altar. So the idea of a continual burnt offering is more that of a regular offering.
20 tn Heb “of your months.”
21 tn Heb “unblemished they will be to you.” So also in v. 31.
22 tn Heb “they shall be to you without blemish.”
