Discovery BoxNumbers 7:87-88 
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. 7:88 All the animals for the sacrifice for the peace offering were 24 young bulls, 60 rams, 60 male goats, and 60 lambs in their first year. These were the dedication offerings for the altar after it was anointed. 1
Numbers 15:9
Context15:9 then a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of finely ground flour mixed with half a hin of olive oil must be presented 2 with the young bull,
Numbers 24:8
Context24:8 God brought them out of Egypt.
They have, as it were, the strength of a young bull;
they will devour hostile people 3
and will break their bones
and will pierce them through with arrows.
Numbers 28:11
Context28:11 “‘On the first day of each month 4 you must offer as a burnt offering to the Lord two young bulls, one ram, and seven unblemished lambs a year old,
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. 5
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. 6
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 30:16
Context30:16 These are the statutes that the Lord commanded Moses, relating to 7 a man and his wife, and a father and his young daughter who is still living in her father’s house.
1 sn Even though the chapter seems wearisome and repetitious to the modern reader, it is a significant document. A. Rainey shows how it matches the exact ledgers of ancient sanctuaries (see ZPEB 5:202). The recording would have been done by the priestly scribes. Of the many points that can be observed here, it should not be missed that each tribe, regardless of its size or relative importance, was on equal footing before the
2 tn The text changes from direct address here to the third person form of the verb. If the MT is correct, then to make a smooth translation it would need to be made a passive (in view of the fact that no subject is expressed).
3 tn Heb “they will devour nations,” their adversaries.
4 tn Heb “of your months.”
5 tn Heb “unblemished they will be to you.” So also in v. 31.
6 tn Heb “they shall be to you without blemish.”
7 tn Heb “between.”
