What Does Numbers 28:15 Mean in the King James?

And one kid of the goats for a sin offering unto the LORD shall be offered, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.

Numbers 28:15 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

The offering for the missing stands beside the continual offering, holding a particular failure within a rhythm that continues.

THE MEANING

Your missing has a named place before the LORD, beside the continual burnt offering and its drink offering. A particular failure stands within a rhythm that continues; it does not fill the whole field of offering.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the belief that one failure cancels every continuing provision: the verse places them side by side.

THE ROOT

חַטָּאת

ḥaṭṭāʾt

GROWS FROM

חטא

ḥ-ṭ-ʾ

The root ḥāṭāʾ (⁨חָטָא⁩) means to miss, err, or fall short; ⁨חַטָּאת⁩ can name both the missing and an offering for it.

“sin offering” in this verse is ḥaṭṭāʾt. The Hebrew term holds the failure and the offering for that failure under one word-family. The verse gives what is missing a distinct place within the continual offering, rather than letting it stand unnamed.

ALSO GROWS

ḥāṭāʾ: To miss, err, or fall short.

חָטָא

This verb is the seed behind the offering’s name: the offering addresses what has gone missing or astray.

ḥēṭʾ: Missing, error, or sin.

חֵטְא

This noun shares the seed with ⁨חַטָּאת⁩, keeping the offering connected to the specific missing it addresses.

נֶסֶךְ

nesekh

GROWS FROM

נסך

n-s-k

The root nāsaḵ (⁨נָסַךְ⁩) means to pour out or cast.

The drink offering is named through the act of pouring. The same root can describe metal poured into a mold, so the word draws attention to the substance being poured into a form.

ALSO GROWS

nāsaḵ: To pour out or cast.

נָסַךְ

This verb names the action behind the drink offering: something is poured out as part of the offering.

massēḵāh: A cast or molten image.

מַסֵּכָה

This related word uses the same root for metal poured into a mold, revealing the root’s focus on pouring and forming.

THE PATTERN

A distinct offering for what is missing appears within a repeated rhythm of offering.

Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned.

Leviticus 4:28 · KJVA goat is brought as a distinct offering for the particular sin that has come to light.

Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually.

Exodus 29:38 · KJVThe daily offering establishes the recurring rhythm beside which this verse places the offering for the missing.

And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:

Hebrews 10:11 · KJVThe verse names the repeated rhythm of offerings and also its limit, setting repetition against what can fully take away sins.

THE THREAD

A Psalm of David, Maschil. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

Psalm 32:1 · KJV

The Hebrew word translated “sin” here is ⁨חֲטָאָה⁩ (ḥaṭāʾāh, chatta’ah), from the same ⁨חטא⁩ root as the offering in Numbers. Numbers names an offering for the missing; this psalm pictures that same missing as covered.

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