What Does Numbers 29:28 Mean in the King James?
And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The offering for the miss stands beside the continual offering; it has a place within the ongoing pattern, not in place of it.
THE MEANING
The miss has a distinct place here, beside the continual burnt offering and its grain and drink offerings. The verse holds a response to failure within an ongoing rhythm of giving.
THE ROOT
חַטָּאת
ḥaṭṭāʾt
GROWS FROM
חטא
To miss, fail, or miss the mark.
The Hebrew word חַטָּאת (ḥaṭṭāʾt), rendered “sin offering,” grows from חטא (ḥṭʾ), the root of missing. The shared seed connects the offering to the miss itself: the verse gives the miss a distinct place beside the continual offering.
ALSO GROWS
chata: To miss, do wrong, or sin.
חָטָא
The verb names the act the offering addresses, joining the offering to the actual miss.
chet: A miss, fault, or offense.
חֵטְא
This noun carries the same root into the thing missed, showing that the offering and the failure share one seed.
THE PATTERN
A distinct response to a miss is held within a wider, ongoing pattern of offering.
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.The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.THE THREAD
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.The word translated “sinned” is חָטָאתִי (ḥāṭāʾtî), from the same root חטא as חַטָּאת (ḥaṭṭāʾt), “sin offering,” in this verse. The shared root links the named miss to the offering set beside the continual one.
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