What Does Numbers 29:29 Mean in the King James?

And on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:

Numbers 29:29 · KJV

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 lambs are called tamim, whole and sound, so the verse’s final detail carries the language of wholeness.

THE MEANING

You encounter devotion here in exact, material form: eight bulls, two rams, and fourteen yearling lambs for the sixth day. The lambs are described as without blemish, a phrase rooted in the idea of being whole and sound. The verse gives what is brought both a count and a condition.

THE ROOT

תְּמִימִם

tamim

GROWS FROM

תמם

t-m-m

To be complete, whole, or sound.

The word translated “without blemish” is tamim, from tamam: complete, whole, sound. The root’s language of wholeness can describe both an intact offering and integrity, joining outward soundness with a broader sense of being whole.

ALSO GROWS

tamam: To be complete or come to an end.

תָּמַם

This verb is the root seed beneath the lambs’ description as whole and sound.

tam: Whole, blameless, or integral.

תָּם

This related adjective shows the root can describe integrity as well as physical soundness.

tummah: Integrity.

תֻּמָּה

This noun carries the same root idea of wholeness into the language of a person’s integrity.

THE PATTERN

Scripture describes what is brought before God through both its concrete form and its wholeness.

And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein.

Leviticus 22:21 · KJVAs in Numbers, the offering’s prescribed form includes the condition of being whole and sound.

Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.

Deuteronomy 18:13 · KJVThe same Hebrew word family used for a whole offering also describes being whole with God.

But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

1 Peter 1:19 · KJVThe image of the unblemished lamb appears again as a way of describing what is offered.

THE THREAD

Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.

Deuteronomy 18:13 · KJV

The Hebrew word translated “without blemish” belongs to the same tamim word family rendered “perfect” here. One word reaches from an intact offering to a whole relation with God.

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