What Does Numbers 29:34 Mean in the King James?
And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, 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 response to what is missing stands beside what continues, not in place of it.
THE MEANING
The verse places a distinct offering for the missing beside the continual burnt offering, with grain and drink offerings also named. What is missing has a place within a larger, ongoing order of approach.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the assumption that addressing what is missing displaces what continues: the goat is offered beside the continual burnt offering.
THE ROOT
חַטָּאת
ḥaṭṭāʾt
GROWS FROM
חטא
ḥṭʾ
To miss or go wrong; the missing itself.
“sin offering” in this verse is ḥaṭṭāʾt. The Hebrew חַטָּאת (ḥaṭṭāʾt, “missing” or “offering for the missing”) can name both the offense and the offering brought in response. The response carries the name of what it addresses, keeping the two connected in a way the separate English phrases can obscure.
ALSO GROWS
ḥāṭāʾ: To miss or go wrong.
חָטָא
The verb names the act of missing; it grows from the same root as the offering made for that missing.
ḥēṭʾ: A missing or offense.
חֵטְא
This noun names what has been missed, showing how the same root holds both the break and the offering directed toward it.
THE PATTERN
What is missing receives a concrete, named response within Scripture’s language of offering and approach.
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.But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put any frankincense thereon: for it is a sin offering.But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;THE THREAD
If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin offering.The verb translated “do sin” and the noun “sin offering” both grow from חטא (ḥṭʾ, “to miss”). The shared root ties the missing directly to the offering made in response.
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