What Does Numbers 7:58 Mean in the King James?
One kid of the goats for a sin 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 goat’s offering bears the same Hebrew root as the miss itself: what is missing gets named as part of what is brought.
THE MEANING
The missing has a distinct place among the gifts being named. Its purpose is stated plainly rather than blurred into the surrounding offerings. The verse speaks now of failure as something that can be named and met with a concrete response.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that what is missing cannot be named among what is brought: this verse gives the missing its own offering.
THE ROOT
חַטָּאת
chatta't
GROWS FROM
חטא
chata
To miss, fail to reach.
“sin offering” in this verse is chatta't. The offering’s name belongs to the same root as the act of missing. Hebrew holds the miss and the offering named for it in one word family, giving what is missing a concrete place in the verse.
ALSO GROWS
chata: To miss, to fail.
חָטָא
This verb shares the offering’s root, linking the act of missing to the thing named for that miss.
chet: A missing, a failure.
חֵטְא
This noun carries the same root into the name of the condition the offering addresses.
THE PATTERN
The missing is named as a distinct part of what is brought, rather than dissolved into the surrounding offerings.
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.And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin.But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.THE THREAD
I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.The same root that names the offering here names the speaker’s own missing in this verse. The miss is not hidden; it is brought into open speech, and its crookedness is released.
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