What Does Numbers 29:10 Mean?
A tenth for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
A several tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs:THE KEY
The sevenfold offering is a whole made from seven distinct, equal shares, each measured for its own lamb.
THE MEANING
Each lamb has its own tenth measure, and that measure repeats across all seven. The offering stays countable as seven distinct shares within one whole.
THE ROOT
עִשָּׂרוֹן
issaron
GROWS FROM
עשר
ʿ-s-r
ten; a tenth part
The Hebrew names the measure through the root for ten, so this is a counted fraction. The repeated tenth makes the whole offering visible portion by portion, rather than as one unmarked mass.
ALSO GROWS
ʿeser: ten
עֶשֶׂר
This is the root’s basic number, showing the tenth measure belongs to a countable whole.
maʿaser: tithe; a tenth
מַעֲשֵׂר
This related word names a tenth share too, echoing how each lamb receives its own measured portion.
THE PATTERN
A shared whole becomes countable when a measured portion is assigned to each part.
With the one lamb, a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a fourth of a hin of crushed oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine for a poured offering.This is the word which the LORD has commanded, Gather from it, each one according to his eating, an omer for each one, according to the number of your living souls. Take, each one, for those in his tents.On the first day of the week, let each of you lay something by at his own side, storing it up, as his way has gone well for him, so that no gatherings are made when I come.THE THREAD
Now an omer is the tenth of an ephah.Exodus makes the fraction behind the tenth measure explicit. The shared root עשר (ʿ-s-r), meaning ten, shows the lambs’ portions as measured tenths rather than an unspecified amount.
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