What Does Numbers 29:26 Mean?

And on the fifth day, nine young bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year, without blemish.

Numbers 29:26 · SDV

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Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.

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And on the fifth day nine bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:

THE KEY

Here, wholeness is not an abstraction: it is named as a condition within an exact count.

THE MEANING

The verse holds measure and condition together: nine bulls, two rams, and fourteen yearling lambs are counted, with the lambs named as whole. You encounter devotion described through particulars rather than as an indistinct gesture.

THE ROOT

תְּמִימִם

temimim

GROWS FROM

תמם

To be complete or whole.

The Hebrew word ⁨תְּמִימִם⁩ (temimim), rendered “without spot,” grows from ⁨תמם⁩, the root of being whole or complete. This root can describe an offering’s condition and a person’s integrity, opening the verse’s detail into a wider language of wholeness.

ALSO GROWS

tamim: Whole, complete, without defect.

תָּמִים

The same form describes Abraham’s way before God in Genesis 17:1, extending the root from an offering’s condition to a person’s life before God.

tom: Integrity, wholeness.

תֹּם

This noun carries the root’s sense of completeness into character; the verse’s “without spot” belongs to the same word family as integrity.

THE PATTERN

An offering is described through both its exact measure and the wholeness of what is presented.

Your lamb will be whole, a male of its first year. You will take it from the sheep or from the goats.

Exodus 12:5 · SDVThe Passover lamb is specified by age and by its unblemished condition.

And whoever brings near a wholeness offering to the LORD to set apart his vow, or a willing offering from the herd or the sheep, it shall be whole to be pleasing; no blemish shall be in it.

Leviticus 22:21 · SDVThe offering is named as perfect and without blemish, echoing the wholeness named here.

but with the costly blood of the Anointed One, as of a lamb without blemish and without stain.

1 Peter 1:19 · SDVThe lamb image carries the unblemished-offering pattern into the description of Christ.

THE THREAD

And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, I am God Almighty; walk before my face, and be whole.

Genesis 17:1 · SDV

Numbers uses the plural form of ⁨תָּמִים⁩ (tamim), “whole,” for the lambs; Genesis uses the same root in “be thou perfect.” The shared root names both an offering’s condition and a person’s way before God.

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