What Does Numbers 7:28 Mean?
One kid of the goats, as an offering for falling short.
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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.
King James wording
King James Version
One kid of the goats for a sin offering:THE KEY
The word for “sin offering” also names the missing itself, so the verse makes the answer carry the name of what it addresses.
THE MEANING
The verse names one kid of the goats as an offering for the missing. In Hebrew, the word translated “sin offering” also names the missing itself, holding what is addressed and its offering together in one word. Here that offering has a concrete form.
THE ROOT
חַטָּאת
ḥaṭṭāʾt
GROWS FROM
חטא
To miss; to miss the mark.
“as an offering for falling short” in this verse is ḥaṭṭāʾt. The same Hebrew noun can name both the missing and the offering brought for it. The word keeps them joined, and this verse gives the offering a concrete form: one kid of the goats.
ALSO GROWS
ḥāṭāʾ: To miss; to sin.
חָטָא
The offering’s name grows from the same root as the verb for missing.
ḥēṭʾ: Missing; sin.
חֵטְא
This noun keeps the root’s sense of missing visible within the word translated “sin.”
THE PATTERN
The missing is named and met with an answer that addresses it.
And if he brings his drawing near, a lamb, for the offering for falling short, he brings a female without blemish.I make my falling short known to you, and my crookedness I do not cover. I say, I will speak my rebellion into the open before the LORD, and you release the crookedness of my falling short. Selah.But this one, after bringing near one slain offering for shortcomings, sat down without break at the right hand of God.THE THREAD
I make my falling short known to you, and my crookedness I do not cover. I say, I will speak my rebellion into the open before the LORD, and you release the crookedness of my falling short. Selah.The Hebrew word translated “sin” in Psalm 32:5 grows from the same חטא (ḥ-ṭ-ʾ, to miss) root as the offering named here. Numbers gives the missing a named offering; Psalm shows that same missing brought into the open and released.
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