Num 29.1-40 tells us about the offerings for the festivals of the seventh month on the religious calendar called Tishri. These festivals are called Yom Yeruah (also known as Rosh Ha Shannah), Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) and Sukkot (Tabernacles).
Num 29.1-6 will tell us about the Yom Teruah (Rosh Ha Shannah) offerings. This day is called Yom Teruah or “day of the awakening blast” of the shofar. This alludes to the Natzal (or the catching away, the gathering or the “rapture”) of the believer which will happen on this day. Num 29.7-11 tells us about the Yom Kippur offerings and Num 29.12-38 tells us about the Sukkot offerings. Now, let’s look at a few interesting points and passages in these Sukkot offerings.
First, you will notice that there are bulls offered for seven days, but the number of bulls diminish each day. There will be a total of seventy bulls offered for the seven days. Seventy is the number of the nations based on the number of people who went into Egypt (Exo 1.5; Deut 32.8) and Sukkot is called the “Festival of the Nations” because in the kingdom all nations will come to Jerusalem to worship the Lord on Sukkot (Zech 14.16). The number of bulls diminishing alludes to the fact that in the Messianic Kingdom the influence of the nations will diminish.
In another interesting teaching, in Hebrew there is an extra latter where the Torah speaks about the libations that go along with the Sukkot offerings in Num 29.17, 19 and 32, and these letters spell the word “Mayim” or “water.” The Rabbis used this fact to say that mayim (water) was to be poured out on the altar at Sukkot. This ceremony is called the “Beit Ha Shoevah” or “House of the Water Pouring” ceremony. We have additional information on this ceremony on our website in the teachings concerning Sukkot. In Num 29.35 we learn about a solemn assembly called “Shemini Atzeret” which is the eighth day of Sukkot.
They say that the blood in the Temple was very deep in the Azarah (courtyard) after the offerings for Sukkot. The blood would be washed out of the courts by an elaborate water system that came into the courtyard and washed the blood into what is called the “Amah.” The Amah was a conduit that took the blood and water down hill to the south and it emptied out into a place called Akeldama (Acts 1.19).
These offerings required hundreds of priests and that Altar was a busy place. It had three fires burning on it at all times, requiring a lot of wood every day, and it was very large. You had priests singing, blood being thrown on the Altar, skinning, rinsing and cutting going on, and priests holding other animals, smoke, salting and music being played. Everything was done in reverence and coordination. For a good look into the Temple service and how impressive it looked to an observer, go to what is called the “Letter of Aristeas” on the Internet and read about it. He witnessed the Temple services and he describes the priests as being very strong, and how they could rest when tired. He says they willingly served and how silent it was in the courts (besides the singing). He saw hundreds of priests and remarked about how everyone knew what they were to do. We recommend that you read this letter. The place of slaughter in the Temple was called the “Beit Ha Mit’B’Chaim” or the “House to/from Life.” Interesting name for the place of slaughter in the Temple isn’t it?
v 1…”Now in the seventh month (Tishri), on the first day of the month (a new moon; the only festival that happens on a new moon), you shall also have a holy convocation (kodesh mikrah or a rehearsal); you shall do no laborious work (occupational; a completion). It will be for you a day for blowing trumpets (Yom Teruah or an awakening blast, shout or noise-1 Thes 4.13-18; this is the festival that the Natzal or rapture will occur on; it is also called “the day no man knows” because it occurs on a new moon and we won’t know what day until the new moon is sighted; trumpets were blown for many reasons like the festivals, to muster troops, assemble the people, in battle, coronations and in the future, resurrections; and it is also called “the last trump”-1 Cor 15.51-52).
v 2…And you shall offer a burnt offering as a soothing aroma to the Lord: one bull, one ram, and seven male lambs one year old without defect;
v 3…also their grain offering (the word of God), fine flour mixed with oil (alluding to the perfect humanity of Yeshua, anointed by the Holy Spirit), three-tenths of an ephah for the bull, two-tenths for the ram;
v 4…and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs.
v 5…And offer one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement (restore a covering) for you;
v 6…besides the burnt offering of the new moon (this festival occurs on a new moon), and its grain offering, and the continual burnt offering (Tamid-v 1-8) and its grain offering, and their libations, according to their ordinances, for a soothing aroma, an offering by fire to the Lord.
v 7…Then on the tenth day of this seventh month (Tishri 10 or Yom Kippur; this festival teaches the second coming of Yeshua to Jerusalem; in an idiom, this festival is called the “Great Trump”-Matt 24.29-31) you shall have a holy convocation (kodesh mikrah or rehearsal), and you shall humble yourselves (Hebrew “v’innitem” and the root is anah ” and it means to afflict or mistreat and it is used 79 times in the Tanak and it never mean “fast” or “tzom”; see the notes on Lev 16.29 on this site, and the article called, “Does God Command a Fast on Yom Kippur?” by Leisa Baysinger); you shall not do any work (occupational, a completion).
v 8…And you shall present a burnt offering to the Lord as a soothing aroma (he is pleased with their obedience and faith): one bull (service), one ram (leader of the flock), seven male lambs (complete submission) one year old (youthful strength), having them without defect (no sin found in Yeshua because he was Torah observant);
v 9…and their grain offering (type of the word of God), fine flour (perfect humanity) mixed with oil (anointed with the Holy Spirit), three-tenths of an ephah for the bull, two-tenths for the ram,
v 10…a tenth for each of the seven lambs,
v 11…one male goat for a sin offering, besides the sin offering of atonement and the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and their libations (Lev 16.15).
v 12…Then of the fifteenth day of the seventh month (this festival will be full of “sevens”) you shall have a holy convocation (kodesh mikrah or rehearsal; this festival teaches the Messianic Kingdom where Yeshua will reign as king; this day was probably the day Yeshua was born; see our articles on this website dealing; see our Temple 201 series “The Ceremonies (Birth of Yeshua at Sukkot) Parts 38 through 50 for more detail); you shall do no laborious work (occupational; a completion), and you shall observe a feast (hag) to the Lord for seven days (a completion).
v 13…And you shall present a burnt offering by fire as a soothing aroma to the Lord: thirteen bulls (you will notice that this number will diminish by one to seven bulls in v 32, for a total of 70 bulls, the number of the nations-Exo.1.5; Gen 46.8-27; Deut 32.8; this teaches that the influence of the nations will diminish during the Messianic Kingdom), two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old, which are without defect;
v 14…and their grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three-tenths of an ephah for each of the thirteen bulls, two-tenths for each of the two rams;
v 15…amd a tenth for each of the fourteen lambs;
v 16…and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its grain offering and its libations.
v 17…Then on the second day (second through the sixth day of Sukkot are what is called “Chol ha Moed” or “intermediate days” of the festival; in Hebrew in verse 19, which is associated with this second day, there is an extra Mem; in v 29 there is an extra Yod, and in v 33 there is a closing Mem, which spells the Hebrew word “mayim” or “water”; this alludes to the Messiah as the spring of living water in Isa 12.3, Jer 17.12-13 and John 7.37-39, and these Scriptures that relate to the festival of Sukkot; the rabbis interpreted the letters that spell “mayim” to mean that water was to be poured out on the altar at Sukkot in a ceremony called the Beit Ha Shoevah, or “House of the Water Pouring”-Chabad. org, “The Taste of Water” article): twelve bulls (down by one from v 13), two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old without defect;
v 18…and their grain offering and their libations for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance;
v 19…and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and their libations (there is an extra Hebrew letter Yod in this verse).
v 20…Then on the third day: eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old without defect;
v 21…and their grain offering and their libations for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, their number according to the ordinance,
v 22…and one ale goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering and its grain offering and its libation.
v 23…Then on the fourth day: ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old without defect,
v 24…their grain offering and their libations for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance,
v 25…and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its grain offering and its libation.
v 26…Then on the fifth day: nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old without defect;
v 27…and their grain offering and their libations for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance,
v 28…and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering and its grain offering and its libation.
v 29…Then on the sixth day: eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs without defect;
v 30…and their grain offering and their libations for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance;
v 31…and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the the continual burnt offering, its grain offering and its libations.
v 32…Then on the seventh day seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs without defect,
v 33…and their libations for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance;
v 34…and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering and its libation.
v 35…Then on the eighth day (called Shemini Atzeret or the concluding eighth day; eight is the number of new beginnings and alludes to the Olam Haba; the woman caught in adultery was brought to Yeshua in John 8.1-11, after the events of the previous seventh day of Sukkot where Yeshua says that he is the fountain of living waters, a Sukkot theme found in Isa 12.3, a verse associated with Sukkot, where in Hebrew the word for “salvation” there is “yeshua”) you shall have a solemn assembly; you shall do no laborious work.
v 36…But you shall present a burnt offering, an offering by fire, as a soothing aroma to the Lord; one bull, one ram, seven male lambs one year old without defect;
v 37…their grain offering and their libations for the bull, for the ram and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance;
v 38…and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering and its grain offering and its libation.
v 39…You shall present these to the Lord at your appointed (set) times, besides your votive (vow) offerings and your free will offerings and for your libations and for your peace offerings (which could be offered at any time; the altar was a busy place).’ “
v 40…And Moses spoke to the sons of Israel in accordance with all that the Lord commanded Moses.
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