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On the fifth day nine bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish;
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A Fading Covenant?
One commentator notes the unique pattern of the bullock offerings during this feast: they decrease each day. The nine bullocks on the fifth day are part of this sequence. Some scholars suggest this diminishing sacrifice symbolically points to the Old Covenant Law gradually giving way to its fulfillment in the Gospel.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Feast of Tabernacles: (Compare to Leviticus 23:33 and following). The offerings required at this feast were the largest of all. It was especially o…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
(See Gill on Numbers 29:13).
Soon after the Day of Atonement, the day in which people were to afflict their souls, followed the Feast of Tabernacles, in which they were to rejo…
