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Numbers 29
The offerings of the seventh month: the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles, with thirteen bulls on the first day, one fewer each day down to seven on the seventh, and a solemn assembly on the eighth.
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- Textually stated
Bulls fall from 13 to 7 over seven days (70 in all), with 2 rams, 14 lambs and 1 goat each day; the eighth day has 1 bull, 1 ram, 7 lambs and 1 goat.
Stated day by day in Numbers 29:12–38.
- Strongly supported
Three tenths of an ephah of flour for each bull, two tenths for each ram and one tenth for each lamb; drink offerings of about ½, ⅓ and ¼ hin of wine.
The flour is stated in Numbers 29:14–15. Numbers 29 says only 'according to their number' for the drink offerings; the wine measures come from the general rule in Numbers 15:5–10.
- Plausible
“That great day of the feast” is the eighth day, the solemn assembly.
Leviticus 23:36 and Numbers 29:35 make the eighth day a holy convocation that closes the feast. If this is the day, Jesus spoke after the water rites had ended: the Mishnah gives the water libation seven days (Sukkah 4:1).