Numbers 28:31Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

Douay-RheimsHebrew (Masoretic text)

You shall offer them all without blemish with their libations.
Douay-Rheims

מִלְּבַ֞ד עֹלַ֧ת הַתָּמִ֛יד וּמִנְחָת֖וֹ תַּעֲשׂ֑וּ תְּמִימִ֥ם יִהְיוּ־לָכֶ֖ם וְנִסְכֵּיהֶֽם׃
Hebrew (Masoretic text)

The Church Fathers on this verse

One Church Father comments on this verse

Cyrill of Alexandria

5th centuryChurch Father

Two bulls, one ram, and seven lambs, along with flour mixed with oil and a he-goat, are to be presented as burnt offerings and sacrifices. The significance of this enigmatic commandment of the law has been discussed recently (Num. 28:19-22), so we shall not reiterate it.

Cross references

Passages read together with this verse.

Num 28:19And you shall offer a burnt sacrifice a holocaust to the Lord, two calves of the herd, one ram, seven lambs of a year old, without blemish:
Num 28:3These are the sacrifices which you shall offer: Two lambs of a year old without blemish every day for the perpetual holocaust:
Mal 1:13And you have said: Behold of our labour, and you puffed it away, saith the Lord of hosts, and you brought in of rapine the lame, and the sick, and brought in an offering: shall I accept it at your hands, saith the Lord?
Mal 1:14Cursed is the deceitful man that hath in his flock a male, and making a vow offereth in sacrifice that which is feeble to the Lord: for I am a great King, saith the Lord of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the Gentiles.