Numbers 28:2
Command the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: Offer ye my oblation and my bread, and burnt sacrifice of most sweet odour, in their due seasons.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Præcipe filiis Israël, et dices ad eos : Oblationem meam et panes, et incensum odoris suavissimi offerte per tempora sua.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Ἔντειλαι τοῖς υἱοῖς Ἰσραὴλ καὶ ἐρεῖς πρὸς αὐτοὺς λέγων Τὰ δῶρά μου δόματά μου καρπώματά μου, εἰς ὀσμὴν εὐωδίας, διατηρήσετε προσφέρειν ἐμοὶ ἐν ταῖς ἑορταῖς μου.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- צַ֚ו אֶת בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וְאָמַרְתָּ֖ אֲלֵהֶ֑ם אֶת קָרְבָּנִ֨י לַחְמִ֜י לְאִשַּׁ֗י רֵ֚יחַ נִֽיחֹחִ֔י תִּשְׁמְר֕וּ לְהַקְרִ֥יב לִ֖י בְּמוֹעֲדֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Seasons. These precepts had often been repeated already: but perhaps they had not been exactly observed in the desert, so that Moses inculcates them once more, as if to remind the people that they will now have no excuse, if they neglect these sacrifices in the promised land. (Calmet)
These frequent repetitions may also remind us, with what attention we ought to worship God. (Du Hamel)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Athanasius Letters of Athanasius with Two Ancient Chronicles of His Life, For 333. Easter-day, Coss. Dalmatius and Zenophilus; Præfect, Paternus; vi Indict.; xvii Kal. Maii, xx Pharmuthi; xv Moon; vii Gods; Æra Dioclet. 49
4. Now our life, my brethren, truly consists in our denying all bodily things, and continuing stedfast in those only of our Saviour. Therefore the present season requires of us, that we should not only utter such words, but should also imitate the deeds of the saints. But we imitate them, when we acknowledge Him who died, and no longer live unto ourselves, but Christ henceforth lives in us; when we render a recompense to the Lord to the utmost of our power, though when we make a return we give nothing of our own, but those things which we have before received from Him, this being especially of His grace, that He should require, as from us, His own gifts. He bears witness to this when He says, ‘My offerings are My own gifts.’ That is, those things which you give Me are yours, as having received them from Me, but they are the gifts of God. …