Tishrei 17 – Sukkot, Day 3 – The Offerings

Tishrei 17, 5785; from sunset October 18, 2024, to sunset October 19, 2024

(The seventeenth day of the seventh month)

Today in the Bible, we want to remember the animals that were sacrificed to the LORD. Though it may be hard for us to understand in our day, they were an integral part of God’s self-prescribed worship system. Their lives were dedicated to the LORD.

Bring Your Offerings

In the 29th chapter of Numbers, God reveals a listing of sacrifices for observing His Holy Days. Below are the requirements for the third day of Sukkot. Each day throughout the festival, we’ll remember the animals and the grain and drink offerings presented unto the LORD.

On the third day present eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs in their first year without blemish, and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their number, according to the ordinance; also one goat as a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering. – Numbers 29:20-22 (NKJ)

In our previous article, we recognized King Hezekiah for his contributions to the LORD’s offerings. In our next post, we’ll carry on the theme to the prophecies of Ezekiel.