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Lexicon :: Strong's H352 - 'ayil

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אַיִל
Transliteration
'ayil
Pronunciation
ah'-yil
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the same as אוּל (H193)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 45d,e,f,g

Strong’s Definitions

אַיִל ʼayil, ah'-yil; from the same as H193; properly, strength; hence, anything strong; specifically a chief (politically); also a ram (from his strength); a pilaster (as a strong support); an oak or other strong tree:—mighty (man), lintel, oak, post, ram, tree.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 185x

The KJV translates Strong's H352 in the following manner: ram(s) (156x), post(s) (21x), mighty (men) (4x), trees (2x), lintel (1x), oaks (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 185x
The KJV translates Strong's H352 in the following manner: ram(s) (156x), post(s) (21x), mighty (men) (4x), trees (2x), lintel (1x), oaks (1x).

  1. ram

    1. ram as food)

    2. ram as sacrifice)

    3. ram skin dyed red, for tabernacle)

  2. pillar, door post, jambs, pilaster

  3. strong man, leader, chief

  4. mighty tree, terebinth

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אַיִל ʼayil, ah'-yil; from the same as H193; properly, strength; hence, anything strong; specifically a chief (politically); also a ram (from his strength); a pilaster (as a strong support); an oak or other strong tree:—mighty (man), lintel, oak, post, ram, tree.
STRONGS H352: Abbreviations
I. אַ֫יִל 156 noun masculineGenesis 22:13 ram (as leader of flock, Late Hebrew & Aramaic id., Assyrian ailu DlW, Phoenician איל, = אַיִל rather than אַיָּל, compare CISi. p. 231) — (אָ֑יִל) אַיִל Genesis 15:9 +; construct אֵיל Exodus 29:22 +; plural אֵילִים (אֵילִם, אֵלִים) Genesis 32:15 +; construct אֵילֵי Genesis 31:38; Isaiah 60:7. — ram,
1. used as food Genesis 31:38 (E) Deuteronomy 32:14 (compare ram of sacrifice, below e.g. Exodus 29:32 compare Leviticus 8:31); as yielding wool 2 Kings 3:4; as tribute 2 Chronicles 17:11; as merchandise Ezekiel 27:21; as gift Genesis 32:15 (E); in simile of leaping, skipping Psalm 114:4 (הֶהָרִים רָקְדוּ כְּא׳) Psalm 114:6; in Daniel's vision, ram with two horns symbolizing kings of Media and Persia Daniel 8:3, 4, 6, 7 (4 times in verse); Daniel 8:20; figurative of rich and powerful in Israel Ezekiel 34:17.
2. slain in ceremony of ratification of convenant between י׳ & Abraham Genesis 15:9 (J); in Abraham's sacrifice Genesis 22:13 (twice in verse) (E); Balaam's sacrifice Numbers 23:1 + 5 times Numbers 23 (JE); so in ritual (P),
(a) in consecration ceremony of Aaron & his sons Exodus 29:1 + 15 times Exodus 29 (א׳ מִלֻּאִים Exodus 29:22 compare Exodus 29:26; Exodus 29:27; Exodus 29:31) Leviticus 8:2 + 8 times Leviticus 8 (הַמִּלֻּאִים א׳ Leviticus 8:22; Leviticus 8:29 הָעֹלָה א׳ Leviticus 8:18);
(b) in guilt-offering (אָשָׁם) Leviticus 5:15, 16, 18; Leviticus 5:25; Leviticus 19:21, 22 compare Ezra 10:19 & הַכִּפֻּרִים א׳ Numbers 5:8;
(c) burnt-offering (עֹלָה) Leviticus 9:2 & Numbers 15:6, 11 & Ezekiel 46:4, 5, 6, 7, 11, on day of atonement Leviticus 16:3, 5, Pentecost Leviticus 23:18;
(d) peace-offering (שְׁלָמִים) Leviticus 9:4, 18, 19; beginning of month Numbers 28:11, 12, 14; compare Numbers 29:2, 3; passover Numbers 29:19; Numbers 29:20 compare Ezekiel 45:23, 24; day of firstfruits Ezekiel 45:27; Ezekiel 45:28; in 7th month Ezekiel 29:8 + 18 times Numbers 29;
(e) in law of Nazarite Numbers 6:14, 17, 19;
(f) in consecration of altar of tabernacle Numbers 7:15 + 25 times Numbers 7, compare consecration of Ezekiel's temple-altar Ezekiel 43:23, 25;
(g) more generally 1 Samuel 15:22; Isaiah 1:11; Micah 6:7; Job 42:8; Psalm 66:15, also Isaiah 34:6; Isaiah 60:7; at bringing ark to Jerusalem 1 Chronicles 15:26; others occasions 1 Chronicles 29:21; 2 Chronicles 13:9; 29:21, 22, 32; Ezra 8:35; compare figurative Jeremiah 51:40; Ezekiel 39:18.
3. עֹרֹת אֵילִים מְאָדָּמִים rams' skins dyed red, of covering of tabernacle Exodus 25:5; Exodus 26:14; Exodus 35:7, 23; Exodus 36:19; compare Exodus 39:34 (all P).

II. אַ֫יִל noun [masculine] projecting pillar or pilaster — א׳ absolute 1 Kings 6:31 (but see below) construct id. Ezekiel 40:14 (but strike out Co) Ezekiel 40:16 (Co better אֵילָיו); אֵיל Ezekiel 41:3, אֵל Ezekiel 40:48; plural אֵילִים Ezekiel 40:14 +; אֵילִם Ezekiel 40:10; suffix אילו Kt Ezekiel 40:9 + 7 times; אלו Kt Ezekiel 40:29 + 2 times Qr (in all) אֵילָיו, אֵלָיו; אֵלֵיהֵמָֿה Ezekiel 40:16; — pilaster or projection in wall at each side of entrance (compare BöProben, 302; NÄ 927), in Solomon's temple 1 Kings 6:31 (BöNÄ 525 reads אֵילָם), in Ezekiel's temple Ezekiel 40:9, 10 + 14 times Ezekiel 40, 41 + Ezekiel 40:14a Ew Hi Co אילם compare Greek Version of the LXX B; Ezekiel 40:38 read אילם so Sm Co compare Greek Version of the LXX; Ezekiel 40:14b Co strike out א׳.

† III. [אַ֫יִל ?] noun masculine leader, chief (= ram, as leader of flock ? compare Di Exodus 15:15 Ol§142 f LagBN 170 & see Ezekiel 34:17) — construct אֵל Ezekiel 31:11; plural construct אֵילֵי Exodus 15:15; Ezekiel 17:13 + 2 Kings 24:15 Qr (Kt אולי see אוּל); אֵלֵי Ezekiel 32:21 (strike out Co, see Greek Version of the LXX). — leader, chief מוֺאָב א׳ Exodus 15:15; הָאָרֶץ א׳ Ezekiel 17:13; 2 Kings 24:15 Qr; גּוֺיִם א׳ Ezekiel 31:11 (אֵלִים Job 41:17 see below אלה; perhaps אֵלֵיהֶם Ezekiel 31:14 but compare below IV. איל & also אֶל Note 1).

† IV. [אַ֫יִל ?] noun masculine terebinth (probably as prominent, lofty tree, see Di Genesis 12:6; Genesis 14:6) — construct אֵיל only proper name פָּארָן אֵיל see below; plural אֵילִים Isaiah 1:29; אֵלִים Isaiah 57:5 construct אֵילֵי Isaiah 61:3; suffix אֵלֵיהֶם Ezekiel 31:14 (> strike out Co. see Vulgate [Arabic Versions]). — terebinth (compare אֵלָה); as marking idol-shrines Isaiah 1:29; Isaiah 57:5 (so Che Di etc. > gods); figurative of ransomed ones of Zion אֵילֵי הַצֶּדֶק; perhaps of haughty ones Ezekiel 31:14.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

12:6; 14:6; 15:9; 15:9; 22:13; 22:13; 31:38; 31:38; 32:15; 32:15

Exodus

15:15; 15:15; 15:15; 25:5; 26:14; 29; 29:1; 29:22; 29:22; 29:26; 29:27; 29:31; 29:32; 35:7; 35:23; 36:19; 39:34

Leviticus

5:15; 5:16; 5:18; 8; 8:2; 8:18; 8:22; 8:29; 8:31; 9:2; 9:4; 9:18; 9:19; 16:3; 16:5; 19:21; 19:22; 23:18

Numbers

5:8; 6:14; 6:17; 6:19; 7; 7:15; 15:6; 15:11; 23; 23:1; 28:11; 28:12; 28:14; 29; 29:2; 29:3; 29:19; 29:20

Deuteronomy

32:14

1 Samuel

15:22

1 Kings

6:31; 6:31

2 Kings

3:4; 24:15; 24:15

1 Chronicles

15:26; 29:21

2 Chronicles

13:9; 17:11; 29:21; 29:22; 29:32

Ezra

8:35; 10:19

Job

41:17; 42:8

Psalms

66:15; 114:4; 114:6

Isaiah

1:11; 1:29; 1:29; 34:6; 57:5; 57:5; 60:7; 60:7; 61:3

Jeremiah

51:40

Ezekiel

17:13; 17:13; 27:21; 29:8; 31:11; 31:11; 31:14; 31:14; 31:14; 32:21; 34:17; 34:17; 39:18; 40; 40:9; 40:9; 40:10; 40:10; 40:14; 40:14; 40:14; 40:14; 40:16; 40:16; 40:29; 40:38; 40:41; 40:48; 41:3; 43:23; 43:25; 45:23; 45:24; 46:4; 46:5; 46:6; 46:7; 46:11

Daniel

8:3; 8:4; 8:6; 8:7; 8:20

Micah

6:7

H352

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Strong's Number H352 matches the Hebrew אַיִל ('ayil),
which occurs 196 times in 171 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 4 (Gen 15:9–Num 7:21)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:9 - He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:13 - And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:38 - These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams of your flocks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:14 - two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:15 - Now are the chiefs of Edom dismayed;
trembling seizes the leaders of Moab;
all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:5 - tanned rams’ skins, goatskins,[fn] acacia wood,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:14 - And you shall make for the tent a covering of tanned rams’ skins[fn] and a covering of goatskins on top.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:1 - “Now this is what you shall do to them to consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests. Take one bull of the herd and two rams without blemish,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:3 - You shall put them in one basket and bring them in the basket, and bring the bull and the two rams.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:15 - “Then you shall take one of the rams, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:16 - and you shall kill the ram and shall take its blood and throw it against the sides of the altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:17 - Then you shall cut the ram into pieces, and wash its entrails and its legs, and put them with its pieces and its head,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:18 - and burn the whole ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the LORD. It is a pleasing aroma, a food offering[fn] to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:19 - “You shall take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:20 - and you shall kill the ram and take part of its blood and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron and on the tips of the right ears of his sons, and on the thumbs of their right hands and on the great toes of their right feet, and throw the rest of the blood against the sides of the altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:22 - “You shall also take the fat from the ram and the fat tail and the fat that covers the entrails, and the long lobe of the liver and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram of ordination),

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:26 - “You shall take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s ordination and wave it for a wave offering before the LORD, and it shall be your portion.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:27 - And you shall consecrate the breast of the wave offering that is waved and the thigh of the priests’ portion that is contributed from the ram of ordination, from what was Aaron’s and his sons’.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:31 - “You shall take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in a holy place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:32 - And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the bread that is in the basket in the entrance of the tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:7 - tanned rams’ skins, and goatskins;[fn] acacia wood,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:23 - And every one who possessed blue or purple or scarlet yarns or fine linen or goats’ hair or tanned rams’ skins or goatskins brought them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:19 - And he made for the tent a covering of tanned rams’ skins and goatskins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 39:34

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:34 - the covering of tanned rams’ skins and goatskins, and the veil of the screen;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:15 - “If anyone commits a breach of faith and sins unintentionally in any of the holy things of the LORD, he shall bring to the LORD as his compensation, a ram without blemish out of the flock, valued[fn] in silver shekels,[fn] according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for a guilt offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:16 - He shall also make restitution for what he has done amiss in the holy thing and shall add a fifth to it and give it to the priest. And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and he shall be forgiven.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 5:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:18 - He shall bring to the priest a ram without blemish out of the flock, or its equivalent, for a guilt offering, and the priest shall make atonement for him for the mistake that he made unintentionally, and he shall be forgiven.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:6 - And he shall bring to the priest as his compensation to the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flock, or its equivalent, for a guilt offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:2 - “Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments and the anointing oil and the bull of the sin offering and the two rams and the basket of unleavened bread.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 8:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:18 - Then he presented the ram of the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 8:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:20 - He cut the ram into pieces, and Moses burned the head and the pieces and the fat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:21 - He washed the entrails and the legs with water, and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering with a pleasing aroma, a food offering for the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 8:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:22 - Then he presented the other ram, the ram of ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 8:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:29 - And Moses took the breast and waved it for a wave offering before the LORD. It was Moses’ portion of the ram of ordination, as the LORD commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:2 - and he said to Aaron, “Take for yourself a bull calf for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish, and offer them before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:4 - and an ox and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the LORD, and a grain offering mixed with oil, for today the LORD will appear to you.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:18 - Then he killed the ox and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings for the people. And Aaron’s sons handed him the blood, and he threw it against the sides of the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:19 - But the fat pieces of the ox and of the ram, the fat tail and that which covers the entrails and the kidneys and the long lobe of the liver—

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:3 - But in this way Aaron shall come into the Holy Place: with a bull from the herd for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:5 - And he shall take from the congregation of the people of Israel two male goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:21 - but he shall bring his compensation to the LORD, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, a ram for a guilt offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:22 - And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before the LORD for his sin that he has committed, and he shall be forgiven for the sin that he has committed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:18 - And you shall present with the bread seven lambs a year old without blemish, and one bull from the herd and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to the LORD, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:8 - But if the man has no next of kin to whom restitution may be made for the wrong, the restitution for wrong shall go to the LORD for the priest, in addition to the ram of atonement with which atonement is made for him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:14 - and he shall bring his gift to the LORD, one male lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish as a sin offering, and one ram without blemish as a peace offering,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:17 - and he shall offer the ram as a sacrifice of peace offering to the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall offer also its grain offering and its drink offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:19 - And the priest shall take the shoulder of the ram, when it is boiled, and one unleavened loaf out of the basket and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the Nazirite, after he has shaved the hair of his consecration,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:15 - one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:17 - and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:21 - one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

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