Matthew Poole and continuators on Numbers 29:13

13 And ye shall offer a burnt-offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD, thirteen young bullocks , two rams and fourteen lambs of the first year: they shall be without blemish.

More sacrifices than at any other feast, partly because this feast was in the close of the year, when it was meet to supply the defects of the year past, and when they had gathered in all their fruits, Deut. 16. 13, 15. and therefore ought to make the larger returns and acknowledgment to God; partly because it was Gods pleasure so to order it, for reasons known to himself, in whose will we ought to acquiesce. And the same reason holds why these sacrifices grew fewer and fewer every day.

More sacrifices than at any other feast, partly because this feast was in the close of the year, when it was meet to supply the defects of the year past, and when they had gathered in all their fruits, Deut. 16. 13, 15. and therefore ought to make the larger returns and acknowledgment to God; partly because it was Gods pleasure so to order it, for reasons known to himself, in whose will we ought to acquiesce. And the same reason holds why these sacrifices grew fewer and fewer every day.

Marginal references: Ezra 3. [illegible: 1+ letters] ▪