These things ye shall do unto the LORD in your set feasts, beside your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meat offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.
These things ye shall do unto the Lord in your set feasts. From the statements made in this and the preceding chapter-which, it should be borne in mind, relate to the period immediately previous to the entrance into Canaan, though for a period of nearly 20 years after there is a blank in the religious history of Israel-it appears that the yearly offerings made to the altar at the public expense, without taking into account a vast number of voluntary vows and trespass offerings, were calculated at the following amount: Goats, 15; kids, 21; rams, 72; bullocks, 132; lambs, 1,101; sum total of animals sacrificed at public cost, 1,241. This, of course, is exclusive of the prodigious addition of lambs slain at the Passover, which in later times, according to Josephus, amounted in a single year to the immense number of 255,600.