Midday passed, and they continued their frantic prophesying until the time for the evening sacrifice. But there was no response, no-one answered, no-one paid attention.
Numbers 28:4 - New International Version (Anglicised) Offer one lamb in the morning and the other at twilight, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and the other lamb shalt thou offer at even; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition One lamb you shall offer in the morning and the other in the evening, American Standard Version (1901) The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and the other lamb shalt thou offer at even; Common English Bible One lamb you will offer in the morning and the second at twilight, Catholic Public Domain Version You shall offer one in morning, and the other in the evening, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version One you shall offer in the morning, and the other in the evening. |
Midday passed, and they continued their frantic prophesying until the time for the evening sacrifice. But there was no response, no-one answered, no-one paid attention.
At the time of sacrifice, the prophet Elijah stepped forward and prayed: ‘Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command.
to present burnt offerings to the Lord on the altar of burnt offering regularly, morning and evening, in accordance with everything written in the Law of the Lord, which he had given Israel.
May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.
Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight.
while I was still in prayer, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice.
Put on sackcloth, you priests, and mourn; wail, you who minister before the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who minister before my God; for the grain offerings and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.
Say to them: “This is the food offering you are to present to the Lord: two lambs a year old without defect, as a regular burnt offering each day.
together with a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of oil from pressed olives.
Celebrate it at the appointed time, at twilight on the fourteenth day of this month, in accordance with all its rules and regulations.’