Exodus 29:38-46

Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old regularly each day.¹ One lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer in the evening; and with the first lamb one-tenth of a measure of choice flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and one-fourth of a hin of wine for a drink-offering.² And the other lamb you shall offer in the evening, and shall offer with it a grain-offering and its drink-offering, as in the morning, for a pleasing odor, an offering by fire to the Lord. It shall be a regular burnt-offering throughout your generations³ at the entrance of the tent of meeting before the Lord, where I will meet you, to speak to you there.⁴ I will meet the Israelites⁵ there, and it shall be sanctified by my glory; I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar; Aaron also and his sons I will consecrate, to serve me as priests. I will dwell among the Israelites, and I will be their God. And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt that I might dwell among them; I am the Lord their God.

1 For something like this, I wonder who is actually providing the sacrifice? Are the lambs raised by the priests for such a thing? Is the giving of lambs rotated around the community? Are there even lambs available all year long?

2 This bit of flour, oil, and wine seems so small compared to the sacrifice of a whole lamb. I wish I understood the significance more.

3 Emphasizes the perpetuity of the sacrifice.

4 Reminds the Israelites that all of this ceremony revolves around the place at which God speaks to them.

5 Reminds them that it is their people specifically that God is meeting.

Take-home: A reminder that the Lord is their God, that He has chosen them a a people to speak to, and that this is the reason behind all of this structure and all of these offerings. All these ceremonies and consecrations are pointless if it were not the Lord they were sacrificing to and the Lord who was consecrating them.