Monthly Offerings

¹¹ ‘At the beginning of each of your months^(A) present a burnt offering to the Lord: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old – all unblemished –  ¹² with six litres^[a] of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering for each bull, four litres of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering for the ram, ¹³ and two litres^[b] of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering for each lamb. It is a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the Lord. ¹⁴ Their drink offerings are to be two litres^[c] of wine with each bull, 1.3 litres^[d] with the ram, and one litre^[e] with each male lamb. This is the monthly burnt offering for all the months of the year.

⁵ So David told him, ‘Look, tomorrow is the New Moon,^(A) and I’m supposed to sit down and eat with the king.^(B) Instead, let me go, and I’ll hide in the countryside for the next two nights.^[a](C)