Numbers29:7–11

The tenth-day fast: the fixed coordinate of Atonement verbal / quotation — confirmed

Numbers 29:7 and Leviticus 23:27 share the rare ordinal ʻâsôwr (H6218, "the tenth," in only 16 verses), together with miqrâʼ (H4744, "convocation"), the affliction-verb ʻânâh (H6031), and shᵉbîyʻîy (H7637, "seventh"). Leviticus 23:27 is the parallel ordinance: "the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement... you shall afflict your souls." The rarity of ʻâsôwr plus the matched affliction-command makes this a genuine verbal link, not a mere theme. The Verifier confirms the tier.

Leviticus 23:27

basis: two rare shared lexemes — H6218 ʻâsôwr (only 16 vv) + H4744 miqrâʼ (22 vv) — co-occurring with the affliction-verb H6031 ʻânâh (78 vv) and H7637 shᵉbîyʻîy (94 vv); the low-frequency pair fixing both verses to the same calendar date is what earns the 'verbal' tier; Verifier-computed and confirmed

The restful aroma: one liturgical formula across Numbers 28–29 structural / thematic — confirmed

Numbers 29:8 repeats verbatim the offering-formula of the daily and festal calendar: rêyach (H7381) + nîychôwach (H5207, "restful aroma") + ʻôlâh (H5930, "burnt offering"), echoing Numbers 28:13 and the New Moon offering of Numbers 29:2. The fixed phrase "a pleasing aroma to the LORD... a burnt offering... unblemished" is one stock liturgical unit reused at every appointed time, so Keil & Delitzsch and Gill both note the Atonement burnt offering is "the same" as the seventh-month New Moon's. The Verifier rates the lexical overlap "verbal," but we deliberately under-claim to structural: a phrase legislated to recur at every feast is a stock formula, not a citation of one passage by another.

Numbers 28:13 · Numbers 29:2

basis: Verifier-computed shared lexemes H5207 nîychôwach (43 vv) + H7381 rêyach (55 vv) + H5930 ʻôlâh (261 vv) + H3532 kebes (100 vv); Verifier tier 'verbal' downgraded by editor to structural — recurring liturgical formula reused at every appointed time, not a one-way quotation

The sin-offering goat and its libations structural / thematic — confirmed

Numbers 29:11's added goat ties to the sin-offering pattern repeated throughout the festal calendar (e.g. Numbers 28:15): shared sâʻîyr (H8163, "shaggy goat"), neçek (H5262, "drink offering"), ʻêz (H5795, "goat"), and tâmîyd (H8548, "continual"). The same "one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering" formula recurs at each feast, marking the structural backbone of the calendar.

Numbers 28:15

basis: shared festal sin-offering lexemes H8163 sâʻîyr (57 vv) + H5262 neçek (62 vv) + H5795 ʻêz (74 vv) + H8548 tâmîyd (103 vv) — recurring calendar formula; Verifier-computed

Afflict the soul: the fast that the prophets and the apostles re-read structural / thematic — confirmed

The one human command of the day — wə-ʻinnîṯem ʼeṯ-napšōṯêḵem (H6031 + H5315), "afflict your souls" — becomes a load-bearing idiom across the canon. The Cambridge Bible cross-lists Numbers 30:13, Psalm 35:13, and Isaiah 58:3, 5, where Israel asks why God ignores the fast in which they "afflict the soul," and God answers that the fast He chose is to "loose the chains of injustice." By the first century the Day of Atonement is simply called "the Fast" (Acts 27:9). This is a cross-Testament motif: the Acts reference is Greek and shares no Strong's number with the Hebrew here, so it is tiered structural / thematic on the shared institution, not a verbal link. The Isaiah and Psalm links are Hebrew-to-Hebrew and do share H6031 ʻânâh, but the thread as a whole is held thematic because it traces the idiom's afterlife rather than one verse quoting another.

Isaiah 58:3 · Psalm 35:13 · Acts 27:9

basis: shared idiom 'afflict the soul' (Hebrew side shares H6031 ʻânâh + H5315 nephesh with Isaiah 58 / Psalm 35); the Acts 27:9 tie is cross-Testament (Greek) and rests on the shared institution 'the Fast,' not on a Strong's match — therefore thematic, never verbal

Leviticus 16 and the high priest who enters once a year flagged — verify source

Numbers 29:11 names "the sin offering of atonement" (hak-kippurîm, H3725) — an explicit back-reference to the rite of Leviticus 16. The Verifier finds no shared original-language lexeme between Numbers 29:11 and Leviticus 16:29 in the index, so the connection is intertextual-thematic (named by the day, argued by the commentators: Poole, Cambridge, Keil & Delitzsch all route this verse through Leviticus 16), not a verbal match. We record it as flagged rather than asserting a verbal link the index does not support.

Leviticus 16:29 · Leviticus 16:34

basis: Verifier reports NO shared lexeme with Leviticus 16:29; the link is the day's own name (hak-kippurîm, H3725) and the commentators' cross-reference, an argued thematic tie, not an indexed verbal one

The grain offering mingled with oil structural / thematic — confirmed

Numbers 29:9's minchâh (H4503) of fine flour bâlal (H1101, "mingled") with oil follows the proportional grain-offering rule of Numbers 15 (e.g. 15:6) and Leviticus 23:13, sharing the rare cluster ʻissârôwn (H6241, "tenth-part," only 22 vv), bâlal (H1101, 41 vv), and çôleth (H5560, "fine flour," 52 vv). The Verifier rates this overlap "verbal" on the strength of three low-frequency terms co-occurring; we hold it at structural because the words constitute the standard companion-gift recipe legislated to attend every animal offering, not a quotation of one text by another. The descending measures (3 / 2 / 1 tenths, by bull / ram / lamb) are identical to Numbers 28:12–13.

Numbers 15:6 · Leviticus 23:13

basis: Verifier-computed shared lexemes H6241 ʻissârôwn (22 vv) + H1101 bâlal (41 vv) + H5560 çôleth (52 vv) + H4503 minchâh (194 vv); Verifier tier 'verbal' downgraded by editor to structural — fixed proportional grain-offering recipe recurring across the offering legislation, not a citation

The unblemished victim that ascends ancient/widely-held

The burnt offering must be təmîmim (H8549), "without blemish" (Numbers 29:8), and ascends — ʻôlâh, from a root meaning to "go up" — as a rêaḥ nîḥōaḥ, a "restful aroma." The New Testament reads both terms of Christ: "a lamb without blemish or defect" (1 Peter 1:19) who "gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God" (Ephesians 5:2). The unblemished, ascending, soul-soothing victim is the ancient and widely-held type the apostles claimed by name.

Numbers 29:8 · Ephesians 5:2 · 1 Peter 1:19

The Day of Atonement and the once-for-all High Priest ancient/widely-held

Numbers 29:11 glances at "the sin offering of atonement" — the Leviticus 16 rite where the high priest alone enters the Holy of Holies one day a year. Hebrews makes this the explicit type of Christ: "the high priest enters the Most Holy Place... once a year, and never without blood" (Hebrews 9:7), "but Christ... entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood" (Hebrews 9:12). The Cambridge Bible names the link directly: Leviticus 16 is the chapter "on which Hebrews 9:7-12; 9:23-28 is based." Because this is a cross-Testament (Greek–Hebrew) tie, it rests on the named ritual and the epistle's own argument, not on shared Strong's numbers — figural, but anciently and explicitly attested.

Numbers 29:11 · Hebrews 9:7 · Hebrews 9:12

The sin offering made sin, and borne outside the camp ancient/widely-held

The goat is a ḥaṭṭāṯ (H2403), one word for both "sin" and "sin offering." Paul exploits exactly that fusion: God "made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us" (2 Corinthians 5:21). And the Atonement sin-offering bodies were "burned outside the camp" (Leviticus 16:27), which Hebrews makes the type of Christ who "suffered outside the gate to sanctify the people through His own blood" (Hebrews 13:11–12). The figure — the sin-bearing victim consumed beyond the camp — is anciently read of Christ; we mark it widely-held, while noting honestly that the specific goat of Numbers 29:11 is an added victim, the type proper resting on the Leviticus 16 goats it stands beside.

Numbers 29:11 · 2 Corinthians 5:21 · Hebrews 13:11