π The Foundational Question
How could Yhwh command daily animal sacrifices in the wildernessβwhen the people had no animals, no fields, no flour, no oil, and no wine?
This isn't a debate about theology. It's about truth.
It's about what the original Hebrew scriptures say β and whether modern religion added laws that never came from Yhwh.
ποΈ The Wilderness Reality According to Hebrew Scripture
The Torah and Prophets describe the wilderness as a place of miraculous provision, not agricultural abundance.
π Deuteronomy 8:4 β "Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years."
π Deuteronomy 29:5 β "I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn out on your feet."
π Exodus 16:35 β "The people of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to a settled land."
π Numbers 20:11 β "And Moses struck the rock, and water came out abundantly."
- No flocks
- No farming
- No vineyards or olive groves
- No flour or wine
- No permanent settlements
The people lived under direct, daily provision from Yhwh β not from sacrifice, trade, or agriculture.
β The Contradiction: Sacrificial Laws That Don't Fit
Some texts claim that during this same wilderness period, Yhwh commanded:
π Exodus 29:38β42
β’ Two unblemished lambs daily β one in the morning, one in the evening
β’ Fine flour mixed with oil
β’ Wine for drink offerings
β’ A perpetual altar fire
π Numbers 28:1β8
Continues this pattern with grain offerings, wine libations, and fire sacrifices β every day.
The Mathematics of Impossibility
π That adds up to 29,200 lambs over 40 years β with no breeding flocks.
π Daily flour and oil β with no fields, presses, or crops.
π Wine β with no vineyards or harvest.
This is not a minor detail. It's a massive contradiction between what the Hebrew scrolls say about life in the wilderness⦠and what later priestly law codes required.
𧱠The Evidence of Later Insertion
This contradiction forces one of two conclusions:
- Either the laws were added later, during the Temple period β when flour, wine, oil, and livestock were availableβ¦
- Or the wilderness account is false β and they actually did have vineyards, flocks, and cities (which the scrolls do not support)
But it can't be both.
You cannot command daily offerings of things that did not exist in the wilderness.
π Jeremiah Spoke the Truth
π Jeremiah 7:22 (from Early Square Script, no vowels)
"For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day I brought them out of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrificesβ¦"
This verse stands as a direct contradiction to Exodus 29 and Numbers 28. And it aligns perfectly with the wilderness reality.
- Yhwh gave manna, not meat.
- He gave water, not wine.
- He asked for obedience, not offerings.
β οΈ The Priestly Redaction Theory
The detailed sacrificial system reflects:
- A later priestly system rooted in Temple worship
- Temple economics β the feeding of priests through sacrifices
- A desire to legitimize power and hierarchy by claiming it came from Sinai
- Human commands, not divine ones
These additions appeared during the Temple period when priestly control was established to legitimize their authority.
π‘ What This Tells Us
"You cannot command what does not exist."
If lambs, flour, wine, and oil were not availableβ¦
Then the laws requiring them were not from Yhwh in the wilderness.
Instead, they were:
- β‘οΈ Projected backward from the Temple era
- β‘οΈ Used to create control
- β‘οΈ Disguised as "holy law" to justify a man-made system
π Missing from the 4 Early Manuscripts
Everything points to Exodus 29:38β42 and Numbers 28:1β8 being later priestly edits, not original Hebrew Torah.
These Sacrifice Laws Are Missing from the 4 Early Bibles:
- Paleo-Hebrew Torah (1400 BC) β No record of daily lamb sacrifices, wine offerings, or perpetual fire.
- Dead Sea Scrolls (4QExod, 4QNum) β These scrolls cut off before those verses, or omit them entirely.
- Early Square Script (Ketav Ashuri β No Vowels) β Lacks these priestly instructions, confirming they were not in the original form.
- Aramaic Scriptures (Daniel, Ezra) β Never reference daily offerings; they focus on obedience and repentance, not blood and ritual.
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If it's missing from all 4 ancient Hebrew sources, it was not from Yhwh at Sinai.
π§Ώ The Language and Structure Match Greek Religious Influence
- π» "Perpetual offering" (ΧͺΦΈΦΌΧΦ΄ΧΧ) appears often in late priestly edits, not in the early Torah.
- π» The combination of wine + flour + lamb + fire resembles Greek ritual triads, not original Hebrew worship.
- π» These laws show up in later priestly edits β when Temple control was being established and legitimized.
β οΈ The hand behind this is not the same Hebrew that wrote Genesis, Exodus 1β24, or the Covenant Law.
π₯ The Real Covenant: No Blood Required
The Hebrew scriptures β in their earliest, vowel-free form β point to a different foundation.
π Micah 6:6β8
"Shall I come before Yhwh with burnt offerings? β¦ He has shown you, O man, what is good: To do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your Elohim."
π Isaiah 1:11β17
"What are your many sacrifices to Me? says Yhwh⦠Bring no more worthless offerings. Wash yourselves. Make yourselves clean. Learn to do good."
𧨠Final Truth:
π Yhwh never asked for daily blood and wine sacrifices in the wilderness.
These laws were written by later priestly scribes to control worship β likely during the Second Temple period under Greek pressure and influence.
- They are absent from the original Torah
- They contradict wilderness reality
- They sound Greek, not Hebrew
- And Yhwh Himself said: "I did not speak to your fathersβ¦ concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices." β Jeremiah 7:22
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The Original Wilderness Covenant
The wilderness covenant β the one Yhwh gave in the original Torah β was about:
- Walking with Him
- Hearing His voice
- Trusting Him daily
- Doing justice, loving mercy
There was no temple, no altar, no blood.
The sacrifice system was added later by Temple priests to create control and legitimize their authority.
π The blood system was added. It was never the beginning.