Regular Offerings

(Book of Numbers 28:1 - 28:15)
Jehovah told Moses to give these instructions to the Israelites: "Take care to make burnt offerings at the proper times, for they create an aroma that is pleasing to me.  Tell them that every day they should make a regular burnt offering; two male yearling lambs without defect should be sacrificed to Jehovah.  One lamb should be sacrificed in the morning, the other at sundown, along with a grain offering of one-tenth of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of oil from pressed olives.  This is the daily sacrifice made customary at the mountain in Sinai, a burnt offering of food to create an aroma pleasing to Jehovah.  Its accompanying drink offering, a quarter of a hin for each sacrificed lamb, should be strong wine poured out in the Sanctum as an offering to Jehovah.  The other lamb should be sacrificed at sundown with the same grain and drink offering as the one sacrificed in the morning; it should be a burnt offering creating an aroma pleasing to Jehovah.

"On the Sabbath the sacrifice should be two male yearling lambs offered with two-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with olive oil, along with the drink offering.  This is the burnt offering that must be made on the Sabbath in addition to the regular burnt and drink offerings.

"On the first day of each month present a burnt offering to Jehovah of two young bulls, one ram, and 7 male yearling lambs, all without defect, with three-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with oil as a grain offering for each bull, two-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with oil as a grain offering for the ram,  one-tenth of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with oil as a grain offering for each lamb; these will be burnt offerings that will create an aroma pleasing to Jehovah.  The drink offerings will be a half a hin of wine for each bull, one-third of a hin for the ram, and a quarter of a hin for each of the lambs.  This is the burnt offering that should be made on the first of every month.  But, in addition to the regular burnt offering and drink offerings, one male goat should be sacrificed to Jehovah as a sin offering.

Notes
1. An ephah is a unit of dry measure equal to about 19 U.S. dry quarts or 69 cups (as those used in cooking).  Therefore one-tenth of an ephah is about 7 cups, two-tenths is a little less than 14 cups, three-tenths, 21 cups.  Many different values are given for the ephah, but this seems the most likely.

2. A hin, a liquid measure, is about nine-tenths of a gallon, therefore, a quarter of a hin is about nine-tenths of a quart, a third of a hin is 1 1/4 quarts, and a half a hin, 1 and eight-tenths of a quart.

3. One assumes that the sacrificed animals would furnish meat for the priestly class.  There would be plenty of mouths to feed since just the male Levites supposedly numbered 23,000.