Neville Goddard on Numbers 6:16-17 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Numbers 6 in context

Scripture Focus

16And the priest shall bring them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering:

17And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also his meat offering, and his drink offering.

Numbers 6:16-17

Biblical Context

The passage presents a priestly sequence of offerings—sin, burnt, then a ram with unleavened bread, plus meat and drink offerings—as rites of atonement and communion.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the quiet chapters of Numbers, the inner temple awakens. The priest is your I AM, the conscious ruler who brings all of you before the LORD of your life. The sin offering is the honest admission of thoughts not aligned with your desired state; you name them without judgment and let awareness release them. The burnt offering is devotion—the fire of fidelity to a new image burning away the old self. Then comes the ram for a peace offering, the inner harmony you claim as reality when your heart rests in the present I AM. The basket of unleavened bread stands for pure truth, thoughts untainted by doubt. The meat offering and the drink offering are the steady nourishment of consciousness—the ongoing acts by which you embody the new state. If you mentally enact this sequence, you rewrite your inner atmosphere and invite the outer experience to conform. The temple is your mind; the LORD is the I AM within; reality follows your inward posture of worship.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and, in your imagination, present the issue to the LORD as a sin offering, then consciously burn away the old self with devotion, receive the ram of peace, and feed the new state with pure thought and steady, life-affirming action.