CONTINUAL, regular — not a sacrifice-word originally, but an ordinary adverb of unbroken repetition. Numbers 28:3 makes it the name of an institution: the olat tamid, the twice-daily lamb first commanded at Exodus 29:38-42 (already on these pages) and reaffirmed here, unchanged, a whole wilderness generation later. ⭐ The whole chapter is built on the word's own sense: every other occasion — sabbath, new moon, festival — is offered besides the tamid, never instead of it; the continual offering is the one thing this chapter never lets a reader forget is still running underneath everything else. → first discussed at Num 28:3