Numbers 7:1 - Forerunner Commentary

Numbers 7:1

Offerings of the Leaders

1 Now it came to pass, when Moses had finished ^asetting up the tabernacle, that he ^banointed it and consecrated it and all its furnishings, and the altar and all its utensils; so he anointed them and consecrated them.

2 Then ^athe leaders of Israel, the heads of their fathers’ houses, who were the leaders of the tribes¹ and over those who were numbered, made an offering.

3 And they brought their offering before the Lord, six covered carts and twelve oxen, a cart for every two of the leaders, and for each one an ox; and they presented them before the tabernacle.

4 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

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Numbers 7:1-2

Beginning in verse 3 begins a description of the offerings that were brought. The way that it was done was that each day one of the princes of Israel brought forth the offering from that particular family (that tribe). There were twelve of them. So that took twelve days for that to be done, and now where are we? On the twelfth day of the first month of the second year, the tabernacle was finally fully operational. We are now only two days from the second Passover they ever celebrated.

Excerpted from Passover (Part 6)

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