Twelve men brought God the same gift on twelve separate days, and He had every one of them written down in full. This Numbers 7 summary and study guide takes the longest chapter in the first five books of the Bible in order, and ends where the chapter ends, on a voice from over the mercy seat.
Table of Contents
- Setting the Stage
- Comprehensive Numbers 7 Summary
- Numbers 7 Outline
- The Twelve Days of Dedication Offerings
- Observations from Numbers 7
- Difficult Verses Explained
- Common Misunderstandings
- Christ Connection
- When, Where, and Why
- Key Verses
- Key Lessons from Numbers 7
- Bible Study Questions
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Numbers 7, The Full Text (KJV)
Setting the Stage
At Sinai God asked Israel for a tent: “let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them” (Exodus 25:8). He wanted a home among His own people.
He also said where He would be found. Inside stood a gold chest holding the stone tablets God had written, and over it a gold lid with two carved angels. God called that lid the mercy seat: “there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat” (Exodus 25:22). He was promising to talk with Moses there.
Israel built the tent and God’s glory filled it (Exodus 40:34-35). The chapters since have counted Israel and set it in rings around that tent. What Scripture had not yet described was God keeping that promise in the exact terms He gave it, speaking from above the lid itself.
Comprehensive Numbers 7 Summary
Moses finished setting up the tabernacle, then anointed it and set it apart along with the altar and all its equipment. The twelve men who had led the census came to him with a gift nobody had asked them for: six covered wagons and twelve oxen, one wagon between every two of them and one ox each. God told Moses to take the gift and put it straight to work.
The wagons went to the Levite families who had to move the tent, sized to what each family carried. Gershon received two wagons and four oxen for the curtains and coverings. Merari received four wagons and eight oxen for the frames, bars, pillars and sockets. Kohath received none, because the holiest furniture travelled on men’s shoulders.
The same men then brought offerings to dedicate the altar, and God set the pace: one leader a day, for twelve days. Nahshon of Judah went first, in the order the tribes camped and marched. Every day after him brought the same silver and gold vessels holding flour, oil and incense, then animals for a burnt offering, a goat for sin, and a much larger peace offering to feast on. Twelve days, twelve names, one gift.
Then comes the total: the silver, the gold, and the animals, category by category. And when the last gift has been given, Moses walks into the tent and hears a voice speaking to him from over the mercy seat, between the two carved angels.
One Word Summary
- Dedication: the chapter’s own word for what the gifts were (7:10, 7:84)
- Equality: twelve tribes of very different sizes, one identical gift
- Record: every name and every vessel written out, then added up
- Order: God set the day, the sequence, and who carried what
In One Sentence
Israel’s twelve tribal princes gave Moses wagons and oxen for God’s tent and then brought twelve identical offerings over twelve days to dedicate the altar, and when the last gift was in Moses went inside and heard God speak from over the mercy seat, which is where the chapter puts its weight.
Theme of Numbers 7
Numbers 7 is about a God who takes what His people freely bring, receives them all on the same terms, and refuses to summarise any of them. Judah’s fighting men numbered 74,600 and Manasseh’s 32,200 (Numbers 1:27, 35), and at the altar the two brought the same silver, the same gold, and the same animals.
Two ideas run alongside that one. God fits His provision to the job He assigns, giving most where the burden is heaviest and none where it must stay on a man’s shoulder. And the giving is not the end of it, since eighty-eight verses of gifts close on one verse of God’s voice.
Numbers 7 Outline
- Numbers 7:1: Moses finishes setting up the tabernacle and anoints the tent, the altar, and all their equipment.
- Numbers 7:2-3: The twelve tribal princes bring six covered wagons and twelve oxen before the tabernacle.
- Numbers 7:4-5: God tells Moses to accept the gift and give it to the Levites according to each man’s work.
- Numbers 7:6-9: Moses gives two wagons to Gershon and four to Merari, and none to Kohath, who carry the holy things on their shoulders.
- Numbers 7:10-11: The princes bring offerings to dedicate the altar, and God appoints one prince to each day.
- Numbers 7:12-17: Day one, Nahshon of Judah brings the offering the other eleven will match exactly.
- Numbers 7:18-29: Days two and three, Nethaneel of Issachar and Eliab of Zebulun complete the east side of the camp.
- Numbers 7:30-47: Days four to six, Elizur of Reuben, Shelumiel of Simeon and Eliasaph of Gad bring the south side.
- Numbers 7:48-65: Days seven to nine, Elishama of Ephraim, Gamaliel of Manasseh and Abidan of Benjamin bring the west side.
- Numbers 7:66-83: Days ten to twelve, Ahiezer of Dan, Pagiel of Asher and Ahira of Naphtali bring the north side.
- Numbers 7:84-88: The silver, the gold and the animals are added up into one dedication total.
- Numbers 7:89: Moses goes into the tent and hears a voice speaking from off the mercy seat.
The Twelve Days of Dedication Offerings
The princes approached by camp position, the east side first and the north side last (Numbers 2), and not by the birth order of Jacob’s twelve sons.
| Day | Prince | Tribe | Side of the camp |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nahshon son of Amminadab | Judah | East |
| 2 | Nethaneel son of Zuar | Issachar | East |
| 3 | Eliab son of Helon | Zebulun | East |
| 4 | Elizur son of Shedeur | Reuben | South |
| 5 | Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai | Simeon | South |
| 6 | Eliasaph son of Deuel | Gad | South |
| 7 | Elishama son of Ammihud | Ephraim | West |
| 8 | Gamaliel son of Pedahzur | Manasseh | West |
| 9 | Abidan son of Gideoni | Benjamin | West |
| 10 | Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai | Dan | North |
| 11 | Pagiel son of Ocran | Asher | North |
| 12 | Ahira son of Enan | Naphtali | North |
Every prince brought the same five things on his own day:
- A silver dish weighing 130 shekels and a silver bowl weighing 70, both full of fine flour mixed with oil, for the grain offering
- A gold spoon weighing 10 shekels, full of incense
- A bull, a ram and a year-old lamb for the burnt offering
- One male goat for the sin offering
- Two oxen, five rams, five male goats and five year-old lambs for the peace offerings
Added together that came to 2,400 shekels of silver, 120 shekels of gold, forty-eight animals for the burnt and sin offerings, and 204 animals for the peace offerings (7:84-88). By modern weight the silver runs to about sixty pounds and the gold to about three.
Observations from Numbers 7
The One Prince the Chapter Never Calls a Prince (7:2, 7:12, 7:18)
Eleven of the twelve day headings give the man his title: “prince of Issachar” (7:18), “prince of the children of Zebulun” (7:24), and so on through verse 78. Day one is the exception. It says only, “he that offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah” (7:12).
Nahshon carried the first gift to the altar, and he came from Judah, the tribe that led the march. The one man who went first is the one man left untitled, which sits well in a chapter where no tribe is allowed to rise above the others at the altar.
Twelve Entries, One Gift, Almost One Set of Words (7:13-83)
Set the twelve entries side by side and the items are identical every time: the same silver charger of a hundred and thirty shekels, the same bowl of seventy, the same gold spoon, the same animals in the same numbers. The wording shifts, and only in the smallest ways. Nahshon’s entry opens “And his offering was” (7:13) and Nethaneel’s opens “He offered for his offering” (7:19), which is a change of grammar and not a change of gift.
Eight entries word the silver as “the weight whereof”, three as “of the weight of”, and the first as “the weight thereof”. God could have written one entry and a note saying the other eleven matched.
He kept all twelve, so alike that the largest difference between any two of them is a turn of phrase. A reader who finds those twelve entries heavy going is meeting the chapter as God ordered it, one man and one day at a time (7:11).
One Goat a Day, and Never Two (7:16, 7:87-88)
Each prince brought three animals for the burnt offering and seventeen for the peace offerings, and for the sin offering, “one kid of the goats” (7:16). Every day, one. The totals keep it that way: twelve goats for sin against sixty rams and sixty lambs for peace (7:87-88). The part of the gift meant for feasting was the largest of all. The part that dealt with guilt never needed a second animal.
The Trespass Offering Is the One That Never Appears (7:13-17)
Leviticus gave Israel five offerings. Four of them are in every prince’s gift: grain, burnt, sin and peace. The trespass offering, the one required when a person had wronged God or a neighbour and owed restitution (Leviticus 5:15-19; 6:1-5), is not in this chapter at all.
That may be because a trespass was something to settle before coming, not something to bring along. Jesus taught the same order about a gift left at the altar while a brother waits unreconciled (Matthew 5:23-24).
The Family With the Heaviest Load Got the Most Help (7:7-8)
Gershon had charge of the curtains and coverings, and two wagons with four oxen were enough for them. Merari had the frames, the bars, the pillars and the heavy metal sockets, and got double that (7:7-8).
Merari was the smallest of the three Levite families by the count of Numbers 3:34, and it received two thirds of the wagons and two thirds of the oxen. The help was divided by what each family had been told to carry, not by how many men it had.
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Difficult Verses Explained
Why Does Numbers 7:1 Say “On the Day” When the Offerings Took Twelve Days?
Because “on the day” in Hebrew often means “about that time” rather than a single date, and the chapter itself makes the wider sense necessary. Verse 11 puts one prince on each of twelve days, so the gifts cannot all belong to one sunrise.
Exodus 40:17 dates the setting up of the tent to the first day of the first month, and Numbers 1:1 opens a month later, which tells you the book is arranged by subject rather than by strict calendar. The chapter reaches back to the dedication and gathers everything belonging to it into one account.
What Were the “Six Covered Wagons” in Numbers 7:3?
Nobody is certain, and the King James translators said so by their choice of word. The Hebrew term behind “covered” appears in only one other place in the Old Testament, Isaiah 66:20, where the same translators rendered it “litters”.
So the vehicle may have been a covered cart or a shafted litter carried between two oxen. The chapter is clear about the purpose: these were for hauling a tent that had to come down and go up again at every campsite.
Why Did the Sons of Kohath Get No Wagons or Oxen?
The verse gives the reason itself: “unto the sons of Kohath he gave none: because the service of the sanctuary belonging unto them was that they should bear upon their shoulders” (7:9). Kohath carried the ark, the table, the lampstand and the altars, and those were to be lifted on poles by men rather than loaded on a cart.
For Kohath, getting nothing meant being held to a stricter rule than his brothers. Centuries later David put the ark on a new cart, a man named Uzza was struck down reaching for it, and David’s own verdict was that “we sought him not after the due order” (1 Chronicles 15:13).
Common Misunderstandings
- That the repetition is only record-keeping with no message in it. The twelve separate days were God’s own instruction to Moses (7:11), and He gave every tribe a day of its own before any total was written down.
- That verse 89 records God’s glory coming down on the tent. It records a voice. The glory settling on the tabernacle happened earlier, in Exodus 40:34-35.
- That each tribe brought something suited to its own character or wealth. The gifts were identical down to the weight of the bowls, and their sameness is the point the chapter spends seventy-two verses making.
Christ Connection
The chapter ends at the mercy seat, and that is where it points. The mercy seat was the gold lid over the ark, and it was the one place in Israel where blood was carried in and sprinkled once a year for the sins of the whole nation (Leviticus 16:14-15).
When Greek-speaking Jews translated their Scriptures, they gave that lid the name Paul later uses of Jesus: God “set forth” His Son “to be a propitiation through faith in his blood” (Romans 3:25).
A propitiation is the sacrifice that turns God’s anger away, so Paul is presenting Jesus as what that lid pointed to. Twelve days of silver and animals ended with God speaking from above the place where atonement was made. Hebrews names the same room, with “the mercyseat” and the angels above it, and then says Christ went into the greater sanctuary carrying His own blood (Hebrews 9:3-5, 11-14).
Three smaller connections run in the same direction:
- The man who gave first is in the family line of Jesus. Nahshon son of Amminadab (7:12) appears in David’s line at Ruth 4:20 and in the genealogy of Christ at Matthew 1:4 and Luke 3:32. The tribe that opened the twelve days is the tribe of “the Lion of the tribe of Juda” (Revelation 5:5).
- The word for what they did became the name of a feast. The Hebrew word behind “dedicating” and “dedication” in this chapter (7:10, 7:84) is the word that later named the Feast of Dedication, which is where John finds Jesus: “it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter. And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon’s porch” (John 10:22-23). Israel dedicated an altar; at the feast named after that act, the One who called His own body the temple was walking in those courts (John 2:19-21).
- One goat was enough, twelve times over. A single goat covered sin on each of the twelve days, and Hebrews turns that arithmetic into the gospel: “by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified” (Hebrews 10:14). What twelve goats did for twelve days, Christ did once and for good.
Matthew Henry and others read the voice of verse 89 as the eternal Son speaking, since God’s dealings with people come through Him. The verse itself says only that Moses heard a voice, so that reading is an inference rather than a statement of the text.
What the chapter does say plainly is enough: God took the gifts, and then He spoke. The gospel keeps that order. Christ is offered, and God has spoken to us in His Son (Hebrews 1:1-2).
When, Where, and Why
- When: the second year after Israel left Egypt. The tent went up at the start of that year (Exodus 40:17), and Israel left Sinai on the twentieth day of the second month (Numbers 10:11). The twelve days of gifts fall inside that window, though the exact dates are a reconstruction and careful readers place them differently.
- Where: the wilderness of Sinai, with the whole nation camped in four blocks of three tribes around the tent (Numbers 2). The camp layout matters here, because it is the order the twelve princes approached the altar in.
- Why: Moses is showing how Israel responded when God moved in. The book has spent six chapters organising the nation around the tent, and this chapter records what the leaders did with it, then records God speaking in the exact terms He had promised at Sinai, from above the mercy seat (Exodus 25:22).
Key Verses
“Take it of them, that they may be to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; and thou shalt give them unto the Levites, to every man according to his service.”
Numbers 7:5
God accepts the gift and says what it is for in the same sentence: take it, and hand it to the men who have work to do. Nothing given was set aside to be admired.
“And the LORD said unto Moses, They shall offer their offering, each prince on his day, for the dedicating of the altar.”
Numbers 7:11
God told Moses to let one leader bring his gift each day. This is the verse that makes the chapter eighty-nine verses long, and it means the length was God’s decision rather than an accident of the record.
“This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold.”
Numbers 7:84
Here the twelve days are gathered into one act and counted, which is the chapter’s own summary of itself.
“And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubims: and he spake unto him.”
Numbers 7:89
Moses went into the tent to speak with God, and God answered out loud from above the gold lid of the ark. Everything the chapter has counted was given so that this could happen.
Key Lessons from Numbers 7
- God kept a full record of a gift that added nothing new, so the giving nobody else would count is already written down (Numbers 7:78-83; Mark 12:41-44).
- The help you are handed answers the load you have been given, not the load the person beside you carries (Numbers 7:7-8).
- Being given no help can mean being trusted with something that must be carried by hand (Numbers 7:9).
- Twelve days of celebration still opened with a goat for sin, so worship and repentance belong in the same room (Numbers 7:16).
- Giving is not finished when the gift is delivered, because the chapter ends with God speaking rather than with the total (Numbers 7:89).
To go deeper into what this chapter teaches, read our full study: 20 Real Lessons from Numbers 7.
Bible Study Questions
- Read Numbers 7:7-9. Why did Merari receive four wagons, Gershon two, and Kohath none? What does the reason given in verse 9 say about how God treats the most holy work?
- The princes brought the wagons and oxen before God asked for anything (7:2-3), and God then set the order the altar gifts had to follow (7:11). What do those two verses together say about willing giving and God’s arrangements?
- Read 7:12-17, then read 7:78-83. Nothing has changed but the name and the day. Why do you think God had every entry written out instead of summarised once?
- Judah was the largest tribe at the census and Manasseh the smallest (Numbers 1:27, 35), and each brought an identical gift. What does that say about how anyone comes to God?
- A single goat for a sin offering appears on each of the twelve days (7:16, 7:22, and on through 7:82). What does putting atonement inside a celebration teach about worship?
- Read verse 89 again, then read the promise God made in Exodus 25:22. Why does the chapter end here instead of with the totals?
- The princes gave their best for a tent that had to be taken apart and carried again and again. What does that ask of what you give?
Frequently Asked Questions
What does Numbers 7 teach about worship?
It teaches that worship God accepts is willing, ordered, costly, and never separated from atonement. The gift began with the princes rather than with a command (7:2-3), God then set who came and on which day (7:11), the silver and animals cost the givers real money, and a sin offering appeared on every one of the twelve days (7:16, and again on through 7:82).
What does Numbers 7 say about the tabernacle?
It says the tabernacle was finished, set apart for God, and built to be carried. Verse 1 records Moses anointing the tent, the altar and all their equipment, which is what set them apart for God rather than leaving them ordinary furniture. Verses 6 to 9 then show God arranging its transport, assigning wagons to two Levite families and requiring the holiest furniture to travel on men’s shoulders.
What is the “shekel of the sanctuary” in Numbers 7?
It was the standard weight kept at the tabernacle and used to measure anything given to God. Exodus 30:13 sets it as the official measure, so a silver dish of 130 shekels meant the same amount everywhere in Israel. A shekel weighed roughly eleven grams, which puts each dish at about three pounds and the whole silver gift at about sixty.
Is Numbers 7 the longest chapter in the Bible?
No, Psalm 119 is longer, with 176 verses against Numbers 7’s 89. By verse count Numbers 7 is the second longest chapter in the Bible, and no chapter from Genesis through Deuteronomy runs past it. Deuteronomy 28, the next longest in the Law of Moses, has 68 verses.
Numbers 7, The Full Text (KJV)
Read the full chapter below for reference.
1 And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it, and all the instruments thereof, both the altar and all the vessels thereof, and had anointed them, and sanctified them;
2 That the princes of Israel, heads of the house of their fathers, who were the princes of the tribes, and were over them that were numbered, offered:
3 And they brought their offering before the LORD, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they brought them before the tabernacle.
4 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
5 Take it of them, that they may be to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; and thou shalt give them unto the Levites, to every man according to his service.
6 And Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them unto the Levites.
7 Two wagons and four oxen he gave unto the sons of Gershon, according to their service:
8 And four wagons and eight oxen he gave unto the sons of Merari, according unto their service, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
9 But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none: because the service of the sanctuary belonging unto them was that they should bear upon their shoulders.
10 And the princes offered for dedicating of the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the princes offered their offering before the altar.
11 And the LORD said unto Moses, They shall offer their offering, each prince on his day, for the dedicating of the altar.
12 And he that offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:
13 And his offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
14 One spoon of ten shekels of gold, full of incense:
15 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
16 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
17 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
18 On the second day Nethaneel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, did offer:
19 He offered for his offering one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
20 One spoon of gold of ten shekels, full of incense:
21 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
22 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
23 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
24 On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun, did offer:
25 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
26 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
27 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
28 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
29 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.
30 On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the children of Reuben, did offer:
31 His offering was one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
32 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
33 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
34 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
35 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.
36 On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of the children of Simeon, did offer:
37 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
38 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
39 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
40 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
41 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
42 On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the children of Gad, offered:
43 His offering was one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, a silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
44 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
45 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
46 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
47 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
48 On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim, offered:
49 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
50 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
51 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
52 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
53 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.
54 On the eighth day offered Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh:
55 His offering was one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
56 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
57 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
58 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
59 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
60 On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the children of Benjamin, offered:
61 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
62 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
63 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
64 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
65 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.
66 On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the children of Dan, offered:
67 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
68 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
69 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
70 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
71 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
72 On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ocran, prince of the children of Asher, offered:
73 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
74 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
75 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
76 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
77 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ocran.
78 On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children of Naphtali, offered:
79 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
80 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
81 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
82 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
83 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.
84 This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold:
85 Each charger of silver weighing an hundred and thirty shekels, each bowl seventy: all the silver vessels weighed two thousand and four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
86 The golden spoons were twelve, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary: all the gold of the spoons was an hundred and twenty shekels.
87 All the oxen for the burnt offering were twelve bullocks, the rams twelve, the lambs of the first year twelve, with their meat offering: and the kids of the goats for sin offering twelve.
88 And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace offerings were twenty and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he goats sixty, the lambs of the first year sixty. This was the dedication of the altar, after that it was anointed.
89 And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubims: and he spake unto him.
