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Text -- Numbers 7:1-7 (NET)
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The Leader’s Offerings
7:1 When Moses had completed setting up the tabernacle , he anointed it and consecrated it and all its furnishings , and he anointed and consecrated the altar and all its utensils .
7:2 Then the leaders of Israel , the heads of their clans , made an offering . They were the leaders of the tribes ; they were the ones who had been supervising the numbering .
7:3 They brought their offering before the Lord , six covered carts and twelve oxen – one cart for every two of the leaders , and an ox for each one ; and they presented them in front of the tabernacle .
The Distribution of the Gifts
7:4 Then the Lord spoke to Moses :
7:5 “Receive these gifts from them, that they may be used in doing the work of the tent of meeting ; and you must give them to the Levites , to every man as his service requires.”
7:6 So Moses accepted the carts and the oxen and gave them to the Levites .
7:7 He gave two carts and four oxen to the Gershonites , as their service required;
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Liberality |
SPOON |
Dedication |
Altar |
Spoons |
Israel |
Wagon |
Merarites |
Tabernacle |
CART |
Bull |
Government |
LITTER |
Gershon |
Anointing |
Church |
BIRTHRIGHT |
GERSHON; GERSHONITES |
FATHER'S HOUSE, FATHERS' HOUSE |
Governor |
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NET Notes: Num 7:1 This chapter belongs chronologically after Lev 8:11, because Aaron and his sons were not yet made the celebrants and officiants of the new shrine (com...
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NET Notes: Num 7:2 The form is the Qal active participle from the verb “to stand” (עָמַד, ’amad). The form describes thes...
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NET Notes: Num 7:3 For a discussion and drawings, see W. S. McCullough, IDB 1:540. But see also D. J. Wiseman, IBD 1:254.
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