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12-83 So each leader brought the following gifts:

a silver bowl that weighed one and a half kilograms and a silver sprinkling bowl weighing almost a kilogram, both of them filled with flour and olive oil as grain sacrifices and weighed according to the official standards;

a small gold dish filled with incense;

a young bull, a full-grown ram, and a year-old ram as sacrifices to please the Lord;[a]

a goat[b] as a sacrifice for sin;

and two bulls, five full-grown rams, five goats, and five rams a year old as sacrifices to ask the Lord's blessing.[c]

The tribal leaders brought their gifts and offerings in the following order:

On the first day

Nahshon from Judah,

on the second day

Nethanel from Issachar,

on the third day

Eliab from Zebulun,

on the fourth day

Elizur from Reuben,

on the fifth day

Shelumiel from Simeon,

on the sixth day

Eliasaph from Gad,

on the seventh day

Elishama from Ephraim,

on the eighth day

Gamaliel from Manasseh,

on the ninth day

Abidan from Benjamin,

on the tenth day

Ahiezer from Dan,

on the eleventh day

Pagiel from Asher,

on the twelfth day

Ahira from Naphtali.

84-88 And so when the altar was dedicated to the Lord, these twelve leaders brought the following gifts:

12 silver bowls and 12 silver sprinkling bowls, weighing a total of almost 28 kilograms, according to the official standards;

12 gold dishes filled with incense and weighing over a kilogram;

12 bulls, 12 full-grown rams, and 12 rams a year old as sacrifices to please the Lord, along with the proper grain sacrifices;

12 goats as sacrifices for sin;

and 24 bulls, 60 full-grown rams, 60 goats, and 60 rams a year old as sacrifices to ask the Lord's blessing.

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Footnotes

  1. 7.12-83 sacrifices to please the Lord: See the note at 6.11.
  2. 7.12-83 goat: Hebrew “male goat.”
  3. 7.12-83 sacrifices to ask the Lord's blessing: See the note at 6.14.

83 and two oxen, five rams, five male goats and five male lambs a year old to be sacrificed as a fellowship offering. This was the offering of Ahira son of Enan.

84 These were the offerings of the Israelite leaders for the dedication of the altar when it was anointed:(A) twelve silver plates, twelve silver sprinkling bowls(B) and twelve gold dishes.(C) 85 Each silver plate weighed a hundred and thirty shekels, and each sprinkling bowl seventy shekels. Altogether, the silver dishes weighed two thousand four hundred shekels,[a] according to the sanctuary shekel.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 7:85 That is, about 60 pounds or about 28 kilograms