Add parallel Print Page Options

86 The 12 gold spoons filled with incense weighed 4 ounces each, using the official measure. The 12 gold spoons all together weighed about 3 pounds.[a]

87 The total number of animals for the burnt offering was 12 bulls, 12 rams, and 12 one-year-old male lambs. There were also the grain offerings that must be given with these offerings. And there were 12 male goats to be used for a sin offering. 88 The leaders also gave animals to be killed and used as a fellowship offering. The total number of these animals was 24 bulls, 60 rams, 60 male goats, and 60 one-year-old male lambs. In this way they dedicated the altar after Moses anointed it.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Numbers 7:86 about 3 pounds Literally, “120 shekels” (1.4 kg).

86 The twelve gold dishes filled with incense weighed ten shekels each, according to the sanctuary shekel.(A) Altogether, the gold dishes weighed a hundred and twenty shekels.[a] 87 The total number of animals for the burnt offering(B) came to twelve young bulls, twelve rams and twelve male lambs a year old, together with their grain offering.(C) Twelve male goats were used for the sin offering.(D) 88 The total number of animals for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering(E) came to twenty-four oxen, sixty rams, sixty male goats and sixty male lambs(F) a year old. These were the offerings for the dedication of the altar after it was anointed.(G)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Numbers 7:86 That is, about 3 pounds or about 1.4 kilograms