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84-88 The totals of the offerings brought by the twelve leaders for the dedication of the altar were as follows:

  • twelve silver bowls and twelve silver basins weighing a total of 60 pounds
  • twelve gold dishes weighing a total of 48 ounces, filled with incense
  • twelve bulls, twelve rams, and twelve one-year-old lambs, plus the grain offerings that go with them, for the burnt offerings
  • twelve goats for the sin offerings
  • twenty-four bulls, sixty rams, sixty goats, sixty one-year-old lambs, for the fellowship offerings

89 When Moses went into the Tent to talk with the Lord, he heard the Lord speaking to him from above the lid on the Covenant Box, between the two winged creatures.[a]

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  1. Numbers 7:89 See Word List.

88 The total number of animals for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering(A) came to twenty-four oxen, sixty rams, sixty male goats and sixty male lambs(B) a year old. These were the offerings for the dedication of the altar after it was anointed.(C)

89 When Moses entered the tent of meeting(D) to speak with the Lord,(E) he heard the voice speaking to him from between the two cherubim above the atonement cover(F) on the ark of the covenant law.(G) In this way the Lord spoke to him.

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