Numbers 7:1

Now it happened in the day when Moses completed the tabernacle, and he set it up, and he anointed and sanctified it with all of its vessels, and similarly the altar and all of its vessels,

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In The King James Version

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;

In Context

2that the leaders of Israel and the heads of the families, who were in each tribe and who were in charge of those who had been numbered, offered

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Cross References

Genesis 2:3And he blessed the seventh day and sanctified it. For in it, he had ceased from all his work: the work whereby God created whatever he should make.

Exodus 29:36and you shall offer a calf for sin on each day, as an atonement. And you shall cleanse the altar when you will have immolated the victim of expiation, and you shall anoint it for sanctification.

Exodus 30:29And you shall sanctify everything, and they shall be the Holy of holies. He who will touch them must be sanctified.

Exodus 40:11the washtub with its base, and all things, you shall consecrate with the oil of unction, so that they may be the Holy of holies.

Leviticus 8:10He also took up the oil of anointing, with which he anointed the tabernacle, along with all of its articles.

Numbers 7:84These were the oblations from the leaders of Israel for the dedication of the altar on the day when it was consecrated: twelve dishes of silver, twelve bowls of silver, twelve little mortars of gold,

Matthew Henry on Numbers 7:1

God having set up house (as it were) in the midst of the camp of Israel, the princes of Israel here come a visiting with their presents, as tenants to their landlord, in the name of their respective tribes. I. They brought presents, 1. Upon the dedication of the tabernacle, for the service of that, ver. 1-9 . 2. Upon the dedication of the altar, for the use of that, ver. 10-88 . And, II. God graciously signified his acceptance of them, ver. 89 . The two foregoing chapters were the records of additional laws which… Read the whole commentary →

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