Numbers 7:1

On the day that Moses completed the tabernacle, he anointed it and set it apart to Yahweh, together with all of its furnishings. He did the same for the altar and all its utensils. He anointed them and set them apart to Yahweh.

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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

2On that day, the leaders of Israel, the heads of their ancestor's families, offered sacrifices. These men were leading the tribes. They had overseen the counting of the men in the census.

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Cross References

Genesis 2:3God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it he rested from all his work which he had done in his creation.

Exodus 29:36Every day you must offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement. You must purify the altar by making atonement for it, and you must anoint it in order to set it apart to me.

Exodus 30:29You must set them apart to me so that they may be holy to me. Anything that touches them will also be holy.

Exodus 40:11You must anoint the bronze basin and its base and set it apart to me.

Leviticus 8:10Moses took the anointing oil, anointed the tabernacle and everything in it and set them apart to Yahweh.

Numbers 7:84The leaders of Israel set all these apart on the day that Moses anointed the altar. They set apart the twelve silver platters, twelve silver bowls, and twelve gold dishes.

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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