Working with Numbers!!!!

⁸⁴ So this was the dedication offering brought by the leaders of Israel at the time the altar was anointed: twelve silver platters, twelve silver basins, and twelve gold incense containers. ⁸⁵ Each silver platter weighed 31⁄4 pounds, and each silver basin weighed 13⁄4 pounds. The total weight of the silver was 60 pounds^[d] (as measured by the weight of the sanctuary shekel). ⁸⁶ Each of the twelve gold containers that was filled with incense weighed four ounces (as measured by the weight of the sanctuary shekel). The total weight of the gold was three pounds.^{[e] 87} Twelve young bulls, twelve rams, and twelve one-year-old male lambs were donated for the burnt offerings, along with their prescribed grain offerings. Twelve male goats were brought for the sin offerings. ⁸⁸ Twenty-four bulls, sixty rams, sixty male goats, and sixty one-year-old male lambs were donated for the peace offerings. This was the dedication offering for the altar after it was anointed.  Numbers 7:84-88


I read through today’s readings and wondered what I could take from that today. So then I thought “I wonder if the math was right?” so I checked the totals on some of the animals and items. Then I even made sure that all of the “choice flour” was moistened with olive oil just in case someone forgot.

Finally it hit me that the scribes that copied the scripture years ago before the printing press probably did the same thing as they copied on to the scrolls.


⁸⁹ Whenever Moses went into the Tabernacle to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from between the two cherubim above the Ark’s cover—the place of atonement—that rests on the Ark of the Covenant.^[f] The LORD spoke to him from there.  Numbers 7:89

This passage is just mind boggling to try to imagine. Life was not boring for Moses!


Please post your thoughts on today's passages!

Today’s readings:

 NUMBERS 7:1-89

Tomorrow’s Readings:

NUMBERS 8:1-9:14
LEVITICUS 1:1-3:17