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Numbers 7:84

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

This [was] the dedication of the altar by the princes,.... These the presents they made, and the offerings they offered when the altar first began to be made use of, after it had been anointed and sanctified for sacred service: in the day when it was anointed: this shows that it was not the precise and exact day of the setting up of the...

Numbers 7:85

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

Each charger of silver [weighing] an hundred and thirty [shekels], each bowl seventy,.... [See comments on Numbers 7:13]; all the silver vessels [weighed] two thousand and four hundred [shekels], after the shekel of the sanctuary; which amounted to 1,139 ounces and four drachms (k), which were worth about three hundred pounds of our money. (k)...

Numbers 7:86

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

The golden spoons [were] twelve, full of incense,.... Which points at the use those spoons or cups were of, namely, to carry incense in them, such as were used on the day of atonement (l): [weighing] ten [shekels] apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary; [See comments on Numbers 7:14]; all the gold of the spoons [was] twenty [shekels]; which...

Numbers 7:87

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

All the oxen for the burnt offering [were] twelve bullocks,.... According to the number of the princes and their tribes, and so, the rams twelve, the lambs of the first year twelve; which were also for the burnt offering: with their meat offering; which always went along with the burnt offering: and the kids of the goats, for a sin offering,...