CHAPTER VII _When the tabernacle was fully set up, it appeared that the_ _princes of the twelve tribes had prepared six covered wagons,_ _drawn by two oxen each, one wagon for two tribes, for the_ _service of the tabernacle_, 1-3. _Moses is commanded to receive this offering, and distribute the... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Numbers 7:3. _SIX COVERED WAGONS_] שש עגלת צב _shesh egloth tsab, six_ _tilted wagons_, the Septuagint translate ἑξ ἁμαξας λαμπηνικας, with which the _Coptic_ agrees; but what _lampenic chariots_ were, no person pretends to know. _Covered_ or _tilted_ is probably the meaning of the original.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Numbers 7:5. _ACCORDING TO HIS SERVICE._] That is, distribute them among the Levites _as they may need them_, giving most to those who have the _heaviest burdens_ to bear.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Numbers 7:7. _TWO WAGONS - UNTO THE SONS OF GERSHON_] The Gershonites carried only the _curtains, coverings_, and _hangings_, Numbers 4:25. And although this was a _cumbersome_ carriage, and they needed the wagons, yet it was not a heavy one.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Numbers 7:8. _FOUR WAGONS - UNTO THE SONS OF MERARI_] Because they had the _boards, bars, pillars_, and _sockets_ of the tabernacle to carry, Numbers 4:31-4, therefore they had as many more wagons as the _Gershonites_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Numbers 7:9. _UNTO THE SONS OF KOHATH HE GAVE NONE_] Because they had the charge of the _ark, table, candlestick, altars_, c., Numbers 4:5-4, which were to be carried _upon their shoulders_ for those sacred things must not be drawn by beasts.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Numbers 7:10. _AND THE PRINCES OFFERED_] Every _prince_ or _chief_ offered in the _behalf_, and doubtless at the _expense_, of his whole tribe.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Numbers 7:13. _ONE SILVER CHARGER_] קערת _kaarath_, a _dish_, or _deep bowl_, in which they kneaded the paste. See Exodus 25:29. _ONE SILVER BOWL_] מזרק _mizrak_, a _bason_, to receive the blood of the sacrifice in. Exodus 27:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Numbers 7:14. _ONE SPOON_] כף _caph_, a _censer_, on which they put the incense. See Exodus 25:29. It is worthy of remark that the different tribes are represented here as bringing their offerings precisely in the same order in which they encamped about the tabernacle. See Numbers 2:1 and Num... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 48. _ON THE SEVENTH DAY_] Both Jewish and Christian writers have been surprised that this work of offering went forward on the _seventh day_, which they suppose to have been a _Sabbath_, as well as on the other days. But 1. There is no absolute proof that this _seventh_ day of offering was a... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Numbers 7:72. _ON THE ELEVENTH DAY_] The Hebrew form of expression, here and in the Numbers 7:78, Numbers 7:78 verse, has something curious in it. ביום עשתי עשר יום _beyom ashtey asar yom, In the day, the_ _first and tenth day_; ביום שנים עשר יום beyom sheneym asar yom, In _the day, two and t... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Numbers 7:84. _THIS WAS THE DEDICATION OF THE ALTAR, IN THE DAY,_ _c._] Meaning here the _time_ in which it was dedicated for as each tribe had a whole day for its representative or prince to present the offerings it had provided, consequently the dedication, in which each had his day, must ha... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Numbers 7:88. _AFTER THAT IT WAS ANOINTED._] By the anointing the altar was consecrated to God; by this dedication it was solemnly appointed to that service for which it had been erected.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Numbers 7:89. _TO SPEAK WITH HIM_] To confer with God, and to receive farther discoveries of his will. _HE HEARD THE VOICE OF ONE SPEAKING UNTO HIM_] Though Moses saw no similitude, but _only heard a voice_, yet he had the fullest proof of the _presence_ as well as of the _being_ of the Almig... [ Continue Reading ]