He blessed the seventh day and set it apart as a special day, because by that day he had completed his creation and stopped working.
Numbers 7:1 - Good News Translation (US Version) On the day Moses finished setting up the Tent of the Lord's presence, he anointed and dedicated the Tent and all its equipment, and the altar and all its equipment. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition ON THE day that Moses had fully completed setting up the tabernacle and had anointed and consecrated it and all its furniture, and the altar and all its utensils, and had anointed and set them apart for holy use, American Standard Version (1901) And it came to pass on the day that Moses had made an end of setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it, and all the furniture thereof, and the altar and all the vessels thereof, and had anointed them and sanctified them; Common English Bible On the day when Moses finished setting up the dwelling, he anointed and made it holy. All its equipment, as well as the altar and all its equipment, he also anointed and made holy. Catholic Public Domain Version 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, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And it came to pass in the day that Moses had finished the tabernacle, and set it up, and had anointed and sanctified it with all its vessels, the altar likewise and all the vessels thereof: |
He blessed the seventh day and set it apart as a special day, because by that day he had completed his creation and stopped working.
That same day he also consecrated the central part of the courtyard, the area in front of the Temple, and then he offered there the sacrifices burned whole, the grain offerings, and the fat of the animals for the fellowship offerings. He did this because the bronze altar was too small for all these offerings.
“Dedicate all the first-born males to me, for every first-born male Israelite and every first-born male animal belongs to me.”
Each day you must offer a bull as a sacrifice, so that sin may be forgiven. This will purify the altar. Then anoint it with olive oil to make it holy.
“Tell the people of Israel to give you twelve walking sticks, one from the leader of each tribe. Write each man's name on his stick
The leaders also brought offerings to celebrate the dedication of the altar. When they were ready to present their gifts at the altar,
The totals of the offerings brought by the twelve leaders for the dedication of the altar were as follows: –twelve silver bowls and twelve silver basins weighing a total of 60 pounds –twelve gold dishes weighing a total of 48 ounces, filled with incense –twelve bulls, twelve rams, and twelve one-year-old lambs, plus the grain offerings that go with them, for the burnt offerings –twelve goats for the sin offerings –twenty-four bulls, sixty rams, sixty goats, sixty one-year-old lambs, for the fellowship offerings
How blind you are! Which is the more important, the gift or the altar which makes the gift holy?