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What does Numbers 7:66 mean?
"On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the children of Dan"
— Numbers 7:66 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
one male goat for a sin offering;
and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.
On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the children of Dan
gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
Explanation
Numbers 7:66 simply identifies the next person in a long sequence: on the tenth day of the tabernacle's dedication ceremony, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai, the leader of the tribe of Dan, stepped forward to present his tribe's offering. Read on its own, the verse looks like a bare historical note, but it belongs to a repeating twelve-day pattern in which each of Israel's twelve tribal leaders brought identical gifts to dedicate the altar of the newly built tabernacle.
The book of Numbers was written by Moses, addressed to the Israelites as they organized themselves in the wilderness after leaving Egypt and receiving the law at Sinai. Chapter 7 describes the dedication of the altar once the tabernacle was completed and anointed (Numbers 7:1). God instructed that each tribal leader would bring his offering on a separate day, one tribe per day for twelve days, so that every tribe's gift would be individually recorded and honored rather than being lumped into a single anonymous mass.
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