🔢WEB · Numbers 7:83
What does Numbers 7:83 mean?
"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 Ahira the son of Enan."
— Numbers 7:83 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;
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 Ahira the son of Enan.
This was the dedication of the altar, on the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve silver platters, twelve silver bowls, twelve golden ladles;
each silver platter weighing one hundred thirty shekels, and each bowl seventy; all the silver of the vessels two thousand four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary;
the twelve golden ladles, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of the ladles weighed one hundred twenty shekels;
Explanation
This verse falls at the very end of a long, repeated list in Numbers 7, describing the last of twelve identical offerings brought by the leaders of Israel's tribes. Ahira son of Enan was the leader of the tribe of Naphtali, and his gift mirrors exactly what every other tribal leader gave: two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five year-old male lambs, all offered as "peace offerings" (sometimes translated "fellowship offerings"). In plain language, this is simply the concluding note recording that Naphtali's tribe fulfilled its part in a shared act of worship, giving the same measure and kind of sacrifice as everyone else.
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