Treasury of Scripture
Numbers 7:13 And his offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels...
The oblations and sacrifices enumerated in verses
Numbers 7:13 And his offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels...
to
Numbers 7:88 And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace offerings were twenty and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he goats sixty...
were simple and plain, though costly and magnificent. On this occasion we find there were offered
12 silver chargers, each weighing
1130 shekels;
12 silver bowls, each
70 shekels;
Numbers 7:12 And he that offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:
golden spoons, each
10 shekels; making the total amount of silver vessels
2400 shekels, and that of golden vessels,
120 shekels. By this we may at once see, that though the place in which they now sojourned was a wilderness as to cities, villages, and regular inhabitants, yet there was plenty of pasturage; else the Israelites could not have furnished these cattle, with all the sacrifices necessary for different occasions, and especially for the passover, which must of itself have required an immense number of lambs, when each family of
600,000 males was obliged to provide one.