Numbers 7:1

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The Leader’s Offerings When Moses had completed setting up the tabernacle, he anointed it and consecrated it and all its furnishings, and he anointed and consecrated the altar and all its utensils.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיְהִ֡י בְּיוֹם֩ כַּלּ֨וֹת מֹשֶׁ֜ה לְהָקִ֣ים אֶת־הַמִּשְׁכָּ֗ן וַיִּמְשַׁ֨ח אֹת֜וֹ וַיְקַדֵּ֤שׁ אֹתוֹ֙ וְאֶת־כָּל־כֵּלָ֔יו וְאֶת־הַמִּזְבֵּ֖חַ וְאֶת־כָּל־כֵּלָ֑יו וַיִּמְשָׁחֵ֖ם וַיְקַדֵּ֥שׁ אֹתָֽם׃

Transliteration

wa-yəhî in yôm kallôt Mōšeh ləhāqîm ʾet-the-miškān wa-yimšaḥ ʾōtô wa-yəqaddēš ʾōtô wə-ʾet-all-kēlāyw wə-ʾet-the-mizbēaḥ wə-ʾet-all-kēlāyw wa-yimšāḥēm wa-yəqaddēš ʾōtām

Grammar Details

• *wa-yəhî*: consecutive imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and it came to pass/happened
• *yôm*: masculine singular construct - day of
• *kallôt*: infinitive construct of *kālâ* - to complete/finish
• *Mōšeh*: proper noun, masculine singular - Moses
• *ləhāqîm*: preposition + hiphil infinitive construct - to set up/erect
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *miškān*: noun, masculine singular - tabernacle/dwelling place
• *wa-yimšaḥ*: consecutive imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he anointed
• *ʾōtô*: direct object marker with 3rd masculine singular suffix - it/him
• *wa-yəqaddēš*: consecutive imperfect, 3rd masculine singular, piel - and he sanctified/consecrated
• *kēlāyw*: noun, masculine plural construct with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his vessels/utensils
• *mizbēaḥ*: noun, masculine singular - altar
• *wa-yimšāḥēm*: consecutive imperfect, 3rd masculine singular with 3rd masculine plural suffix - and he anointed them
• *ʾōtām*: direct object marker with 3rd masculine plural suffix - them

Word Meanings

• *yəhî*: happened/came to pass/was
• *kallôt*: finishing/completing/ending
• *ləhāqîm*: to raise up/to erect/to establish
• *miškān*: tabernacle/dwelling place/tent sanctuary
• *yimšaḥ*: anointed/smeared with oil
• *yəqaddēš*: sanctified/consecrated/set apart

Referenced Verses

• Lev 8:10-11 : 10 Anointing the Tabernacle and Aaron, and Clothing Aaron’s Sons Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and everything in it, and so consecrated them. 11 Next he sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times and so anointed the altar, all its vessels, and the washbasin and its stand to consecrate them.
• Lev 9:1-9 : 1 Inauguration of Tabernacle Worship On the eighth day Moses summoned Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel, 2 and said to Aaron,“Take for yourself a bull calf for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both flawless, and present them before the LORD. 3 Then tell the Israelites:‘Take a male goat for a sin offering and a calf and lamb, both a year old and flawless, for a burnt offering, 4 and an ox and a ram for peace offerings to sacrifice before the LORD, and a grain offering mixed with olive oil, for today the LORD is going to appear to you.’” 5 So they took what Moses had commanded to the front of the Meeting Tent and the whole congregation presented them and stood before the LORD. 6 Then Moses said,“This is what the LORD has commanded you to do so that the glory of the LORD may appear to you.” 7 Moses then said to Aaron,“Approach the altar and make your sin offering and your burnt offering, and make atonement on behalf of yourself and on behalf of the people; and also make the people’s offering and make atonement on behalf of them just as the LORD has commanded.” 8 The Sin Offering for the Priests So Aaron approached the altar and slaughtered the sin offering calf which was for himself. 9 Then Aaron’s sons presented the blood to him and he dipped his finger in the blood and put it on the horns of the altar, and the rest of the blood he poured out at the base of the altar. 10 The fat and the kidneys and the protruding lobe of the liver from the sin offering he offered up in smoke on the altar just as the LORD had commanded Moses, 11 but the flesh and the hide he completely burned up outside the camp. 12 The Burnt Offering for the Priests He then slaughtered the burnt offering, and his sons handed the blood to him and he splashed it against the altar’s sides. 13 The burnt offering itself they handed to him by its parts, including the head, and he offered them up in smoke on the altar, 14 and he washed the entrails and the legs and offered them up in smoke on top of the burnt offering on the altar. 15 The Offerings for the People Then he presented the people’s offering. He took the sin offering male goat which was for the people, slaughtered it, and performed a purification rite with it like the first one. 16 He then presented the burnt offering, and did it according to the standard regulation. 17 Next he presented the grain offering, filled his hand with some of it, and offered it up in smoke on the altar in addition to the morning burnt offering. 18 Then he slaughtered the ox and the ram– the peace offering sacrifices which were for the people– and Aaron’s sons handed the blood to him and he splashed it against the altar’s sides. 19 As for the fat parts from the ox and from the ram(the fatty tail, the fat covering the entrails, the kidneys, and the protruding lobe of the liver), 20 they set those on the breasts and he offered the fat parts up in smoke on the altar. 21 Finally Aaron waved the breasts and the right thigh as a wave offering before the LORD just as Moses had commanded. 22 Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them and descended from making the sin offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offering. 23 Moses and Aaron then entered into the Meeting Tent. When they came out, they blessed the people, and the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people. 24 Then fire went out from the presence of the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the fat parts on the altar, and all the people saw it, so they shouted loudly and fell down with their faces to the ground.
• Num 7:84 : 84 Summary This was the dedication for the altar from the leaders of Israel, when it was anointed: twelve silver platters, twelve silver sprinkling bowls, and twelve gold pans.
• Num 7:88 : 88 All the animals for the sacrifice for the peace offering were 24 young bulls, 60 rams, 60 male goats, and 60 lambs in their first year. These were the dedication offerings for the altar after it was anointed.
• 1 Kgs 8:64 : 64 That day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard that is in front of the LORD’s temple. He offered there burnt sacrifices, grain offerings, and the fat from the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that stood before the LORD was too small to hold all these offerings.
• Matt 23:19 : 19 You are blind! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
• Gen 2:3 : 3 God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he ceased all the work that he had been doing in creation.
• Exod 13:2 : 2 “Set apart to me every firstborn male– the first offspring of every womb among the Israelites, whether human or animal; it is mine.”
• Exod 30:23-30 : 23 “Take choice spices: twelve and a half pounds of free-flowing myrrh, half that– about six and a quarter pounds– of sweet-smelling cinnamon, six and a quarter pounds of sweet-smelling cane, 24 and twelve and a half pounds of cassia, all weighed according to the sanctuary shekel, and four quarts of olive oil. 25 You are to make this into a sacred anointing oil, a perfumed compound, the work of a perfumer. It will be sacred anointing oil. 26 “With it you are to anoint the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony, 27 the table and all its utensils, the lampstand and its utensils, the altar of incense, 28 the altar for the burnt offering and all its utensils, and the laver and its base. 29 So you are to sanctify them, and they will be most holy; anything that touches them will be holy. 30 “You are to anoint Aaron and his sons and sanctify them, so that they may minister as my priests.
• Exod 40:9-9 : 9 And take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and sanctify it and all its furnishings, and it will be holy. 10 Then you are to anoint the altar for the burnt offering with all its utensils; you are to sanctify the altar, and it will be the most holy altar.
• Exod 40:17-19 : 17 So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month, in the second year. 18 When Moses set up the tabernacle and put its bases in place, he set up its frames, attached its bars, and set up its posts. 19 Then he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent over it, as the LORD had commanded Moses.