Numbers 7:87,88 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Their meat-offering Which was not mentioned before, because it was sufficiently understood from the law which required it. After it was anointed Which words are very conveniently added to explain in what sense he had so often said that this was done in the day when it was anointed Namely, not exactly, but in a latitude, a little after it was anointed.

Numbers 7:87-88

87 All the oxen for the burnt offering were twelve bullocks, the rams twelve, the lambs of the first year twelve, with their meat offering: and the kids of the goats for sin offering twelve.

88 And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace offerings were twenty and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he goats sixty, the lambs of the first year sixty. This was the dedication of the altar, after that it was anointed.