This is a long chapter with 89 verses relating the 12 days of offerings at the dedication of the Tabernacle. Initially the tribal leaders gave 6 covered carts and 12 oxen for the use of transporting the Tabernacle, and Moses gave 2 carts and 4 oxen to the Gershonites, and he gave the rest to the Merarites. None of these went to the Kohathites as they were to carry the holy things on their shoulders and didn't need carts.
Over a period of 12 days the tribal leaders brought identical gifts and offerings with one tribe per day. They brought each day a silver plate and a silver sprinkling bowl - with both filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering. Then too a gold ladle filled with incense was given plus a young bull, a ram and a male lamb as a burnt offering, 1 male goat for a sin offering, 2 oxen, 5 rams, 5 male goats and 5 male lambs as a fellowship/peace offering. For 12 days this was repeated.
And at the end of it all God spoke with Moses in the Holy of Holies and Moses heard his voice and spoke with the Lord.
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