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The tabernacle being now consecrated, and a regular order being
settled for the priests, the multitude judged that God now dwelt among
them, and betook themselves to sacrifices and praises to God as being now
delivered from all expectation of evils and as entertaining a hopeful prospect
of better times hereafter. They offered also gifts to God some as common
to the whole nation, and others as peculiar to themselves, and these tribe
by tribe; for the heads of the tribes combined together, two by two, and
brought a waggon and a yoke of oxen. These amounted to six, and they carried
the tabernacle when they journeyed. Besides which, each head of a tribe
brought a bowl, and a charger, and a spoon, of ten darics, full of incense.
Now the charger and the bowl were of silver, and together they weighed
two hundred shekels, but the bowl cost no more than seventy shekels; and
these were full of fine flour mingled with oil, such as they used on the
altar about the sacrifices. They brought also a young bullock, and a ram,
with a lamb of a year old, for a whole burnt-offering, as also a goat for
the forgiveness of sins. Every one of the heads of the tribes brought also
other sacrifices, called peace-offerings, for every day two bulls,
and five rams, with lambs of a year old, and kids of the goats. These heads
of tribes were twelve days in sacrificing, one sacrificing every day. Now
Moses went no longer up to Mount Sinai, but went into the tabernacle, and
learned of God what they were to do, and what laws should be made; which
laws were preferable to what have been devised by human understanding,
and proved to be firmly observed for all time to come, as being believed
to be the gift of God, insomuch that the Hebrews did not transgress any
of those laws, either as tempted in times of peace by luxury, or in times
of war by distress of affairs. But I say no more here concerning them,
because I have resolved to compose another work concerning our laws.
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1 THE MANNER OF OUR OFFERING SACRIFICES.
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