Numbers 7:13-89; The oblations and sacrifices enumerated in Numbers 7:13-88 were simple and plain, though costly and magnificent. On this occasion we find there were offered 12 silver chargers, each weighing 130 shekels; 12 silver bowls, each 70 shekels; 12 golden spoons, each 10 shekels; making the total amount of silver vessels 2,400 shekels, and that of golden vessels, 120 shekels. A silver charger, at 130 shekels, reduced to troy weight, makes 75 oz. 9 dwts. 16, 8/31 gr.; and a silver bowl, at 70 shekels, amounts to 40 oz. 12 dwts. 21, 21/31 gr. The total weight of the 12 chargers is therefore 905 oz. 16 dwts. 3, 3/31 gr.; and that of the 12 bowls, 487 oz. 14 dwts. 20; 4/31 gr.; making the total weight of silver vessels 1,393 oz. 10 dwts. 23, 7/31 gr. The golden spoons, allowing each to be 5 oz. 16 dwts. 3, 3/31 gr., amount to 69 oz. 3 dwts. 13, 5/31 gr. Besides these, there were for sacrifice -parBullocks, 12
Rams, 12
Lambs, 12
Goats, 24
Rams, 60
He goats, 60
Lambs, 60
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 (Numbers 9:1).