1   And it came to passe in the day that Moyses finished the tabernacle, and erected it: he anoynted also and sanctified it with al the vessel therof, the altar likewise and al the vessel therof.

2   The princes of Israel and the heades of the families, that were in euerie tribe, and the rulers of them, that had bene numbered, offered

3   giftes before our Lord six waines couered, with twelue oxen. Two princes offered one waine, and euerie man one oxe and they offered them before the tabernacle.

4   And our Lord said to Moyses:

5   Take them of their handes to serue in the ministerie of the tabernacle, and thou shalt deliuer them to the Leuites according to the order of their ministerie.

6   When Moyses therfore had taken the waines and the oxen, he deliuered them to the Leuites.

7   Two waines and foure oxen he gaue to the sonnes of Gerson, according to that which was necessarie for them.

8   the other foure waines, and the eight oxen he gaue to the sonnes of Merari according to their offices and seruice, vnder the hand of Ithamar the sonne of Aaron the priest.

9   but to the sonnes of Caath he gaue not waines and oxen: because they serue in the sanctuarie, and carie their burdens ^note vpon their owne shoulders.

10   The princes therfore offered vnto the dedication of the altar, the daie wherin it was anoynted, their oblation before the altar.

11   And our Lord said to Moyses: Let the princes one and one euerie day offer their giftes vnto the dedication of the altar.

12   The first day Nahaslon the sonne of Aminadab of the tribe of Iuda offered his oblation:

13   and there were in it a siluer plate of an hundred and thirtie sicles weight, a phial of siluer hauing seuentie sicles according to the weight of the Sanctuarie, both ful of flower tempered with oyle for a sacrifice:

14   a little morter of ten sicles of gold ful of incense:

15   an oxe out of the hearde, and a ramme, and a lambe of a yeare old for an holocaust:

16   and a bucke goat for sinne:

17   and for a sacrifice of pacifiques, two oxen, fiue rammes, fiue bucke goates, fiue lambes of a yeare old. this is the oblation of Nahasson the sonne of Aminidab.

18   The

The Princes offerings. second day offered Nathanael the sonne of Suar, prince of the tribe of Issachar,

19   a plate of filuer weying an hundred thirtie sicles, a phial of siluer hauing seuentie sicles, according to the weight of the Sanctuarie, both ful of flowre tempered with oile for a sacrifice:

20   a litle morter of gold hauing ten sicles ful of incense:

21   an oxe out of the heard, and a ramme, and a lambe of a yeare old for an holocaust:

22   and a bucke goate for sinne:

23   and for a sacrifice of pacifiques, two oxen, fiue rammes, fiue bucke goates fiue lambes of a yeare old. this was the oblation of Nathanael the sonne of Suar.

24   The third day the prince of the sonnes of Zabulon Eliab the sonne of Helon,

25   offered a plate of siluer weighing an hundred thirtie sicles, a phial of siluer hauing seuentie sicles after the weight of the Sanctuarie, both ful of flower tempered with oyle for a sacrifice:

26   a litle morter of gold weighing ten sicles ful of incense:

27   an oxe out of the heard, and a ramme, and a lambe of a yeare old for an holocaust:

28   and a bucke-goate for sinne,

29   and for a sacrifice of pacifiques, two oxen, fiue rammes, fiue bucke goates, fiue lambes of a yeare old. this is the oblation of Eliab the sonne of Helon.

30   The fourth day the prince of the sonnes of Ruben, Elisur the sonne of Sedeur,

31   offered a plate of siluer weighing an hundred thirtie sicles, a phial of siluer hauing seuentie sicles after the weight of the Sanctuarie, both ful of flower tempered with oile for a sacrifice:

32   a litle morter of gold weighing ten sicles ful of incense:

33   an oxe out of the heard, and a ramme, and a lambe of a yeare old, for an holocaust:

34   and a bucke goate for sinne:

35   and for pacifiques hostes two oxen, fiue rammes, fiue bucke goates, fiue lambes of a yeare old. this was the oblation of Elisur the sonne of Sedeur.

36   The fifth day the prince of the sonnes of Simeon Salamiel the sonne of Surisaddai.

37   offered a plate of siluer weighing an hundred thirtie sicles, a phial a filuer hauing feuentie sicles after the weight of the Sanctuarie, both ful of flowre tempered with oile for a sacrifice:

38   a litle morter of gold weighing ten sicles ful of incense:

39   an oxe out of the heard, and a ramme, and a lambe of a yeare old for an holocauste:

40   and a bucke goate for sinne:

41   and for pacifique hostes, two oxen, fiue rammes, fiue bucke goates, fiue lambes of a yeare old. this was the oblation of Salamiel the sonne of Surisaddai.

The Princes offerings.

42   The sixt day the prince of the sonnes of Gad, Eliasaph the sonne of Duel

43   offered a plate of siluer weighing a hundred thirtie sicles, a phial of siluer hauing seuentie sicles after the weight of the Sanctuarie, both ful of flowre tempered with oyle for a sacrifice:

44   a litle morter of gold weighing ten sicles ful of incense:

45   an oxe out of the heard, and a ramme, & a lambe of a yeare old for an holocaust:

46   and a bucke goate for sinne:

47   and for pacifique hostes, two oxen, fiue rammes, fiue bucke goates, fiue lambes of a yeare old. this was the oblation of Eliasaph the sonne of Duel.

48   The seuenth day the prince of the sonnes of Ephraim, Elisama the sonne of Ammiud

49   offered a plate of siluer weighing a hundred thirtie sicles, a phial of siluer hauing seuentie sicles after the weight of the Sanctuarie, both ful of flowre tempered with oile for a sacrifice:

50   a litle morter of gold weighing ten sicles ful of incense:

51   an oxe out of the heard, and a ramme, and a lambe of a yeare old for an holocaust:

52   and a bucke goate for sinne:

53   and for pacifique hostes, two oxen, fiue rammes, fiue bucke goates, fiue lambes of a yeare old. this was the oblation of Elisama the sonne of Ammiud.

54   The eight day the prince of the sonnes of Manasses, Gamaliel the sonne of Phadassur,

55   offered a plate of siluer weighing an hundred thirtie sicles, a phial of siluer hauing seuentie sicles after the weight of the Sanctuarie, both ful of flowre tempered with oile for a sacrifice:

56   a litle morter of gold weighing tens sicles, ful of incense:

57   an oxe out of the heard, and a ramme, and a lambe of a yeare old for an holocaust:

58   and a bucke goate for sinne:

59   and for pacifique hostes, two oxen, fiue rammes, fiue bucke goates, fiue lambes of a yeare old. this was the oblation of Gamaliel the sonne of Phadassur.

60   The ninth day the prince of the sonnes of Beniamin, Abidan the sonne of Gedeon,

61   offered a plate of siluer weighing an hundred thirtie sicles, a phial of siluer hauing seuentie sicles after the weight of the sanctuarie, both ful of flower tempered with oile for a sacrifice:

62   a litle morter of gold weighing ten sicles ful of incense:

63   an oxe out of the heard, and a ramme, and a lambe of a yeare old for an holocaust:

64   and a bucke goate for sinne:

65   and for pacifique hostes, two oxen, fiue rames, fiue bucke goates, fiue lambes of a yeare old. this was the oblation of Abidan the sonne of Gedeon.

66   The tenth

The Princes offerings. day the prince of the sonnes of Dan, Ahiezer the sonne of Ammisaddai

67   offered a plate of siluer weighing an hundred thirtie sicles, a phial of siluer hauing seuentie sicles, after the weight of the Sanctuarie, both ful of flowre tempered with oile for a sacrifice:

68   a litle morter of gold weighing ten sicles ful of incense:

69   an oxe out of the heard, and a ramme, and a lambe of a yeare old for an holocaust:

70   and a bucke goate for sinne:

71   and for pacifique hostes, two oxen, fiue rammes, fiue bucke goates, fiue lambes of a yeare old. this was the oblation of Ahiezer the sonne of Ammisaddai.

72   The eleuenth day the prince of the sonnes of Aser, Phegiel the sonne of Ochran

73   offered a plate of siluer weighing an hundred thirtie sicles, a phial of siluer hauing seuentie sicles after the weight of the Sanctuarie, both ful of flowre tempered with oile for a sacrifice:

74   a litle morter of gold weighing ten sicles ful of incense:

75   an oxe out of the heard, and a ramme, and a lambe of a yeare old for an holocaust:

76   and a bucke goate for sinne:

77   and for pacifique hostes, two oxen, fiue rammes, fiue bucke goates, fiue lambes of a yeare old. this was the oblation of Phegiel the sonne of Ochran.

78   The twelfth day the prince of the sonnes of Nephthali, Ahira the sonne of Enan

79   offered a plate of siluer weighing an hundred thirtie sicles, a phial of siluer hauing seuentie sicles after the weight of the Sanctuarie, both ful of flowre tempered with oile for a sacrifice:

80   a litle morter of gold weighing ten sicles, ful of incense:

81   an oxe out of the heard, and a ramme, and a lambe of a yeare old for an holocaust:

82   and a bucke goate for sinne:

83   and for pacifique hostes, two oxen, fiue rammes, fiue bucke goates, fiue lambes of a yeare old. this was the oblation of Ahira the sonne of Enan.

84   These thinges were offered of the princes of Israel in the dedication of the altar, in the day wherin it was consecrated, plates of siluer twelue: phials of siluer twelue: litle morters of gold twelue:

85   so that one plate had an hundred and thirtie sicles of siluer, and one phial had seuentie sicles: that is, in the whole of al the vessel of siluer two thousand foure hundred sicles, by the weight of the Sanctuarie.

86   litle morters of gold twelue ful of incense weighing ten sicles a peece, by the weight of the Sanctuarie: that is, in the whole an hundred twentie sicles of gold:

87   oxen out of the heard for an holocaust twelue, rammes twelue, lambes of a yeare old twelue,

Ordination of the Leuites. and their libamentes: twelue bucke goates for sinne.

88   For pacifique hostes, oxen twentie fowre, rammes sixtie, bucke goates sixtie, lambes of a yeare old sixtie. These thinges were offered in the dedication of the altar, when it was anointed.

89   And when Moyses entred into the tabernacle of couenant, to consult the oracle, he heard the voice of him that spake to him from the propitiatorie, that was ouer the arke betwen he two Cherubs, from whence also he spake to him.

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