Numbers 7:13
And his offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
In this verse sanctuary denotes the building God claimed as his dwelling place where his service was performed. That sanctuary was the tabernacle erected by Moses in the wilderness of Sinai 1490 years before Christ, containing the ark of the covenant, the mercy seat, and the glorious Shekinah. It formed the heart and center of Israel's religious worship under that typical system. Because Israel was then in the period of wandering, the sanctuary was adapted to their condition to be taken down, carried, and erected wherever the divine presence in a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night directed them to pitch their camp. The Levites were consecrated to bear it and its sacred vessels when the camp set forward during the forty years.
The sanctuary shekel was the standard weight in Israel, and in this verse it gives the weight of the silver charger and bowl presented full of fine flour mingled with oil. That standard weight was kept under the priest's oversight. Like the ephah, this standard represents honest measures and condemns those who commit fraud in buying and selling.