Numbers 7:19
He offered for his offering one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
The Sanctuary is the wilderness tabernacle erected by Moses in the wilderness of Sinai 1490 years before Christ as the building God claimed as His dwelling place where His service was performed. It contained the ark of the covenant, the mercy-seat, and the glorious Shekinah, and was the heart and center of Israel's religious worship under that typical system. It was constructed to be easily taken down and carried on their journeys wherever the Divine Presence accompanying them in a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night directed them to pitch their camp. It was borne with all its sacred vessels by the consecrated Levites during the forty years of wilderness journeying, during which time it is fifty-six times called the Sanctuary.
The phrase shekel of the sanctuary specifies the standard by which the weights of the silver charger and bowl in the offering were measured. The shekel of the sanctuary was thus the standard of weight in Israel. It was a just weight kept as a standard under the eye of the priest, just as the ephah was a just measure. As the eye of God, that standard goes forth to condemn all who practice fraud in weight and measure. It reaches thieves and false swearers, because those who steal and swear falsely always defraud in measure.