Numbers 7:43
His offering was one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, a 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: His offering was one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, a 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 offering is that of one tribal leader, made up of a silver charger of one hundred and thirty shekels in weight and a silver bowl of seventy shekels. Both vessels were full of fine flour mingled with oil for a grain offering. They were weighed after the shekel of the sanctuary, showing that the tabernacle's own standard of weight was used for these offerings.
The sanctuary named here is the tabernacle erected by Moses in the wilderness of Sinai fourteen hundred and ninety years before Christ, containing the ark of the covenant, the mercy-seat, and the glorious Shekinah, which formed the heart and center of Israel's religious worship under the typical system. It was God's dwelling-place where His service was performed during the forty years of wandering, made to be taken down and carried by the consecrated Levites wherever the Divine Presence in the cloud by day and pillar of fire by night directed the camp to pitch. This verse is one of fifty-six times the tabernacle of that period is called the sanctuary.