Numbers 7:79
His offering was 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: His offering was 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 offering is that of a leader of Israel, one silver charger weighing one hundred and thirty shekels and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, both full of fine flour mingled with oil for a grain offering. The phrase after the shekel of the sanctuary means the sanctuary was the standard of weight.
The verse calls the wilderness sanctuary the Sanctuary, identifying it with the sacred service carried by the Levites during Israel's journeys. That Sanctuary is the building Moses erected in the wilderness of Sinai 1490 years before Christ, and this is one of fifty-six times in that period it is so called. With its ark of the covenant, mercy-seat, and glorious Shekinah, it was the heart and center of Israel's religious worship under the typical system and the dwelling-place God claimed where His service was performed. It was made to be taken down and borne by the Levites and set up again wherever the Divine Presence in cloud by day and pillar of fire by night directed the camp to pitch during the forty years of wandering.