Numbers 7:87

87 All the oxen for the burnt offering were twelve bullocks, the rams twelve, the lambs of the first year twelve, with their present; and the he goats for sin twelve.

Numbers 7:87 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 7:87

All the oxen for the burnt offering [were] twelve bullocks,
&c.] According to the number of the princes and their tribes, and so,

the rams twelve, the lambs of the first year twelve;
which were also for the burnt offering:

with their meat offering;
which always went along with the burnt offering:

and the kids of the goats, for a sin offering, twelve;
thus the twelve princes, and by them the twelve tribes, expressed their faith in Christ, the antitype of those sacrifices, and their hope of his coming into the world to be a sacrifice for sin, and of their atonement, reconciliation, peace, pardon, and salvation by him; see ( Acts 26:6 Acts 26:7 ) .

Numbers 7:87 In-Context

85 each charger of silver weighing one hundred and thirty shekels, each bowl seventy; all the silver of the vessels, two thousand four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.

86 The twelve golden spoons full of incense, ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of the spoons was one hundred and twenty shekels.

87 All the oxen for the burnt offering were twelve bullocks, the rams twelve, the lambs of the first year twelve, with their present; and the he goats for sin twelve.

88 And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace were twenty-four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he goats sixty, the lambs of the first year sixty. This was the dedication of the altar, after it was anointed.

89 And when Moses entered into the tabernacle of the testimony to speak with Him, then he heard the voice of the one speaking unto him from above the seat of reconciliation that was over the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim; and he spoke with him.