TSK · Numbers 7:1

God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he ceased all the work that he had been doing in creation.

Every day you are to prepare a bull for a purification offering for atonement. You are to purify the altar by making atonement for it, and you are to anoint it to set it apart as holy.

So you are to sanctify them, and they will be most holy; anything that touches them will be holy.

You must also anoint the large basin and its pedestal, and you are to sanctify it.

Anointing the Tabernacle and Aaron, and Clothing Aaron’s Sons Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and everything in it, and so consecrated them.

Summary This was the dedication for the altar from the leaders of Israel, when it was anointed: twelve silver platters, twelve silver sprinkling bowls, and twelve gold pans.

“Speak to the Israelites, and receive from them a staff from each tribe, one from every tribal leader, twelve staffs; you must write each man’s name on his staff.

You are blind! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?