Numbers 7: Group Study Handout

How to use: read Numbers 7 aloud together, then take the questions in order. One page is enough for an evening.

Overview

Moses finished setting up the tabernacle and sanctified it along with its furniture and altar (vv. 1-5). The princes of Israel, who are the heads of their tribes, brought offerings.

Key verse

“and all the cattle for the sacrifice of peace offerings twenty-four bulls, the rams sixty, the male goats sixty, the male lambs a year old sixty. This was the dedication of the altar, after it was anointed.”
Numbers 7:88 (WEB)

Outline

Numbers 7:1–5 Setting Up the Tabernacle
Numbers 7:6–9 Offerings of the Leaders
Numbers 7:10–11 Altar Dedication Instructions
Numbers 7:12–84 Individual Offerings of the Tribes
Numbers 7:85–88 Summary of Offerings
Numbers 7:89 Moses Communicates with Yahweh

Discussion questions

In v6, what does Moses do with the wagons and oxen?
What offerings does Nahshon bring on the first day, as stated in vv. 12-17?
The instruction in v5: why does Yahweh tell Moses to accept the offerings?
In v89, what does Moses hear coming from above the mercy seat?
When have you participated in a communal offering or contribution, similar to the leaders in v10?

Go deeper

Passages that echo Numbers 7: Numbers 1, Numbers 2, Numbers 10.

Before next time: read Numbers 8.