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 * peace.
  Le 3:1-17  2Co 5:19-21 
 * this was the offering.
   It is worthy of remark, that the different tribes are
   represented here as bringing their offerings precisely in the
   same order in which they encamped about the tabernacle, (see
   ch. 2; 10;) beginning at the East, then proceeding to the
   South, then to the West, and ending with the North, according
   to the course of the sun.  Their order may be thus viewed:

                              East.
                      1.  Judah:  Nahshon.
                      2.  Issachar:  Nathaneel.
                      3.  Zebulun:  Eliab.

                             South.
                      4.  Reuben:  Elizur.
                      5.  Simeon:  Shelumiel.
                      6.  Gad:  Eliasaph.

                              West.
                      7.  Ephraim:  Elishama.
                      8.  Manasseh:  Gamaliel.
                      9.  Benjamin:  Abidan.

                             North.
                     10.  Dan:  Ahiezer.
                     11.  Asher:  Pagiel.
                     12.  Naphtali:  Ahira.

   Thus God evinces that he "is not the author of confusion, but
   of peace."  (1; Co 14:33.)  It is also worthy of remark, that
   every tribe offers the same kind of offering, and in the same
   quantity, to shew, that as every tribe was equally indebted
   to God for its support, so each should testify an equal sense
   of obligation.  Besides, the vessels were all sacrificial
   vessels, and the animals were all clean animals, such as were
   proper for sacrifices; and therefore everything was intended
   to point out, that the people were to be a holy people, fully
   dedicated to God, and that God was to dwell among them.
   Thus, as the priests, altar, etc. were anointed, and the
   tabernacle dedicated, so the people, by this offering, became
   consecrated to God.  Therefore every act here was a religious
   act.

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