Chapter 7

The tabernacle is dedicated/anointed.  The chiefs of the tribes bring ox-drawn wagons, and other offerings.  Each chief gives his offering on a single day, and only one chief per day offers.  The offerings are listed in detail.  Even though each offering was essentially the very same as the one before it and after it, all are named, because all were of equal importance and meaning to God.  Though the same, each offering was holy because it was given to God, and as such, each is named in its own time, with its own details.  This is a long chapter, and very repetitive.

2026 - Twelve identical offerings, one from each tribe, yet each one listed out in the same exact level of detail.  Why was this necessary?

When it was all done, this:

89 And when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim; and it spoke to him. [Num 7:89 ESV].  Perhaps this was the first time God had spoken from an identifiable location, and this was right where he said he would be.