Numbers 7:1-4 And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it… — A wealthy European monarch has been fired with enthusiasm for Africa. When I visited King Leopold I asked him, "What makes you so earnest about Africa?" I was touched with his reply. He said, "You know God took away from me my son, my only son, and then He laid Africa upon my heart. I am not spending the revenue of Belgium on it, but my own private resources, and I have made arrangements that when I die this civilising and evangelising work in Africa shall still go on." At the present time the king is expending £80,000 a year in Africa out of his private purse. (Grattan Guinness.) Parallel Verses KJV: And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it, and all the instruments thereof, both the altar and all the vessels thereof, and had anointed them, and sanctified them; |
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