So many offerings were brought to the Tabernacle! Burnt offerings, sin offerings, peace offerings. Silver platters, gold bowls, incense, choice flour, olive oil, rams, goats, lambs. What did they do with all of these things? Did someone get to eat them?
Reading this reminds me of the tribute that the cities conquered by the Aztec empire had to pay. Each city was responsible for bringing cloth, firewood, food, feathers, and beads. I also suppose it's not unlike the tax we pay now. Since they didn't have a monetary system (right?) back then, this was perhaps they're version of that.
I realize that what the conquered cities paid in tribute and what we pay in taxes is given to governments and leaders, but I'd say the same is true of Israel's offerings: since they were a theocracy, they presented their offering to their leader- God.
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