Numbers 7: On the First Day

This chapter has a very practical use in helping us to understand the language of a much more famous chapter: Genesis 1. The references to “first day” (verse 12) through the “twelfth day” (verse 78) illustrate the fact that when the Old Testament uses a numeral such as “first” before the word “day,” it is always speaking of twenty-four hour days! So, in addition to the actual instructions for these twelve days of offerings, Moses’ words help us to know how to view the historically accurate account of the first week of earth’s history.