Neville Goddard on Numbers 7:66-71 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Numbers 7 in context

Scripture Focus

66On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the children of Dan, offered:

67His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:

68One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:

69One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:

70One kid of the goats for a sin offering:

71And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

Numbers 7:66-71

Biblical Context

On the tenth day, Ahiezer, prince of Dan, presents a structured set of offerings: vessels of silver, flour mixed with oil, incense, and a sequence of burnt, sin, and peace offerings. The passage reads as a ceremonial liturgy for worship.

Neville's Inner Vision

To the I AM within, Numbers 7:66-71 is not a ledger of animals but a map of states. Ahiezer stands for the inner ruler that governs the Dan of your heart, selecting offerings that nourish the temple of awareness. The silver charger and the bowl denote clear vessels of attention, the light and receptivity by which you receive impression and pour it into form. The fine flour mingled with oil is the living nourishment—imagination seasoned with feeling—that feeds your day-to-day life. The incense poured into the golden spoon is the rising prayer of the awakened self, carried as intention before the altar of your deeper I AM. The burnt offering signals the surrender of toil and ego to a higher order of consciousness; the sin offering is acknowledgment of misalignment and its correction by grace; and the peace offerings seal harmony between man and God within you. All these are the liturgy of your inner temple, a pattern you enact in imagination until your outer world bears witness to the inner harmony.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume the role of the inner priest; imagine placing the vessels on the altar, pouring flour mingled with oil, and lighting incense. Then feel the surrender of the old self and declare, I AM, and allow peace to manifest in your life.