Neville Goddard on Numbers 7:72-77 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Numbers 7 in context

Scripture Focus

72On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ocran, prince of the children of Asher, offered:

73His 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:

74One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:

75One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:

76One kid of the goats for a sin offering:

77And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ocran.

Numbers 7:72-77

Biblical Context

The passage records Pagiel’s day 11 offerings to the Lord, listing silver vessels, flour with oil, incense, and several animals for burnt, sin, and peace offerings.

Neville's Inner Vision

Read as a map of consciousness, Numbers 7:72-77 shows not how to purchase favor from an external god, but how to assemble the inner conditions of worship. Pagiel’s silver charger and bowl symbolize a mind that is steady and receptive to the I AM, holding and distributing the life that nourishes thought. The flour mingled with oil stands for the sustaining energy of divine Presence enveloping every idea with holy support. The golden spoon of incense is the breath and prayer that rise into the temple of awareness, fragrant with gratitude. The burnt offering proclaims total surrender to the light you know as I AM, relinquishing attachment to separate selfhood. The sin offering invites honest revision—recognizing misalignment in thought and turning it toward truth. The peace offerings, with their multitude of animals, name an inner covenant of harmony, loyalty, and abundance that your consciousness can enter. Thus the day’s pattern becomes a practice: discipline of attention, a sequence of inner movements that culminate in a felt union with God within. Worship then is simply living as the I AM.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly and assume, 'I am the I AM, and all these offerings are mine to give to God within.' Visualize each item as an inner state—receptivity (charger), nourishment (flour/oil), prayer (incense), surrender (burnt), correction (sin), and harmony (peace)—then rest in a brief felt sense of covenant loyalty.