Numbers 7:1

on the day that If this is understood strictly, it is the date given in Exodus 40:17, and is one month earlierthan the date of Numbers 1:1. But the following verse (-them that were numbered") presupposes the census and the appointment of the tribal chiefs which occurred afterthe erection of the Tabernacle. Either the writer of this chapter was later than the writer of ch. 1, and failed to notice the discrepancy, or -on the day that" must be understood loosely to mean -at the time when" -after." Cf. Numbers 7:84 (-in the day when it was anointed") with Numbers 7:88 (-after that it was anointed").

The anointing of the Tabernacle and the Altar was commanded in Exodus 40:9 f.