I am using the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.

Today, I am reading and commenting on  Numbers 7.

I am not sure if I am correct, but it seems to me that in today’s passage we see Ephraim and Manasseh counted so as to make the number of tribes equal twelve without counting the tribe of Levi.  To me this is a foreshadowing of Jesus and His Twelve Apostles.  I find it interesting that we have this symbolism in the Torah 12 +1.  I did an Internet search (DuckDuckGo, not Google) for the Jewish understanding of the meaning and found a lot of articles which spoke of the fact that the number of Tribes was always 12, either Levi was counted and Ephraim and Manasseh were counted as part of the tribe of Joseph, or Ephraim and Manasseh were counted as two tribes and Levi was not counted.  However, as a Christian, I cannot help but see a parallel between the Tribe of Levi and the other 12 Tribes with Jesus and His Twelve Apostles.