Numbers 4:10

וְנָתְנוּ אֹתָהּ וְאֶת־כָּל־כֵּלֶיהָ אֶל־מִכְסֵה עוֹר תָּחַשׁ וְנָתְנוּ עַל־הַמּֽוֹט׃

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Hebrew

וְנָתְנ֤וּ אֹתָהּ֙ וְאֶת־כָּל־כֵּלֶ֔יהָ אֶל־מִכְסֵ֖ה ע֣וֹר תָּ֑חַשׁ וְנָתְנ֖וּ עַל־הַמּֽוֹט׃

Greek (Septuagint)

καὶ ἐμβαλοῦσιν αὐτὴν καὶ πάντα τὰ σκεύη αὐτῆς εἰς κάλυμμα δερμάτινον ὑακίνθινον, καὶ ἐπιθήσουσιν αὐτὴν ἐπ’ ἀναφορέων.

Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0

Latin (Vulgate)

et super omnia ponent operimentum janthinarum pellium, et inducent vectes.

Spanish

Lo pondrán, junto con todos sus utensilios, dentro de una cubierta de piel de tejón, y lo colocarán sobre unas parihuelas.

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

Y lo pondrán con todos sus vasos en una cubierta de pieles de tejones, y lo colocarán sobre unas parihuelas.

English

Then they shall wrap it and all its utensils inside a covering of fine leather and put it on the carrying frame.

✦ What the text says

Summary

Numbers 4:10 describes how, after wrapping an object (referred to grammatically as "her") together with its utensils, it is placed inside a covering made of tachash skin, and then set upon a carrying frame for transport. The verse continues the sequence of Levitical instructions for transporting tabernacle furnishings.

Key words

na.te.Nu ("they will put", H5414) — qal sequential perfect, third person plural; appears twice in the verse, each time advancing the narrative sequence of actions performed by the priests.
mikh.Seh ("a covering of", H4372) — masculine singular noun in construct state, meaning it must be linked to the following noun (or) to form "a covering of skin."
Ta.chash ("dolphin", H8476) — masculine singular noun identifying the type of animal skin; the gloss given here ("dolphin") reflects one possible rendering of a term whose precise referent is debated.
Mot ("carrying frame", H4132) — masculine singular noun with definite article, naming the pole or frame used to transport the wrapped object.
'o.Ta + hּ ("it/her", H0853 + H9034) — the direct object marker with a feminine pronominal suffix, showing that the object being wrapped is grammatically feminine in Hebrew, though English typically renders it as "it."

What the text says

The Hebrew sentence is built as a chain of two sequential perfect verbs, both na.te.Nu ("they will put/placed", H5414H), joined by the narrative ve ("and", H9001). This construction indicates a fixed order of ritual actions: first the object and "all its articles" (kol keley-ha, H3605 + H3627) are placed into the tachash-skin covering, then that wrapped bundle is placed upon the mot ("carrying frame", H4132). The feminine pronominal suffixes on 'otah ("it/her") and keley-ha ("its articles") show that the item being described is grammatically feminine, consistent with references elsewhere in the chapter to tabernacle furnishings using feminine nouns.

The construct chain mikhseh or tachash ("a covering of skin of tachash") stacks three nouns in sequence, each modifying the next, a common Hebrew way of building compound descriptions without adjectives.

Differences between versions

The Septuagint (LXX) adds the qualifier ὑακίνθινον ("hyacinth-colored") to the skin covering, a color term absent from the Hebrew text, which specifies only or tachash ("skin of tachash", H5785 + H8476) without any color designation. The Vulgate's "ianthinarum pellium" ("violet-colored skins") similarly introduces a color not present in the Hebrew. The Spanish RV1909 renders tachash as "tejones" ("badgers"), while the English BSB renders the same covering more generally as "fine leather" — both reflecting different interpretive choices for the uncertain term Ta.chash (H8476).

This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.