Numbers 7:19
הִקְרִב אֶת־קָרְבָּנוֹ קַֽעֲרַת־כֶּסֶף אַחַת שְׁלֹשִׁים וּמֵאָה מִשְׁקָלָהּ מִזְרָק אֶחָד כֶּסֶף שִׁבְעִים שֶׁקֶל בְּשֶׁקֶל הַקֹּדֶשׁ שְׁנֵיהֶם׀ מְלֵאִים סֹלֶת בְּלוּלָה בַשֶּׁמֶן לְמִנְחָֽה׃
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הִקְרִ֨ב אֶת־קָרְבָּנ֜וֹ קַֽעֲרַת־כֶּ֣סֶף אַחַ֗ת שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים וּמֵאָה֮ מִשְׁקָלָהּ֒ מִזְרָ֤ק אֶחָד֙ כֶּ֔סֶף שִׁבְעִ֥ים שֶׁ֖קֶל בְּשֶׁ֣קֶל הַקֹּ֑דֶשׁ שְׁנֵיהֶ֣ם׀ מְלֵאִ֗ים סֹ֛לֶת בְּלוּלָ֥ה בַשֶּׁ֖מֶן לְמִנְחָֽה׃
καὶ προσήνεγκεν τὸ δῶρον αὐτοῦ τρύβλιον ἀργυροῦν ἕν, τριάκοντα καὶ ἑκατὸν ὁλκὴ αὐτοῦ, φιάλην μίαν ἀργυρᾶν, ἑβδομήκοντα σίκλων κατὰ τὸν σίκλον τὸν ἅγιον, ἀμφότερα πλήρη σεμιδάλεως ἀναπεποιημένης ἐν ἐλαίῳ εἰς θυσίαν·
Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0
Latin (Vulgate)
acetabulum argenteum appendens centum triginta siclos, phialam argenteam habentem septuaginta siclos, juxta pondus sanctuarii, utrumque plenum simila conspersa oleo in sacrificium:
Presentó por su ofrenda: una bandeja de plata, con un peso de ciento treinta siclos, un tazón de plata de setenta siclos, según el peso del santuario, ambos llenos de harina fina amasada con aceite para una ofrenda de grano;
Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)
Ofreció por su ofrenda un plato de plata de ciento y treinta siclos de peso, un jarro de plata de setenta siclos, al siclo del santuario; ambos llenos de flor de harina amasada con aceite para presente;
The offering he presented was one silver platter weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
✦ What the text says
Summary
The verse records the presentation of an offering (qorban) consisting of two silver vessels of specified weights, both filled with fine flour mixed with oil, designated as a grain offering (minchah). The verse gives the metrological detail of each vessel using the sanctuary shekel as the unit of reference.
Key words
- hikriv ("he brought near", H7126) — hiphil perfect, a causative form: the subject caused the offering to be brought/presented, rather than simply "coming near" himself.
- qorbano ("his offering", H7133A) — construct noun with a pronominal suffix, linking the offering directly to the person presenting it.
- qa'arat ("dish of", H7086) — construct form beginning a chain that specifies the material (kesef, "silver", H3701G) of the first vessel.
- mizraq ("bowl of", H4219) — a second, distinct vessel term, likewise placed in construct with "one" and "silver."
- beluláh ("mixed", H1101A) — qal passive participle, describing the flour (solet) as having already been mixed with oil, a completed state rather than an ongoing action.
What the text says
The sentence is built almost entirely on construct chains: qa'arat-kesef ("dish-of-silver"), mizraq... kesef ("bowl... of silver"), and sheqel haqodesh ("shekel of-the-holiness/sanctuary"). This chaining allows Hebrew to stack modifiers (material, number, weight standard) onto a single noun without additional connecting words, producing a dense technical description typical of inventory-style text.
The numeral for the first vessel's weight is expressed as shelishim u-me'ah ("thirty and hundred", H7970 + H3967), placing the smaller number before the larger one — an ordering pattern distinct from the more familiar "hundred and thirty." The dual form sheneihem ("both of them", H8147 with suffix H9028) grammatically ties the two previously named vessels together as a single referent for the following adjective meleim ("full", H4392), confirming both were filled with the same content.
Differences between versions
The Hebrew and the LXX preserve the same numeral order for the first vessel's weight — shelishim u-me'ah / τριάκοντα καὶ ἑκατὸν ("thirty and hundred") — while the Vulgate reverses it: centum triginta ("hundred thirty"). The value (130) is unaffected, but the word order differs.
The Hebrew uses two distinct vessel terms, qa'arat (H7086) and mizraq (H4219). The LXX renders these as τρύβλιον ("dish") and φιάλην ("bowl/vial"), and the Vulgate as acetabulum and phiala, maintaining the two-vessel distinction found in the Hebrew.
This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.