Numbers 7:31

קָרְבָּנוֹ קַֽעֲרַת־כֶּסֶף אַחַת שְׁלֹשִׁים וּמֵאָה מִשְׁקָלָהּ מִזְרָק אֶחָד כֶּסֶף שִׁבְעִים שֶׁקֶל בְּשֶׁקֶל הַקֹּדֶשׁ שְׁנֵיהֶם׀ מְלֵאִים סֹלֶת בְּלוּלָה בַשֶּׁמֶן לְמִנְחָֽה׃

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✦ The same verse in five languages

Hebrew

קָרְבָּנ֞וֹ קַֽעֲרַת־כֶּ֣סֶף אַחַ֗ת שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים וּמֵאָה֮ מִשְׁקָלָהּ֒ מִזְרָ֤ק אֶחָד֙ כֶּ֔סֶף שִׁבְעִ֥ים שֶׁ֖קֶל בְּשֶׁ֣קֶל הַקֹּ֑דֶשׁ שְׁנֵיהֶ֣ם׀ מְלֵאִ֗ים סֹ֛לֶת בְּלוּלָ֥ה בַשֶּׁ֖מֶן לְמִנְחָֽה׃

Greek (Septuagint)

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 ἐλαίω εἰς θυσίαν·

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

Latin (Vulgate)

obtulit acetabulum argenteum appendens centum triginta siclos, phialam argenteam habentem septuaginta siclos, ad pondus sanctuarii, utrumque plenum simila conspersa oleo in sacrificum:

Spanish

presentó 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)

Y 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;

English

His offering 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

This verse records the offering brought by a tribal leader during the tabernacle dedication, listing two silver vessels — a dish and a bowl — with their exact weights in sanctuary shekels, both filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering.

Key words

ka.'a.rat- ("[was] a dish of", H7086) — feminine singular construct noun, linking directly to Kesef ("silver", H3701G) to form "a dish of silver."
mish.ka.La + h ("weight" + "its", H4948, H9024) — construct noun with a feminine pronominal suffix, meaning "its weight," referring back to the dish just named.
miz.Rak ("a bowl", H4219) — masculine singular construct noun, introducing the second vessel in parallel structure to the first.
she.nei.Hem ("both of them", H8147, H9028) — dual construct noun with masculine plural suffix, explicitly grouping the two previously named vessels together before describing their shared content.
be.lu.Lah ("mixed", H1101A) — Qal passive participle, feminine singular, agreeing with So.let ("fine flour", H5560) and describing the flour as having been mixed with oil, a completed state rather than an ongoing action.

What the text says

The Hebrew sentence is built as a list of construct chains rather than full independent clauses. ka.re.ba.N-o ("offering-his", H7133A + H9023) stands as the header noun, followed by two parallel noun phrases each identifying a vessel: ka.'a.rat-Kesef 'a.Chat ("a dish of silver, one," H7086, H3701G, H0259) and miz.Rak 'e.Chad Kesef ("a bowl, one, of silver," H4219, H0259, H3701G). Notably, the word order differs slightly between the two: for the dish, "silver" precedes the numeral "one" is embedded differently than for the bowl, where "one" appears before "silver" — a stylistic variation the Hebrew permits within construct chains but that translations typically normalize.

The weights are given as compound cardinal numbers: she.lo.Shim u.me.'Ah ("thirty and one hundred," H7970, H9002, H3967) for the dish, and shiv.'Im She.kel ("seventy shekel," H7657, H8255) for the bowl. Both are qualified by the phrase be.She.kel ha.Ko.desh ("by the shekel of the holy place," H9003, H8255, H9009, H6944G), establishing a specific standard of measurement. The dual construct she.nei.Hem ("both of them," H8147, H9028) syntactically unites the two vessels as a single referent for the following description: me.le.'Im So.let be.lu.Lah va.She.men le.min.Chah ("full, fine flour, mixed with oil, for a grain offering," H4392, H5560, H1101A, H8081, H4503G). The adjective me.le.'Im ("full," H4392) is plural, agreeing with the dual/plural subject "both of them," while be.lu.Lah ("mixed," H1101A) is a passive participle agreeing with the feminine singular So.let ("fine flour," H5560), indicating the flour's condition rather than an action performed at the moment of speech.

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