Numbers 7:43

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

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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 ἐλαίῳ 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 specific weights and contents of the silver vessels offered by one of the tribal leaders during the dedication of the tabernacle. It specifies a silver dish and a silver bowl, their respective weights in sanctuary shekels, and states that both were filled with fine flour mixed with oil, designated as a grain offering.

Key words

korbano ("his offering", H7133A) — construct noun + 3ms suffix, opening the verse by identifying whose gift is being itemized.
ka'arat ("dish of", H7086) — construct form linking the vessel directly to the material that follows, kesef ("silver", H3701G), producing "a dish of silver."
mishqalah ("its weight", H4948) — construct noun with 3fs suffix, referring back to the dish (grammatically feminine) and introducing the numeral that gives its mass.
shenehem ("both of them", H8147 + H9028) — dual numeral with pronominal suffix, grammatically binding the dish and the bowl together as a single counted pair before the adjective me'lim ("full", H4392) is applied to both.
belulah ("mixed", H1101A) — Qal passive participle, feminine singular, agreeing with solet ("fine flour", H5560); it describes the flour as having undergone the mixing, not as performing it.

What the text says

The sentence is built almost entirely through construct chains rather than finite verbs: qorbano → qa'arat-kesef → mishqalah, and later mizraq → 'echad → kesef. This chaining style is typical of inventory lists, where nouns are strung together in possessive relationships instead of full clauses with subjects and predicates. The numerals sheloshim u-me'ah ("thirty and a hundred", H7970 + H3967) appear in the order "thirty and hundred," meaning the smaller number precedes the larger — a common Hebrew numeral pattern that differs from the ascending order used in most modern language renderings ("one hundred and thirty").

The phrase be-sheqel ha-qodesh ("by the shekel of the holy place", H9003 + H8255 + H9009 + H6944G) specifies the standard of weight used, marking this as an official cultic measurement rather than an ordinary commercial one. The participle belulah places the flour in a passive role — it "has been mixed" with oil — describing the finished state of the grain offering rather than an action performed at the moment of the verse.

Differences between versions

The Hebrew numeral order sheloshim u-me'ah ("thirty and hundred") is preserved literally in the LXX (τριάκοντα καὶ ἑκατὸν), but the Vulgate reverses it to centum triginta ("hundred thirty"), following normal Latin numeral sequencing rather than the Hebrew word order. Additionally, the Vulgate renders qa'arat ("dish", H7086) as acetabulum, a small vessel term, while the LXX uses τρύβλιον ("platter/dish"), both differing slightly in the type of vessel implied compared to the general Hebrew term for "dish."

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