Numbers 7:65
וּלְזֶבַח הַשְּׁלָמִים בָּקָר שְׁנַיִם אֵילִם חֲמִשָּׁה עַתֻּדִים חֲמִשָּׁה כְּבָשִׂים בְּנֵי־שָׁנָה חֲמִשָּׁה זֶה קָרְבַּן אֲבִידָן בֶּן־גִּדְעֹנִֽי׃ פ
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וּלְזֶ֣בַח הַשְּׁלָמִים֮ בָּקָ֣ר שְׁנַיִם֒ אֵילִ֤ם חֲמִשָּׁה֙ עַתֻּדִ֣ים חֲמִשָּׁ֔ה כְּבָשִׂ֥ים בְּנֵי־שָׁנָ֖ה חֲמִשָּׁ֑ה זֶ֛ה קָרְבַּ֥ן אֲבִידָ֖ן בֶּן־גִּדְעֹנִֽי׃ פ
καὶ εἰς θυσίαν ῥίου δαμάλεις δύο, κριοὺς πέντε, τράγους πέντε, ἀμνάδας ἐνιαυσίας πέντε· τοῦτο τὸ δῶρον Ἀβειδὰν υἱοῦ Γαδεωνεί.
Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0
Latin (Vulgate)
et in hostias pacificorum boves duos, arietes quinque, hircos quinque, agnos anniculos quinque. Hæc fuit oblatio Abidan filii Gedeonis.
y para el sacrificio de comunión, dos bueyes, cinco carneros, cinco machos cabríos y cinco corderos de un año. Esta fue la ofrenda de Abidán, hijo de Gideoni.
Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)
Y para sacrificio de paces, dos bueyes, cinco carneros, cinco machos de cabrío, cinco corderos de un año. Esta fué la ofrenda de Abidán, hijo de Gedeón.
and a peace offering of two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Abidan son of Gideoni.
✦ What the text says
Summary
The verse lists the animals Abidan son of Gideoni brought as his shelamim ("peace offerings", H8002): two oxen, five rams, five goats, and five year-old lambs. It closes with a formulaic statement identifying this as his specific offering.
Key words
- Ze.vach ("[the] sacrifice of", H2077) — construct-state noun linking the sacrifice to the category that follows, ha-shelamim.
- she.la.Mim ("peace offerings", H8002) — masculine plural noun, definite by the article ha (H9009), naming the category of sacrifice being detailed.
- she.na.Yim ("two", H8147) — dual cardinal number modifying ba.Kar ("ox[en]", H1241), indicating the quantity of oxen.
- cha.mi.Shah ("five", H2568) — repeated three times (for rams, goats, and lambs), each time as a common-gender singular cardinal, giving the count for each animal type.
- ka.re.Ban ("[was] [the] offering of", H7133A) — construct-state noun introducing the closing formula that attributes the whole list to Abidan.
What the text says
The Hebrew sentence is built as a list without verbs: nouns for each animal type are placed directly before or after their numeral, a common pattern in enumerative Biblical Hebrew. The phrase opens with u-le-zevach ha-shelamim ("and for the sacrifice of the peace offerings"), using the construct chain Ze.vach + ha.shelamim to specify the category of offering being itemized before the animals are counted.
Each animal — ba.Kar ("ox[en]", H1241), 'ei.Lim ("rams", H352A), 'a.tu.Dim ("goats", H6260), ke.va.Sim ("lambs", H3532) — is followed immediately by its numeral, rather than the numeral preceding the noun, a placement pattern visible throughout this list (numeral-after-noun for larger quantities like "two," and repeated after each type for "five"). The lambs are further specified as be.nei shanah ("sons of a year", H1121H + H8141), a construct phrase meaning yearling animals, indicating their age class rather than a literal parentage.
The verse ends with the demonstrative zeh ("this", H2088) plus the construct noun ka.re.Ban ("offering of", H7133A), forming the closing formula zeh korban Avidan ben-Gid'oni ("this is the offering of Abidan son of Gideoni"), which recurs throughout Numbers 7 to close each tribal leader's gift list.
Differences between versions
The LXX renders shelamim as θυσίαν ῥίου ("sacrifice of ... σωτηρίου" tradition, here abbreviated), a term for offerings tied to well-being/deliverance, while the Vulgate uses hostias pacificorum ("peace-offering victims"), both functioning as translations of the same Hebrew category without changing the animal counts or order, which remain consistent across Hebrew, LXX, and Vulgate.
This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.