Numbers 7:85

שְׁלֹשִׁים וּמֵאָה הַקְּעָרָה הָֽאַחַת כֶּסֶף וְשִׁבְעִים הַמִּזְרָק הָאֶחָד כֹּל כֶּסֶף הַכֵּלִים אַלְפַּיִם וְאַרְבַּע־מֵאוֹת בְּשֶׁקֶל הַקֹּֽדֶשׁ׃

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✦ The same verse in five languages

Hebrew

שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים וּמֵאָ֗ה הַקְּעָרָ֤ה הָֽאַחַת֙ כֶּ֔סֶף וְשִׁבְעִ֖ים הַמִּזְרָ֣ק הָאֶחָ֑ד כֹּ֚ל כֶּ֣סֶף הַכֵּלִ֔ים אַלְפַּ֥יִם וְאַרְבַּע־מֵא֖וֹת בְּשֶׁ֥קֶל הַקֹּֽדֶשׁ׃

Greek (Septuagint)

τριάκοντα καὶ ἑκατὸν σίκλων τὸ τρύβλιον τὸ ἕν, καὶ ἑβδομήκοντα σίκλων ἡ φιάλη ἡ μία· πᾶν τὸ ἀργύριον τῶν σκευῶν δισχίλιοι καὶ τετρακόσιοι σίκλοι, ἐν τῷ σίκλῳ τῶν ἁγίων

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

Latin (Vulgate)

ita ut centum triginta siclos argenti haberet unum acetabulum, et septuaginta siclos haberet una phiala: id est, in commune vasorum omnium ex argento sicli duo millia quadringenti, pondere sanctuarii:

Spanish

cada bandeja de plata pesaba ciento treinta siclos, y cada tazón setenta; toda la plata de los utensilios pesaba dos mil cuatrocientos siclos, según el peso oficial del santuario;

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

Cada plato de ciento y treinta siclos, cada jarro de setenta: toda la plata de los vasos, dos mil y cuatrocientos siclos, al siclo del santuario.

English

Each silver platter weighed a hundred and thirty shekels, and each silver bowl seventy shekels. The total weight of the silver articles was two thousand four hundred shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.

✦ What the text says

Summary

This verse totals the silver weights of the vessels offered by each tribal leader in the tabernacle dedication: each dish weighed 130, each bowl 70, and the combined silver of all these vessels came to 2,400, measured according to the sanctuary standard.

Key words

Ke.sef ("silver", H3701) — appears twice: first as a predicate noun describing the material of "the one dish" (word 8), then in construct form Ke.sef ha.Kelim ("silver of the vessels", words 16–18), shifting from describing a single object to summing a category.
kol ("all", H3605) — construct noun functioning as "the totality of," introducing the summary clause that gathers the individual weights into one figure.
she.lo.Shim ("thirty", H7970) and me.'Ah ("hundred", H3967) — cardinal numbers joined by the conjunction u ("and", H9002) to form "one hundred and thirty," the weight assigned to each ke.'a.Rah ("dish", H7086).
she.kel ("shekel of", H8255) — construct noun linked to ha.Ko.desh ("the holy place / sanctuary", H6944), specifying the standard of weight used for the entire count, placed only at the end of the verse.
'al.Pa.yim ("two thousand", H0505) — dual/plural cardinal number marking the total sum, paired with 'ar.ba' me.'ot ("four hundred", H0702 + H3967) to produce 2,400.

What the text says

The Hebrew sentence is built as a sequence of numeral-plus-noun clauses without repeating the word "shekel" at each step. The first clause, she.lo.shim u.me'ah ha.qe'arah ha.'achat kesef ("thirty and a hundred, the dish, the one, silver"), states the weight and material of a single dish without explicitly naming the unit. The second clause repeats this pattern for the bowl (mizraq) with the number seventy. Only in the final clause does the text supply the unit of measure, be.sheqel ha.qodesh ("by the shekel of the holy place"), which retroactively governs the numbers given earlier in the verse. The construct chain kol kesef ha.kelim ("all the silver of the vessels") functions as a summary heading before the grand total of 2,400 is given.

Differences between versions

The LXX and the Vulgate both make explicit what the Hebrew leaves implicit: they insert "σίκλων" (shekels) and "siclos" respectively after the first two numbers (130 and 70), producing "hundred and thirty shekels" and "seventy shekels," whereas the Hebrew text states only the bare numbers and the noun kesef ("silver") until the final clause specifies the unit as the sanctuary shekel.

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