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Numbers 7:13
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;
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Study note
Setting — Nahshon son of Amminadab of Judah presents his tribal offering at the tabernacle altar on the first day of its dedication.
The words — וְקָרְבָּנוֹ (veqorbanô) = and his offering; מִזְרָק (mizraq) = a bowl or platter.
The thread — The sanctuary shekel standard mentioned here matches Exodus 30:13, while Exodus 25:29 and 37:16 describe gold vessels for the table, not silver tabernacle service items.
Why it lands — The text records a precise measurement of silver and a grain offering, requiring attention to the exact weight and contents prescribed for each tribal leader.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And his offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
Cross-references
- Exodus 30:13 Everyone who crosses over to those counted must pay a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the LORD.
- Exodus 25:29 You are also to make the plates and dishes, as well as the pitchers and bowls for pouring drink offerings. Make them out of pure gold.
- Exodus 37:16 He also made the utensils for the table out of pure gold: its plates and dishes, as well as its bowls and pitchers for pouring drink offerings.
- Leviticus 2:1 “When anyone brings a grain offering to the LORD, his offering must consist of fine flour. He is to pour olive oil on it, put frankincense on it,
- Leviticus 27:3 if the valuation concerns a male from twenty to sixty years of age, then your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel.
- Leviticus 27:25 Every valuation will be according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
- Numbers 3:47 you are to collect five shekels for each one, according to the sanctuary shekel of twenty gerahs.
- 1 Kings 7:43 the ten stands; the ten basins on the stands;
- 1 Kings 7:45 and the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. All the articles that Huram made for King Solomon in the house of the LORD were made of burnished bronze.
- 2 Kings 25:14 They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, dishes, and all the articles of bronze used in the temple service.