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;
Parallel translations
- WEB and his offering was: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
- KJV 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:
- NKJV His offering was one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;
- NASB and his offering was one silver dish whose weight was 130 shekels, and one silver bowl of seventy shekels in sanctuary shekels, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;
- NLT His offering consisted of a silver platter weighing 3-1/4 pounds and a silver basin weighing 1-3/4 pounds (as measured by the weight of the sanctuary shekel). These were both filled with grain offerings of choice flour moistened with olive oil.
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Quick answer
Nahshon's gift includes a silver platter and bowl filled with fine flour and oil for a meal offering.
Overview
The substantial silver vessels, filled with grain offerings, expressed costly and wholehearted devotion. The identical gift repeated by each tribe (vv. 13-83) shows equal honor and shared commitment among all Israel. Such giving of one's best to God reflects worship that holds nothing back.
Cross-references & the web
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- Exod 30:13Everyone 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.
- Exod 37:16He 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.
- Exod 25:29You 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.
- Lev 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,
- Ezra 1:9–10This was the inventory: 30 gold dishes, 1,000 silver dishes, 29 silver utensils,
- Lev 27:25Every valuation will be according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
- Dan 5:2Under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar gave orders to bring in the gold and silver vessels that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king could drink from them, along with his nobles, his wives, and his concubines.
- 1 Kgs 7:45and 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.
- Num 3:47you are to collect five shekels for each one, according to the sanctuary shekel of twenty gerahs.
- 1 Kgs 7:43the ten stands; the ten basins on the stands;
- Jer 52:19The captain of the guard also took away the basins, censers, sprinkling bowls, pots, lampstands, pans, and drink offering bowls—anything made of pure gold or fine silver.
- Matt 14:11John’s head was brought in on a platter and presented to the girl, who carried it to her mother.
- Lev 27:3if 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.
- Ezra 8:25and I weighed out to them the contribution of silver and gold and the articles that the king, his counselors, his leaders, and all the Israelites there had offered for the house of our God.
- Zech 14:20On that day, HOLY TO THE LORD will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, and the cooking pots in the house of the LORD will be like the sprinkling bowls before the altar.
- 2 Kgs 25:14–15They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, dishes, and all the articles of bronze used in the temple service.
- Matt 14:8Prompted by her mother, she said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist.”
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