Numbers 7:14
in Numbers 7one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;
KJV
One spoon of ten shekels of gold, full of incense:
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This verse in Numbers 7
Commentary
4 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
The word rendered "spoon" means a hollow cup, in the shape of a hand, with which the priests on ordinary occasions might lift a quantity from the incense-box to throw on the altar-fire, or into the censers; but on the ceremonial on the day of the annual atonement no instrument was allowed but the high priest's own hands (Le 16:12).
This site's exposition
he that offered his offering the first day
on Numbers 7:12-17
The first day belongs to Judah, and the order of the twelve days is the order of the camp in Numbers 2 rather than the order of birth. Judah pitched on the east toward the rising of the sun, and Genesis 49:10 is where that precedence comes from. The offering is written out in full here, a silver charger, a silver bowl, a golden spoon of incense and the animals, and the same list is written out eleven more times.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
One spoon of ten shekels of gold, &c.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
One spoon - כף caph, a censer, on which they put the incense. See Exo 25:29. It is worthy of remark that the different tribes are represented here as bringing their offerings precisely in the same order in which they encamped about the tabernacle. See Numbers 2 and Numbers 10. Tribe Chief Verse Location 1. Judah Nahshon 12 2. Issachar Nethaneel 18 East 3. Zebulun Eliab 24 4. Reuben Elizur 30 5. Simeon Shelumiel 36 South 6. Gad Eliasaph 42 7. Ephraim Elishama 48 8. Manasseh Gamaliel 54 West 9. Benjamin Abidan 60 10. Dan Ahiezer 66
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
עשרה זהב — Understand this as the Targum does: there was in it (it contained) the weight of ten shekels of the Sanctuary.
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
The princes dedicated the altar with all the kinds of offerings that can be brought upon it. Therefore they brought a meal-offering, incense, a burnt-offering, a sin-offering, and a peace-offering.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כַּ֥ף | kaf | a pan | H3709 → | 192 times |
| אַחַ֛ת | ʾachat | one | H259 → | 971 times |
| עֲשָׂרָ֥ה | ʾasarah | ten | H6235 → | 176 times |
| זָהָ֖ב | zahav | gold | H2091 → | 389 times |
| מְלֵאָ֥ה | meleah | full | H4392 → | 64 times |
| קְטֹֽרֶת׃ | ketoret | incense | H7004 → | 60 times |
כַּ֥ףa pan
kafH3709 →192 times
אַחַ֛תone
ʾachatH259 →971 times
עֲשָׂרָ֥הten
ʾasarahH6235 →176 times
זָהָ֖בgold
zahavH2091 →389 times
מְלֵאָ֥הfull
meleahH4392 →64 times
קְטֹֽרֶת׃incense
ketoretH7004 →60 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Exodus 35:8olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;
it leads to
- Exodus 25:1–40
Then the LORD said to Moses,
- Exodus 30:23
“Take the finest spices: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, half that amount (250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels of fragrant cane,
- Exodus 27:20
And you are to command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.
- Exodus 30:28
the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the basin with its stand.
- Exodus 25:1–40
Through
Numbers 4:7Over the table of the Presence they are to spread a blue cloth and place the plates and cups on it, along with the bowls and pitchers for the drink offering. The regular bread…
it leads to
- Leviticus 24:5–8
You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf,
- Leviticus 24:5–8
Through
2 Chronicles 24:14When they were finished, they brought the rest of the money to the king and Jehoiada to make with it the articles for the house of the LORD—utensils for the service and for the…
it leads to
- 2 Kings 12:13–14
However, the money brought into the house of the LORD was not used for making silver basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, trumpets, or any articles of gold or silver for the house of the…
- Numbers 28:2–29
“Command the Israelites and say to them: See that you present to Me at its appointed time the food for My offerings by fire, as a pleasing aroma to Me.
- Proverbs 27:22
Though you grind a fool like grain with mortar and a pestle, yet his folly will not depart from him.
- 2 Kings 12:13–14
About Numbers
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.