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Numbers 7:1
英文原文
On the day that - i. e. "at the time that," compare Genesis 2:4. The presentation of the gifts in fact occupied twelve days, as the sequel shows.
The enactments set forth in the chapters from Leviticus 10 to Numbers 6 inclusive, were doubtless promulgated at various times between the consecration of the tabernacle and the departure from Sinai, but are for convenience set out connectedly. The contents of the present chapter are accordingly placed after them. The order pursued throughout is justly noted as one which would naturally suggest itself to a narrator who was contemporary with the events.
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Numbers 7:3
「篷子車」——有些人則偏好譯作「轎」（Isaiah 66:20）：即非裝有輪子、而是由前後兩頭牛抬行的輿轎。在所要經過的崎嶇地帶，這種運載工具大概比帶輪子的車更為便利。
英文原文
Covered wagons - Some prefer to render "litter Isaiah 66:20 wagons:" i. e. litters which were not on wheels, but borne by two oxen, one in front and one behind. Such conveyances would probably be more convenient than wheeled wagons in the rough country to be traversed.
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Numbers 7:7
革順子孫負責搬運帳幕的幔子和蓋罩，分得兩輛車；米拉利子孫負責看管帳幕那些堅實的部件，分得四輛車。至於器具和器皿，哥轄子孫則要親自用肩頭扛抬。對照 Numbers 3:25-26、Numbers 3:31、Numbers 3:36-37。
英文原文
To the Gershonites, who had to transport the hangings and coverings of the tabernacle, two wagons are assigned: to the Merarites, who had the charge of the solid parts of the tabernacle, four wagons. The furniture and vessels the Kohathites were to carry on their own shoulders. Compare Numbers 3:25-26, Numbers 3:31, Numbers 3:36-37.
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Numbers 7:12
眾首領按 Numbers 2 分派給各支派的次序獻上供物。這些禮物無疑是各支派自己藉著他們的首領呈獻的。十二份供物完全相同，並且分別在十二個不同的日子獻上。
英文原文
The several princes make their offerings in the order assigned to the tribes Numbers 2. It was doubtless the tribes themselves which presented these gifts through their chiefs. The twelve offerings are strictly alike, and were offered on twelve separate days.
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Numbers 7:84
全部祭物按重量計算的總值，約合英幣四百三十八鎊；但若按當時衣服與糧食的價格衡量，這一數額的實際價值必定遠大於此。
英文原文
The aggregate worth, by weight, of the whole of the offerings was about 438 British pounds: But the real worth of such a sum, when measured by the prices of clothing and food at that time, must have been vastly greater.
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Numbers 7:89
「與他」——即如旁註所記，意為「與神」，而不是（如某些人所說的）與他自己。
「聽見說話的聲音」——更宜譯作：他聽見那說話的、或交談的聲音。其效果猶如摩西被另一位格以可聞之聲向自己說話一般；這效果如何產生，經文並沒有告訴我們。
這樣，Exodus 25:20-22 的應許便得了成就；而且是神對眾支派以喜樂甘心之情獻上禮物、供給聖所及其事奉所需一切的即時回應。如今一切既照神所指定的完成了，營也從諸般污穢中得了潔淨，神便臨到那作百姓中保的摩西——不再像從前那樣在遙遠的西奈山頂，而是在他們中間，在那祂從此屈尊親自居住的居所裏。
英文原文
With him - i. e. as marginal, "with God," not (as some) with himself.
He heard the voice of one speaking - Rather, he heard the voice speaking, or conversing. The effect was as though Moses was audibly addressed by another person: how this effect was produced we are not told.
Thus was the promise of Exodus 25:20-22 fulfilled; and that as an immediate response on the part of God to the cheerful readiness with which the tribes had made their offerings, and supplied everything needful for the Holy place and its service. All being now complete as God had appointed, and the camp purified from defilements, God meets Moses the mediator of the people, not as before on the peak of Sinai far away, but in the midst of them, in the dwelling-place which He henceforth vouchsafed to tenant.
「那一天」——即「在那時候」之意(參 Genesis 2:4)。事實上,禮物的呈獻共佔了十二天,正如後文所示。
自 Leviticus 10 至 Numbers 6(包括在內)各章所載的條例,無疑是在會幕奉獻與離開西奈之間的不同時候頒布的;但為方便起見,乃一併連貫地陳述出來。本章的內容因此置於其後。全書通體所循的次序,公正地說,正是與這些事件同時代的敘事者自然會想到的次序。