SEV Biblia, Chapter 7:3
y trajeron sus ofrendas delante del SEŃOR: seis carros cubiertos, y doce bueyes; por cada dos príncipes un carro, y cada uno un buey; lo cual ofrecieron delante del tabernįculo.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Numbers 7:3
Verse 3. Six covered wagons] bx tlg[ ¨¨ shesh egloth tsab, six tilted wagons, the Septuagint translate ex amaxav lamphnikav, with which the Coptic agrees; but what lampenic chariots were, no person pretends to know. Covered or tilted is probably the meaning of the original. The wagons were given for the more convenient exporting of the heavier parts of the tabernacle, which could not be conveniently carried on men's shoulders.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 3. And they brought their offering before the Lord , etc.] Before the tabernacle, as it is afterwards explained, where he had now taken up his habitation: six covered wagons, and twelve oxen ; according to the number of the twelve tribes, of which they were princes, two oxen for each wagon, which were to carry the tabernacle, and its vessels, from place to place; and which wagons were covered, not only to hide the things to be put into them from the sight of the people, being sacred, but to preserve them from the rain and dust, and the like; and no doubt, but as they were made of the best materials, So they were covered with rich coverings for the honour of the vessels put into them, being the presents of princes, and in which they joined, and could not be ordinary carriages. The word is rendered “litters” in ( Isaiah 66:20); and by some, “coaches”; the Targum of Jonathan is, “six wagons yoked,” or drawn with a yoke of oxen; and Aben Ezra says, it signifies a kind of oxen which drew wagons; but the Targum of Jonathan, Jarchi, and Ben Gersom interpret it “covered”, as we do: a wagon for two of the princes, and for each one an ox ; two princes joined in the present of one wagon, which shows it could not be a common wagon, but rich carriage, and ornamented, as the Targum of Jonathan adds; and each prince presented an ox, so that there was a yoke of them for each wagon: and they brought them before the tabernacle ; the Targum of Jonathan says, Moses would not receive them, and therefore they brought them before the tabernacle; and so, says Jarchi, Moses received them not at their hands, until it was declared to him by the mouth of the Lord what he should do, as follows.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-9 - The offering of the princes to the service of the tabernacle was no made till it was fully set up. Necessary observances must always tak place of free-will offerings. The more any are advanced, the greate opportunity they have of serving God and their generation. No soone was the tabernacle set up, than provision is made for the removal of it. Even when but just settled in the world, we must be preparing for changes and removes, especially for the great change.
Original Hebrew
ויביאו 935 את 853 קרבנם 7133 לפני 6440 יהוה 3068 שׁשׁ 8337 עגלת 5699 צב 6632 ושׁני 8147 עשׂר 6240 בקר 1241 עגלה 5699 על 5921 שׁני 8147 הנשׂאים 5387 ושׁור 7794 לאחד 259 ויקריבו 7126 אותם 853 לפני 6440 המשׁכן׃ 4908
