Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 7:72
On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ocran, prince of the children of Asher, [offered]:
Verse 72. On the eleventh day] The Hebrew form of expression, here and in the 78th verse, has something curious in it. beyom ashtey asar yom, In the day, the first and tenth day; beyom sheneym asar yom, In the day, two and tenth day. But this is the idiom of the language, and to an original Hebrew our almost anomalous words eleventh and twelfth, by which we translate the original, would appear as strange as his, literally translated, would appear to us. In reckoning after twelve, it is easy to find out the composition of the words thirteen, as three and ten, fourteen, four and ten, and so on; but eleven and twelve bear scarcely any analogy to ten and one, and ten and two, which nevertheless they intend. But this is a subject of philology rather than of Biblical criticism.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ocran, prince of the children of Asher, [offered]. See Nu 1:13.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Verses 72-77:
On the eleventh day, Pagiel prince of Asher brought his offering. Asher was in the group of Dan, and was eleventh in line of march, Nu 2:27.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
eleventh day: Dr. Adam Clarke remarks, that the Hebrew form of expression here, and in Num 7:78, has something curious in it; beyom ashtey asar yom, “in the day, the first and tenth day;” beyom shenim asar yom, “in the day, two and tenth day.” But this is the idiom of the language; and to an original Hebrew, our almost anomalous words eleventh and twelfth, would appear as strange.
Pagiel: Num 1:13, Num 2:27
Reciprocal: Num 10:26 – Pagiel