Deuteronomy 12:6

וַהֲבֵאתֶם שָׁמָּה עֹלֹֽתֵיכֶם וְזִבְחֵיכֶם וְאֵת מַעְשְׂרֹתֵיכֶם וְאֵת תְּרוּמַת יֶדְכֶם וְנִדְרֵיכֶם וְנִדְבֹתֵיכֶם וּבְכֹרֹת בְּקַרְכֶם וְצֹאנְכֶֽם׃

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Hebrew

וַהֲבֵאתֶ֣ם שָׁ֗מָּה עֹלֹֽתֵיכֶם֙ וְזִבְחֵיכֶ֔ם וְאֵת֙ מַעְשְׂרֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם וְאֵ֖ת תְּרוּמַ֣ת יֶדְכֶ֑ם וְנִדְרֵיכֶם֙ וְנִדְבֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם וּבְכֹרֹ֥ת בְּקַרְכֶ֖ם וְצֹאנְכֶֽם׃

Greek (Septuagint)

καὶ οἴσετε τὰ ὁλοκαυτώματα ὑμῶν, καὶ τὰς ὁμολογίας ὑμῶν, τὰ πρωτότοκα τῶν βοῶν ὑμῶν κα τῶν προβάτων ὑμῶν·

Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0

Latin (Vulgate)

et offeretis in loco illo holocausta et victimas vestras, decimas et primitias manuum vestrarum, et vota atque donaria, primogenita boum et ovium.

Spanish

Llevarán allí sus holocaustos, sus sacrificios, sus diezmos, la ofrenda mecida de su mano, sus votos, sus ofrendas voluntarias y los primogénitos de su ganado y de sus ovejas.

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

Y allí llevaréis vuestros holocaustos, y vuestros sacrificios, y vuestros diezmos, y la ofrenda elevada de vuestras manos, y vuestros votos, y vuestras ofrendas voluntarias, y los primerizos de vuestras vacas y de vuestras ovejas:

English

To that place you are to bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and heave offerings, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, as well as the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

✦ What the text says

Summary

Deuteronomy 12:6 instructs that at the designated place the people must bring seven categories of offerings and dues: burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, a contribution "of the hand," vows, freewill offerings, and the firstborn of herd and flock. The verse is a single sentence built on one main verb governing seven parallel objects.

Key words

havetem ("you will bring", H0935P) — hiphil (causative) form of "to come/bring," in the sequential perfect; it continues the narrative chain from the preceding verse and functions as the sole finite verb governing all seven objects that follow.
terumat ("[the] contribution of", H8641) — feminine singular construct; names a specific category distinct from zivchei ("sacrifices", H2077) or olotei ("burnt offerings", H5930A), linked to yed ("hand", H3027I) in the phrase "contribution of your hand."
'Et (, H0853) — appears before ma'seroteikhem ("your tithes") and before terumat yedkhem ("the contribution of your hand"), but not before the other five listed items; its uneven placement marks direct objects without adding meaning of its own.
bekhorot ("[the] firstborn of", H1060) — feminine plural construct closing the list, paired with bekar ("herd", H1241) and tzon ("flock", H6629G), each carrying the suffix khem ("your", H9026).
khem ("your", H9026) — the recurring second-person masculine plural suffix attached to every noun in the list, marking each offering as belonging to "you (plural)," i.e., the addressed community.

What the text says

The verse is structured as one verb, havetem, followed by a chain of seven construct-noun phrases joined by the conjunction ve ("and", H9002), each ending in the pronominal suffix khem. Grammatically, all seven nouns — olotekhem, zivcheikhem, ma'seroteikhem, terumat yedkhem, nidreikhem, nidvoteikhem, and bekhorot bekarkhem ve-tzonkhem — are the direct objects of the single causative verb "you will bring." The construct form ("X of...") used throughout means each noun is grammatically bound to what follows or to the suffix, producing phrases like "tithes-of-you" rather than a looser possessive construction.

The object marker 'Et (H0853) appears only twice, before ma'seroteikhem and before terumat yedkhem, while the other five items lack it. This does not change meaning but shows that Hebrew syntax does not require the marker on every object in a coordinated list — its presence or absence here is a stylistic feature of the sentence, not a semantic one. The phrase terumat yedkhem, literally "contribution of your hand," uses yed ("hand", H3027I) idiomatically to describe an offering associated with personal handling or presentation, distinguishing it from the other named categories such as vows (nidreikhem) or freewill gifts (nidvoteikhem).

Differences between versions

The Hebrew lists seven distinct categories. The Septuagint text given is shorter, naming only ὁλοκαυτώματα ("burnt offerings") and ὁμολογίας ("vows/agreements") before moving directly to "the firstborn of your oxen and sheep," omitting explicit renderings for sacrifices, tithes, the "contribution of the hand," and freewill offerings that appear in the Hebrew. The Vulgate renders terumat yedkhem ("contribution of your hand") as primitias manuum vestrarum ("firstfruits of your hands"), shifting the sense from a "contribution" (H8641) to "firstfruits," a different term from the Hebrew terumah.

This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.