Deuteronomy 15:14

Summary

The verse instructs that when a servant is released, the owner must provide him with liberal gifts drawn from three specific sources of household wealth: flock, threshing floor, and winepress. The giving is explicitly tied to the extent that Yehovah has blessed the owner.

Key words

• ha'aneiq ("certainly provide", H6059) — hiphil infinitive absolute, paired with the following verb to intensify the command; expresses certainty/emphasis rather than mere possibility.
• ta'anik ("you will provide", H6059) — hiphil imperfect, same root as above; together with the infinitive absolute this forms a doubled construction common in Biblical Hebrew for emphatic instruction.
• tzonekha ("your flock", H6629) — noun in construct form with pronominal suffix, marking the first of three sources of goods.
• berakhekha ("he has blessed you", H1288) — piel perfect, describing a completed divine action that grammatically precedes and grounds the command to give.
• titten ("you will give", H5414) — qal imperfect, a different verbal root from the opening verb, closing the sentence with a second, distinct verb of giving.

What the text says

The sentence opens with a hiphil infinitive absolute, ha'aneiq (H6059), followed immediately by the finite hiphil imperfect ta'anik (H6059) — a grammatical doubling that Biblical Hebrew uses to intensify or make emphatic the command. This construction has no single-word English equivalent; translators render it as "abastecerás liberalmente" or "furnish him liberally," but the Hebrew grammar itself signals emphasis through repetition of the same root rather than through an added adverb.

The three sources of provision — tzonekha ("your flock," H6629), gornekha ("your threshing floor," H1637), and yiqvekha ("your wine-press," H3342) — are all nouns in construct state bound to the second-person pronominal suffix kha ("your"), each introduced by the preposition min ("from," H9006). This produces a parallel triad: "from your X, and from your Y, and from your Z."

The relative clause asher berakhekha Yehovah Eloheikha ("which Yehovah your God has blessed you") uses a piel perfect verb, berakh (H1288), placed before its subject Yehovah — a verb-subject order typical of Hebrew narrative and legal clauses. The completed aspect of the perfect indicates that the blessing is presented as an accomplished condition preceding the command to give.

Notably, the sentence frames its content with two different verbs of giving: it opens with ha'aneiq/ta'anik (H6059, "to provide/supply") and closes with titten (H5414, "to give"), the ordinary verb "to give." The three sources of goods sit between these two verbs, both of which take the same object, lo ("to him," H9033).

Differences between versions

The LXX mirrors the Hebrew's doubled-root emphatic structure with its own cognate pair, ephodion ephodiaseis ("supply-provision you shall supply"), and likewise closes with a distinct verb, dōseis ("you shall give"), preserving the two-verb framing of the Hebrew. The Vulgate, by contrast, collapses this structure into a single main verb, "dabis viaticum" ("you shall give provisions"), rendering the noun viaticum where the Hebrew and LXX use a verbal intensifier, and it does not repeat a second giving-verb at the close of the sentence as the Hebrew and LXX do.