Exodus 29:14

Summary

The verse instructs that the flesh, hide, and offal of the bull be burned with fire outside the camp, and closes with a nominal statement identifying the animal as a chatat ("sin offering", H2403H). The three components to be burned are each marked separately before the single verb governing all of them appears.

Key words

• bĕsar ("flesh of", H1320) — construct form linking to hapar ("the young bull", H6499); it is the first of three objects fronted before the verb.
• tisrof ("you will burn", H8313) — qal imperfect, second person masculine singular; a single verb governs all three preceding objects (flesh, hide, offal).
• michuts ("from outside", H2351) — construct form combined with the preposition mi ("from", H9006), forming the spatial phrase "from outside of."
• lamachaneh ("to the camp", H4264) — preposition + article + noun, completing the locative phrase "outside the camp."
• chatat ("sin offering", H2403H) — feminine singular noun functioning as predicate in the closing nominal clause, paired with the pronoun hu ("it", H1931).

What the text says

The Hebrew sentence fronts three direct objects — bĕsar hapar ("the flesh of the bull"), oro ("its hide"), and pirsho ("its offal") — each introduced by the object marker 'et (H0853), before the verb tisrof ("you will burn") appears. This ordering places emphasis on what is to be burned before stating the action itself, a common feature of Biblical Hebrew syntax when multiple objects share one verb. The location is specified through a double preposition construction, michuts lamachaneh ("from outside to the camp"), meaning "outside the camp."

The verse ends with a short nominal clause, chatat hu ("sin offering, it [is]"), which lacks a verb "to be" in Hebrew, as is typical for equational statements. This construction directly identifies the referent (the bull previously described) with the noun chatat, without any causal or explanatory particle.

Differences between versions

The LXX renders the closing clause as ἁμαρτίας γάρ ἐστιν ("for it is a sin[-offering]"), inserting the causal particle γάρ ("for"), which has no equivalent in the Hebrew chatat hu. The Vulgate similarly expands the nominal clause into a causal explanation, eo quod pro peccato sit ("because it is for sin"), rather than the direct identification found in the Hebrew. Both versions thus add explanatory logic where the Hebrew simply states an equation between subject and predicate.