Exodus 29:35
וְעָשִׂיתָ לְאַהֲרֹן וּלְבָנָיו כָּכָה כְּכֹל אֲשֶׁר־צִוִּיתִי אֹתָכָה שִׁבְעַת יָמִים תְּמַלֵּא יָדָֽם׃
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וְעָשִׂ֜יתָ לְאַהֲרֹ֤ן וּלְבָנָיו֙ כָּ֔כָה כְּכֹ֥ל אֲשֶׁר־צִוִּ֖יתִי אֹתָ֑כָה שִׁבְעַ֥ת יָמִ֖ים תְּמַלֵּ֥א יָדָֽם׃
καὶ ποιήσεις Ἀαρὼν καὶ τοῖς υἱοῖς αὐτοῦ οὕτως κατὰ πάντα ὅσα ἐνετειλάμην σοι · ἑπτὰ ἡμέρας τελειώσεις αὐτῶν τὰς χεῖρας.
Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0
Latin (Vulgate)
Omnia, quæ præcepi tibi, facies super Aaron et filiis ejus. Septem diebus consecrabis manus eorum:
“Haz todo esto con Aarón y con sus hijos, tal como te lo he ordenado. La ceremonia de consagración durará siete días.
Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)
Así pues harás á Aarón y á sus hijos, conforme á todas las cosas que yo te he mandado: por siete días los consagrarás.
This is what you are to do for Aaron and his sons based on all that I have commanded you, taking seven days to ordain them.
✦ What the text says
Summary
The verse closes a set of instructions by commanding Moses to act toward Aaron and his sons exactly as he was told, and specifies that the ordination process will span seven days, described idiomatically as "filling their hand."
Key words
- 'a.Si.ta ("you will do", H6213A) — qal sequential perfect, continuing the chain of prior commands as the next required action.
- tzi.Vi.ti ("I have commanded", H6680) — piel perfect, intensive stem marking this as a formal, completed act of command already given.
- shiv.'At ("seven", H7651) — construct form of the number, grammatically bound to yamim ("days") to form "seven of days."
- te.ma.Le' ("you will fill", H4390) — piel imperfect, denoting an ongoing or repeated action extending through the seven days.
- ya.Da ("hand", H3027R) — construct singular noun with the suffix -m ("their"), forming the idiom "fill their hand."
What the text says
The sentence opens with the narrative vav on ve'asita ("and you will do"), linking this instruction to the preceding sequence of commands. The verb is second-person masculine singular, addressed to Moses, and takes two indirect objects marked by le- ("to"): Aharon ("Aaron") and le-vanav ("to his sons"), the latter carrying the third-person suffix "his." The adverb kakhah ("thus") and the phrase ke-khol 'asher ("according to all that") tie the required action back to a prior standard, reinforced by tziviti ("I have commanded"), a piel perfect first-person verb with the object marker 'otakha ("you") attached via suffix, meaning "I have commanded you."
The second half of the verse shifts to a temporal clause built on the construct chain shiv'at yamim ("seven of days"), functioning adverbially to set the duration. The verb temalle' ("you will fill") is piel imperfect, indicating an action carried out or completed over that stretch of time. Its object, yadam ("their hand"), is a construct singular noun plus a third-person plural suffix — literally "the hand of them," an idiomatic expression rendered in the data simply as "fill their hand," referring to the process spanning seven days.
Differences between versions
The LXX renders tziviti ("I have commanded") with enetteilamēn soi ("I commanded you"), matching the Hebrew's first-person verb and object suffix. For the idiom temalle' yadam ("you will fill their hand"), the LXX uses teleiōseis autōn tas cheiras ("you will complete/perfect their hands"), and the Vulgate uses consecrabis manus eorum ("you will consecrate their hands"), both interpreting the Hebrew idiom rather than translating it literally as "filling."
This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.