Exodus 29:40

Summary

Exodus 29:40 specifies the accompanying offerings for one of the daily lambs: a measured portion of fine flour mixed with pressed olive oil, and a matching portion of wine poured out as a libation. The verse defines exact fractional quantities using the unit called the hin.

Key words

• 'issaron ("a tenth of", H6241) — construct-state noun, "a tenth of X"; the noun it is "tenth of" is not stated in this verse itself, only implied.
• balul ("mixed", H1101A) — qal passive participle, masculine singular; describes the flour as having been mixed (with oil), passive in form since the flour undergoes the mixing rather than performing it.
• katit ("pressed", H3795) — construct form modifying shemen ("oil", H8081); qualifies the oil as extracted by pressing/beating.
• reva' ("the fourth part of", H7253) and revi'it ("the fourth of", H7243) — two different construct forms (masculine and feminine) both meaning "a fourth of," each governing ha-hin ("the hin", H1969), the standard liquid measure.
• nesekh ("a drink offering", H5262) — masculine singular absolute noun naming the wine portion as a poured libation, distinct from the flour-and-oil offering.

What the text says

The sentence is built almost entirely from construct chains: 'issaron solet ("a tenth of fine flour"), reva' ha-hin ("a fourth of the hin"), and revi'it ha-hin yayin ("a fourth of the hin, of wine"). Each construct links a fractional noun to the item or unit it measures, producing a dense string of measurement clauses rather than full independent sentences. The participle balul ("mixed") sits between solet ("fine flour") and be-shemen katit ("with pressed oil"), grammatically marking the flour as the item acted upon by the mixing, with the oil introduced via the preposition be- ("with", H9003).

The final phrase, la-kéves ha-echad ("for the one lamb"), anchors both offerings — flour-oil and wine — to a single lamb, using the definite article on kéves ("lamb", H3532) and the numeral 'echad ("one", H0259) to specify that this portion pertains to each individual lamb rather than the group.

Differences between versions

The Hebrew 'issaron ("a tenth of") does not itself name the base unit (e.g., an ephah); BSB and RV1909 supply "ephah" explicitly, which is an interpretive addition not present in the Hebrew wording of this verse. SBLIBRE goes further, converting the traditional units into metric equivalents ("dos kilos y medio," "un litro"), a rendering choice absent from the Hebrew, LXX, and Vulgate, which all preserve the hin-based fractional system. The Vulgate paraphrases the wine measure as "ejusdem mensuræ" ("of the same measure") rather than repeating "quartam partem hin," while the LXX and Hebrew both restate the fourth-of-a-hin measure explicitly for the wine.