Exodus 29:41

Summary

The verse instructs that the second lamb be offered bein ha'arbayim ("between the evenings", H0996G/H6153), that is, at twilight, following the same pattern as the morning grain and drink offerings. The result is designated a reiach nichoach ("soothing odor", H7381/H5207), an isheh ("fire offering", H0801) to YHWH (H3068G).

Key words

• ta'aseh ("you will offer", H6213I) — qal imperfect, second person masculine singular, repeated twice in the verse (once for the lamb, once for the drink offering), indicating an ongoing or habitual future action directed at "you" (singular addressee, referring back to the instructions given to Aaron/priests in context).
• bein ha'arbayim ("between the evenings", H0996G + H6153) — a construct phrase using the dual form of 'arbayim ("evenings", H6153), marking a specific time span rather than a single moment.
• minchat ("grain offering of", H4503G) — construct form of the noun, linking it directly to haboqer ("the morning", H1242), establishing a comparison of quantity/type with the morning ritual.
• nischah ("its drink offering", H5262 + H9024) — construct noun with a feminine possessive suffix ("her/its"), referring back to the lamb (keves, H3532), which is grammatically treated with a feminine-referencing suffix here despite keves being masculine — the suffix agrees with the offering pattern established in the parallel morning verse.
• reiach nichoach ("odor of soothing", H7381 + H5207) — construct chain describing the effect or quality of the isheh ("fire offering", H0801).

What the text says

The Hebrew sentence structure places the direct object first — 'et hakeves hasheni ("the second lamb", H0853 + H3532 + H8145) — marked by the object marker 'et (H0853), before the verb ta'aseh ("you will offer", H6213I). This front-loading emphasizes which lamb is under discussion (the second, evening one) before stating the action. The time phrase bein ha'arbayim ("between the evenings", H6153) uses a dual noun form, a grammatical feature of Biblical Hebrew that marks two evenings or twilight period as a natural pair, rather than a single instant.

The comparison to the morning ritual is built through two parallel construct chains: ke-minchat haboqer ("like the grain offering of the morning", H4503G + H1242) and u-ke-nischah ("and like its drink offering", H5262), both governed by the preposition ke ("like", H9004). This grammatical parallelism signals that the evening offering replicates the morning one in kind and measure without restating the details.

The verb ta'aseh (H6213I) appears twice, both times in the qal imperfect — a form indicating incomplete or future/habitual action — reinforcing that this is a recurring instruction rather than a single event.

Differences between versions

The LXX renders isheh ("fire offering", H0801) as karpoma ("offering" — a general sacrificial term), and translates YHWH (H3068G) as kyriō ("to the Lord"), following its regular substitution practice. The Vulgate compresses the parallel construct phrases (ke-minchat haboqer, u-ke-nischah) into a single reference, "juxta ea quae diximus" ("according to what we have said"), rather than repeating the specific nouns minchah ("grain offering", H4503G) and nesekh ("drink offering", H5262) as the Hebrew does.