Exodus 29:6
וְשַׂמְתָּ הַמִּצְנֶפֶת עַל־רֹאשׁוֹ וְנָתַתָּ אֶת־נֵזֶר הַקֹּדֶשׁ עַל־הַמִּצְנָֽפֶת׃
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וְשַׂמְתָּ֥ הַמִּצְנֶ֖פֶת עַל־רֹאשׁ֑וֹ וְנָתַתָּ֛ אֶת־נֵ֥זֶר הַקֹּ֖דֶשׁ עַל־הַמִּצְנָֽפֶת׃
καὶ θήσεις τὴν μίτραν ἐπὶ τὴν κἠν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐπιθήσεις τὸ πέταλον τὸ ἁγίασμα ἐπὶ τὴν μίτραν.
Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0
Latin (Vulgate)
Et pones tiaram in capite ejus, et laminam sanctam super tiaram,
Le pondrás el turbante en la cabeza, y sobre el turbante colocarás la placa sagrada.
Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)
Y pondrás la mitra sobre su cabeza, y sobre la mitra pondrás la diadema santa.
Put the turban on his head and attach the holy diadem to the turban.
✦ What the text says
Summary
The verse instructs placing the mitznefet ("turban", H4701) on the head of the person being addressed (Aaron, contextually), and then placing the nezer haqodesh ("crown/diadem of holiness", H5145H + H6944G) on top of that turban. The two actions are sequenced with successive verb forms describing a ritual dressing procedure.
Key words
- sam.Ta ("you will put", H7760A) — qal sequential perfect, second person masculine singular; continues a chain of instructions begun earlier in the passage, functioning like an imperative in this legal/procedural register.
- mitz.Ne.fet ("turban", H4701) — feminine singular noun with definite article, naming the headwear item; appears twice in the verse (once anarthrous-looking but marked definite via ha, once again with the article at the end).
- ro.Sh ("head", H7218A) — masculine singular noun in construct state, meaning "head of," bound to the following suffix.
- o ("his", H9023) — pronominal suffix attached to ro.Sh, producing "his head."
- Ne.zer ("crown of", H5145H) — masculine singular noun in construct state, linked to Ko.desh ("holiness", H6944G) to form the phrase "crown of holiness."
What the text says
The Hebrew sentence is built from two parallel clauses joined by the narrative vav (H9001), each opening with a sequential perfect verb (sam.Ta, na.ta.Ta) that carries the sense of successive commanded actions: "and you will put... and you will put/give..." Both verbs share the same root sense of placing or setting an object, though the second (na.ta.Ta, from H5414H) is a distinct lexeme from the first (sam.Ta, from H7760A), even though both are glossed "you will put" in this word list.
The first clause places the mitznefet "upon the head of him" ('al-rosho), using the construct noun rosh with the third-person suffix -o ("his"). The second clause introduces the object marker 'et (H0853, untranslated) before the construct phrase nezer haqodesh, "crown of holiness," which is then placed "upon the turban" ('al-hamitznafet). The construct chain nezer... qodesh binds the two nouns tightly, so that "holiness" functions as a qualifying genitive of "crown," rather than as an independent adjective.
The repetition of mitznefet at both the start and end of the verse creates a structural frame: the turban is first positioned on the head, then serves as the base onto which the second sacred item is set.
Differences between versions
The LXX renders nezer haqodesh as τὸ πέταλον τὸ ἁγίασμα ("the plate/petal, the sanctified thing"), using a different image (a metal plate) than the Hebrew's "crown" (nezer). The Vulgate similarly uses "lamina sanctam" ("holy plate/blade"), diverging from the Hebrew nezer ("crown/diadem") toward a flat-object translation. Modern versions (RV1909 "diadema santa," BSB "holy diadem," SBLIBRE "placa sagrada") show this same split between "crown/diadem" and "plate" traditions in rendering nezer haqodesh.
This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.