Leviticus 14:10

וּבַיּוֹם הַשְּׁמִינִי יִקַּח שְׁנֵֽי־כְבָשִׂים תְּמִימִים וְכַבְשָׂה אַחַת בַּת־שְׁנָתָהּ תְּמִימָה וּשְׁלֹשָׁה עֶשְׂרֹנִים סֹלֶת מִנְחָה בְּלוּלָה בַשֶּׁמֶן וְלֹג אֶחָד שָֽׁמֶן׃

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Hebrew

וּבַיּ֣וֹם הַשְּׁמִינִ֗י יִקַּ֤ח שְׁנֵֽי־כְבָשִׂים֙ תְּמִימִ֔ים וְכַבְשָׂ֥ה אַחַ֛ת בַּת־שְׁנָתָ֖הּ תְּמִימָ֑ה וּשְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה עֶשְׂרֹנִ֗ים סֹ֤לֶת מִנְחָה֙ בְּלוּלָ֣ה בַשֶּׁ֔מֶן וְלֹ֥ג אֶחָ֖ד שָֽׁמֶן׃

Greek (Septuagint)

καὶ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῇ ὀγδόη λήμψεται δύο ἀμνοὺς ἐνιαυσίους ἀμώμους, καὶ πρόβατον ἐνιαύσιον ἄμωμον, καὶ τρία δέκατα σεμιδάλεως εἰς θυσίαν πεφυραμένης ἐν ἐλαίῳ, καὶ κοτύλην ἐλαίου μίαν·

Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0

Latin (Vulgate)

die octavo assumet duos agnos immaculatos, et ovem anniculam absque macula, et tres decimas similæ in sacrificium, quæ conspersa sit oleo, et seorsum olei sextarium.

Spanish

“Al octavo día, la persona tomará dos corderos sin defecto, una cordera de un año sin defecto, tres kilos de harina fina amasada con aceite como ofrenda de cereal, y un log de aceite.

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

Y el día octavo tomará dos corderos sin defecto, y una cordera de un año sin tacha; y tres décimas de flor de harina para presente, amasada con aceite, y un log de aceite.

English

On the eighth day he is to bring two unblemished male lambs, an unblemished ewe lamb a year old, a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with olive oil, and one log of olive oil.

✦ What the text says

Summary

This verse specifies the offerings required on the eighth day of the purification ritual: two unblemished male lambs, one unblemished ewe-lamb in its first year, three-tenths (of an ephah) of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and one log of oil. The verse consists almost entirely of an inventory of items and their required qualities, with a single verb governing the whole list.

Key words

yiKach ("he will take", H3947G) — qal imperfect, third person masculine singular; this is the only finite verb in the verse and governs all subsequent nouns as its objects, indicating a single continuous action of "taking/bringing" the entire set of offerings.
temiMim / temiMah ("unblemished", H8549G) — adjective appearing twice, once masculine plural (agreeing with the two male lambs) and once feminine singular (agreeing with the ewe-lamb), marking the physical qualification required for each animal separately.
bat-shenaTah ("daughter of its year", H1323G + H8141) — construct chain literally "daughter of her year," an idiomatic way of expressing age; it specifies the ewe-lamb is in its first year.
beluLah ("mixed", H1101A) — qal passive participle feminine singular, describing the fine flour as having already undergone the action of mixing with oil, rather than commanding a mixing to happen.
log ("a log", H3849) — noun in construct form, functioning as a measure of volume attached to shamen ("oil", H8081), giving a precise quantity distinct from the oil already mixed into the flour.

What the text says

The Hebrew sentence structure places the temporal phrase u-va-Yom ha-sheminI ("and on the eighth day") first, then the verb yiKach ("he will take"), followed by a chain of direct objects: two male lambs, a ewe-lamb, and quantities of flour and oil. Because only one verb governs the entire list, the Hebrew presents the collection of offerings as a single, unified transaction rather than a step-by-step accumulation. Each animal receives its own qualifier of "unblemished" agreeing in gender and number, which shows that this requirement was assigned individually rather than being one general descriptor for the group.

The double occurrence of echad ("one", H0259) — once feminine for the ewe-lamb's age reference structure and again for the log of oil — and the two separate mentions of shemen ("oil", H8081) are notable: the oil mixed into the flour offering (beluLah va-Shemen, "mixed with the oil") is grammatically distinct from the additional log of oil listed at the end, indicating two separate uses of oil within the same set of offerings.

Differences between versions

The LXX renders khevaSim ("male lambs", H3532) as ἀμνοὺς ἐνιαυσίους ("year-old lambs"), adding an age specification not explicit in this Hebrew word alone, though the concept of "a year" appears in the Hebrew only in connection with the ewe-lamb (bat-shenaTah). The Vulgate's sextarium for log (H3849) uses a Roman volume measure as an equivalent for the Hebrew unit, rather than transliterating it as some translations do (e.g., BSB's "log").

This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.