Leviticus 2:8

Summary

The verse instructs that the grain offering prepared "from these" (referring to the preparation methods described earlier in the chapter) is to be brought to Yehovah, then handed to the priest, who in turn brings it to the altar. The sentence describes a three-stage sequence of transfer: offerer → Yehovah, offerer → priest, priest → altar.

Key words

• he.ve.Ta ("you will bring", H0935P) — hiphil sequential perfect, causative form ("cause to come/bring"), second person masculine, continuing the chain of instructions begun earlier in the chapter.
• min.Chah ("grain offering", H4503G) — feminine singular noun, the direct object marked by 'et- (H0853), definite via the article ha- (H9009).
• ye.'a.Seh ("it will be made", H6213H) — niphal imperfect, passive voice: the offering "is made" without naming an agent, describing the manner of preparation referenced by 'a.Sher ("which", H0834A) and 'E.leh ("these [things]", H0428).
• hik.ri.Va ("he will present", H7126H) — hiphil sequential perfect with third person suffix -ha ("her/it", H9034), continuing the sequence: the offering is presented to the priest.
• hi.gi.Sha ("he will bring near", H5066H) — hiphil sequential perfect, again with suffix -ha (H9034), describing the priest's action of bringing the offering to the altar.

What the text says

The Hebrew verse is built from three sequential perfect verbs (he.ve.Ta, hik.ri.Va, hi.gi.Sha), all in the hiphil causative stem, chained by the narrative ve- (H9001). This grammatical structure marks continuous action following a preceding sequence — each verb picks up where the last left off, producing a chain: "you will bring" → "he will present" → "he will bring near." The subject shifts from second person ("you," the offerer) in the first verb to third person ("he," implicitly the priest) in the final two verbs, though the pronominal suffix -ha (H9034, "her/it," referring to the feminine noun min.Chah) tracks the offering itself as the object throughout.

The relative clause 'a.Sher yE.'a.Seh mE-'Elleh ("which will be made from these") uses a niphal imperfect (H6213H), a passive-reflexive form that does not specify who prepares the offering — the focus is on the process rather than the agent. The phrase mE-'Elleh ("from these," H0428) points back to the preparation methods listed earlier in the chapter without repeating them.

Differences between versions

The Vulgate (VULCLEM) preserves only the final portion of the verse as given ("quam offerens Domino, trades manibus sacerdotis" — "which, offering to the Lord, you will hand over into the hands of the priest"), omitting explicit mention of the priest's subsequent action of bringing it to the altar that appears in the Hebrew's third verb hi.gi.Sha (H5066H). The LXX (LXXSWETE) uses προσοίσει ("he will bring/offer") twice, corresponding to the first two Hebrew verbs, and adds προσεγγίσας ("having approached"), a participle rather than a finite verb, for the final approach to the altar.