Leviticus 21:24

Summary

Leviticus 21:24 closes the chapter with a narrative notice: Moses transmitted the preceding regulations to Aaron, to Aaron's sons, and to all the people of Israel. The verse functions as a formal closing formula marking the end of a legal unit.

Key words

• yedaBer ("he spoke", H1696G) — piel stem of the root for "speak," narrative form indicating a completed reported action; the piel here carries the sense of authoritative or official speech rather than casual conversation.
• Mosheh ("Moses", H4872) — proper name, subject of the verb; the one performing the transmission.
• banav ("his sons", H1121A + H9023) — construct plural noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix, meaning literally "sons of him," referring to Aaron's sons as a distinct addressee group.
• kol ("all", H3605) — construct singular noun meaning "totality of," here governing the following phrase to indicate the complete community, not a subset.
• benei ("sons/people of", H1121G) — construct plural noun forming the phrase "sons of Israel," the standard Hebrew designation for the Israelite community as a collective.

What the text says

The Hebrew sentence opens with the narrative vav attached to yedaBer, a construction typical of Hebrew narrative sequence marking a new reported event following the preceding legal material. The subject Mosheh follows the verb, which is standard verb-subject word order in Biblical Hebrew narrative.

The addressees are listed in a chain using the preposition 'el ("to", H0413) repeated three times, each joined by the conjunction ve ("and", H9002): first to Aaron, then to his sons, then to all the sons of Israel. This threefold repetition of the preposition creates three distinct grammatical units rather than a single collapsed list, emphasizing that the speech reached three separate categories of recipients — the high priest, the priestly line, and the general population — in that order. The construct chain kol-benei Yisra'el ("all the sons of Israel") uses kol to signal totality, indicating the complete assembly rather than a partial group.

The Hebrew text does not specify the content of what Moses spoke beyond what is implied by the preceding chapter; the verse itself contains no object clause stating "these words" or similar.

Differences between versions

The Vulgate adds an explicit object clause absent from the Hebrew: cuncta quae fuerant sibi imperata ("all the things which had been commanded to him"), making explicit what Moses spoke about. The Hebrew and the LXX (καὶ ἐλάλησεν Μωυσῆς πρὸς Ἀαρὼν καὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ καὶ πρὸς πάντας υἱοὺς Ἰσραήλ) do not include this object clause, simply reporting that Moses spoke to the three groups without specifying content within the verse itself. The BSB and SBLIBRE render this implied content with "this" or "todo esto," supplying an object pronoun not present in the Hebrew source text.