Leviticus 23:13
וּמִנְחָתוֹ שְׁנֵי עֶשְׂרֹנִים סֹלֶת בְּלוּלָה בַשֶּׁמֶן אִשֶּׁה לַיהוָה רֵיחַ נִיחֹחַ וְנִסְכּוֹ יַיִן רְבִיעִת הַהִֽין׃
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✦ The same verse in five languages
וּמִנְחָתוֹ֩ שְׁנֵ֨י עֶשְׂרֹנִ֜ים סֹ֣לֶת בְּלוּלָ֥ה בַשֶּׁ֛מֶן אִשֶּׁ֥ה לַיהוָ֖ה רֵ֣יחַ נִיחֹ֑חַ וְנִסְכּ֥וֹ יַ֖יִן רְבִיעִ֥ת הַהִֽין׃
καὶ τὴν θυσίαν αὐτοῦ δύο δέκατα σεμιδάλεως ἀναπεποιημένης ἐν ἐλαίῳ· θυσία τῷ κυρίῳ, ὀσμὴ εὐωδίας κυρίῳ· καὶ σπονδὴ αὐτοῦ τὸ τέταρτον τοῦ ἳν οἴνου.
Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0
Latin (Vulgate)
Et libamenta offerentur cum eo, duæ decimæ similæ conspersæ oleo in incensum Domini, odoremque suavissimum: liba quoque vini, quarta pars hin.
Lo acompañarán con una ofrenda de cereal de dos kilos de harina fina amasada con aceite. Esta será una ofrenda hecha por fuego, de aroma agradable a Yehová. La acompañarán también con una ofrenda de un litro y medio de vino.
Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)
Y su presente será dos décimas de flor de harina amasada con aceite, ofrenda encendida á Jehová en olor suavísimo; y su libación de vino, la cuarta parte de un hin.
along with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil — an offering made by fire to the LORD, a pleasing aroma — and its drink offering of a quarter hin of wine.
✦ What the text says
Summary
The verse specifies the accompanying offerings for a sacrifice: a grain offering of two-tenths of fine flour mixed with oil, described as a fire offering producing a soothing odor to Yehovah, plus a drink offering of a quarter-hin of wine.
Key words
- min.cha.T ("grain offering", H4503G) — feminine singular construct with pronominal suffix o ("its"), linking this offering to a preceding sacrifice not shown in this word-list.
- be.lu.Lah ("mixed", H1101A) — qal passive participle, feminine singular, agreeing with So.let ("fine flour", H5560); indicates the flour has undergone the action of mixing, not that it mixes itself.
- 'i.Sheh ("a fire offering", H0801) — masculine singular noun standing in apposition to describe the nature of what was just detailed.
- Rei.ach ("odor of", H7381) — construct form linking directly to ni.Cho.ach ("soothing", H5207), forming the fixed phrase "odor of soothing."
- re.vi.'It ("fourth of", H7243) — feminine ordinal in construct with ha.Hin ("the hin", H1969), specifying a fractional quantity of the measure.
What the text says
The verse is built from two parallel measurement clauses joined by ve ("and", H9002). The first clause centers on min.cha.T-o ("its grain offering"), whose quantity is given by she.Nei 'es.ro.Nim ("two of tenths", H8147 + H6241) — a construct chain meaning "two-tenths." The substance is So.let ("fine flour", H5560), qualified by the participle be.lu.Lah ("mixed", H1101A) with ba.She.men ("with the oil", H8081). This entire unit is then labeled 'i.Sheh la.Yehovah ("a fire offering to Yehovah"), followed by the fixed expression Rei.ach ni.Cho.ach ("odor of soothing").
The second clause mirrors the first structurally: nis.K-o ("its drink offering", H5262) takes ya.yin ("wine", H3196) as its substance, quantified by re.vi.'it ha.Hin ("fourth of the hin", H7243 + H1969) — a construct phrase indicating one-quarter of the hin measure. Both offerings use the same possessive suffix pattern (-o, "its"), tying them to an antecedent sacrifice outside this verse's word list, and both employ construct chains to express fractional quantities rather than separate numeral-plus-noun phrasing.
Differences between versions
The LXX renders she.Nei 'es.ro.Nim ("two-tenths") as δύο δέκατα ("two tenths"), matching the Hebrew construct sense. The Vulgate's duæ decimæ ("two tenths") likewise follows this pattern. The SBLIBRE translation converts the Hebrew measures into modern metric equivalents ("dos kilos," "un litro y medio") rather than preserving the 'es.ro.Nim ("tenths", H6241) and Hin ("hin", H1969) unit terms found in the Hebrew, LXX, and Vulgate.
This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.