Leviticus 4:11

וְאֶת־עוֹר הַפָּר וְאֶת־כָּל־בְּשָׂרוֹ עַל־רֹאשׁוֹ וְעַל־כְּרָעָיו וְקִרְבּוֹ וּפִרְשֽׁוֹ׃

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Hebrew

וְאֶת־ע֤וֹר הַפָּר֙ וְאֶת־כָּל־בְּשָׂר֔וֹ עַל־רֹאשׁ֖וֹ וְעַל־כְּרָעָ֑יו וְקִרְבּ֖וֹ וּפִרְשֽׁוֹ׃

Greek (Septuagint)

καὶ τὸ δέρμα τοῦ μόσχου καὶ πᾶσαν αὐτοῦ τὴν σάρκα σὺν τῆ κεφαλῇ καὶ τοῖς ἀκρωτηρίοις καὶ τῇ κοιλίᾳ καὶ τῇ κόπρῳ,

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

Latin (Vulgate)

Pellem vero et omnes carnes, cum capite et pedibus et intestinis et fimo,

Spanish

Pero la piel del becerro y toda su carne, con su cabeza, sus patas, sus entrañas y su excremento,

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

Y el cuero del becerro, y toda su carne, con su cabeza, y sus piernas, y sus intestinos, y su estiércol,

English

But the hide of the bull and all its flesh, with its head and legs and its entrails and dung —

✦ What the text says

Summary

This verse continues an enumeration of the parts of the sacrificial bull that must be removed from the camp (as detailed in the following verse). It lists the hide, all the flesh, and specific body parts — head, legs, entrails, and dung — using a chain of construct nouns each marked with a third-person masculine singular suffix referring back to the bull.

Key words

or ("hide of", H5785) — masculine singular noun in construct state, opening the list as the object marked by 'et (H0853), directly governed by the verb of the surrounding sentence (not present in this verse alone).
besar ("flesh", H1320) — construct noun preceded by kol ("all", H3605), forming the phrase "all the flesh of," also marked by 'et, paired grammatically with or.
ro'sh ("head", H7218A) — construct noun introduced by the preposition 'al (H5921A), here functioning as "with" rather than its more common spatial sense "upon."
kera'ayim ("legs", H3767) — feminine dual construct form, indicating the two legs as a natural pair, also governed by 'al.
qereb ("entrails", H7130H) — construct noun continuing the list via simple conjunction ve (H9002), without a repeated preposition.
peresh ("offal/dung", H6569) — final construct noun in the chain, closing the enumeration.

What the text says

The verse is built as an extended list of body parts, each carrying the third-person masculine singular suffix o ("his/its", H9023), which consistently points back to "the bull" (ha-par, H6499) named earlier in the verse. Grammatically, the list splits into two groups: the first two items, "hide" and "all its flesh," are marked as direct objects with the particle 'et (H0853), showing they are the primary things acted upon by the verb governing this clause (found in the surrounding context, not in v.11 itself). The remaining items — head, legs, entrails, and dung — are introduced by the preposition 'al (H5921A), which typically means "upon" but here functions adverbially as "along with" or "together with," linking accompanying parts to the main objects rather than marking them as separate direct objects.

The dual form of kera'ayim ("legs", H3767) reflects the natural pairing of legs, a grammatical feature not preserved in translations that render it as a plain plural.

Differences between versions

The LXX renders the Hebrew 'al ("with", H5921A) using the Greek preposition σὺν ("with"), maintaining the same accompanying sense. Where the Hebrew has kera'ayim ("legs", H3767), the LXX uses ἀκρωτηρίοις ("extremities"), and the Vulgate uses pedibus ("feet"), both broadening or narrowing the specific body part named in the Hebrew text.

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