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Leviticus 5:6

וְהֵבִיא אֶת־אֲשָׁמוֹ לַיהוָה עַל חַטָּאתוֹ אֲשֶׁר חָטָא נְקֵבָה מִן־הַצֹּאן כִּשְׂבָּה אֽוֹ־שְׂעִירַת עִזִּים לְחַטָּאת וְכִפֶּר עָלָיו הַכֹּהֵן מֵחַטָּאתֽוֹ׃

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Hebrew

וְהֵבִ֣יא אֶת־אֲשָׁמ֣וֹ לַיהוָ֡ה עַ֣ל חַטָּאתוֹ֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר חָטָ֜א נְקֵבָ֨ה מִן־הַצֹּ֥אן כִּשְׂבָּ֛ה אֽוֹ־שְׂעִירַ֥ת עִזִּ֖ים לְחַטָּ֑את וְכִפֶּ֥ר עָלָ֛יו הַכֹּהֵ֖ן מֵחַטָּאתֽוֹ׃

Greek (Septuagint)

καὶ οἴσει περὶ ὦν ἐπλημμέλησεν κυρίῳ, περὶ τῆς ἁμαρτίας ἧς ἥμαρτεν, θῆλυ ἀπὸ τῶν προβάτων, ἀμνάδα ἢ χίμαιραν ἐξ αἰγῶν περὶ ἁμαρτίας· καὶ ἐξιλάσεται περὶ αὐτοῦ ὁ ἱερεὺς περὶ τῆς ἁμαρτίας αὐτοῦ ἧς ἥμαρτεν, καὶ ἀφεθήσεται αὐτῷ ἡ ἁμαρτία.

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

Latin (Vulgate)

et offerat de gregibus agnam sive capram, orabitque pro ea sacerdos et pro peccato ejus.

Spanish

y le traerá a Yehová su ofrenda por la culpa debido al pecado que cometió: una hembra del rebaño, oveja o cabra, como ofrenda por el pecado; y el sacerdote hará expiación por él respecto a su pecado.

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

Y para su expiación traerá á Jehová por su pecado que ha cometido, una hembra de los rebaños, una cordera ó una cabra como ofrenda de expiación; y el sacerdote hará expiación por él de su pecado.

English

and he must bring his guilt offering to the LORD for the sin he has committed: a female lamb or goat from the flock as a sin offering. And the priest will make atonement for him concerning his sin.

✦ What the text says

Summary

The verse specifies the compensatory offering for the sin previously described: the offender must bring a female animal — a ewe lamb or a female goat — to Yehovah as both 'asham ("guilt offering") and chattah ("sin offering"), after which the priest performs atonement on his behalf.

Key words

  • 'asham ("guilt offering", H0817) — construct noun with suffix ("his guilt offering"), naming the offering brought specifically for the wrong committed.
  • chattah ("sin", H2403B) — construct noun with suffix, repeated twice (lines 9-10, 30-31), tying the offering grammatically to "his sin."
  • nequvah ("a female", H5347) — feminine singular adjective placed before the animal terms, marking that the required sacrifice must be female, distinct from male-only offerings elsewhere in Leviticus.
  • kipper ("he will make atonement", H3722A) — piel (intensive) stem, sequential perfect, describing the priest's completed ritual action, not merely a request or wish.
  • chata' ("he has sinned", H2398) — qal perfect, denoting the completed act of wrongdoing that triggers the whole procedure.

What the text says

The verse opens with a sequential-perfect hiphil verb, hevi' ("he will bring", H0935P), continuing a narrative chain begun earlier in the passage. Its object is 'ashamo ("his guilt offering"), directed la-YHWH ("to Yehovah"), and qualified by the phrase 'al chattato 'asher chata ("on account of his sin that he sinned") — a construct chain reinforced by a relative clause using the same root (chata') as both noun and verb, underscoring that the offering corresponds directly to the offense.

The animal is specified as nequvah min ha-tson, "a female from the flock," followed by two options in apposition: kisbah ("a ewe lamb", H3776) or se'irat 'izim ("a female goat of goats", H8166 + H5795), the second phrase itself a construct chain. Both options are designated le-chattat, "for a sin offering," using the same root (chattah) that earlier named the offense — so the noun chattah functions both as "sin" and as "sin offering" within the same verse, a double use the Hebrew text carries but which requires disambiguation in translation.

The final clause shifts to piel kipper ("he will make atonement"), with the priest (ha-kohen) as subject, acting 'alav ("on him") and me-chattato ("from his sin") — the preposition min here indicating removal or separation from the sin's consequence.

Differences between versions

The LXX renders 'asham not as a noun ("guilt offering") but as a verbal clause, περὶ ὧν ἐπλημμέλησεν ("concerning what he trespassed"), shifting the Hebrew's offering-terminology into an action-description. The Vulgate condenses the verse considerably, omitting the 'asham/guilt-offering language and the phrase "to Yehovah," stating only that the animal is offered and the priest prays pro ea ("for her/it") — using a different pronoun referent than the Hebrew's 'alav ("for him").

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