Leviticus 6:10

Summary

The verse describes the priest dressing in linen garments before performing a specific task: lifting the fatty ash left after the fire has consumed the burnt offering on the altar, and placing it beside the altar.

Key words

• la.Vash ("he will put on", H3847) — qal sequential perfect; continues a chain of ritual actions, marking this as the next required step.
• mi.D.o Vad ("garment of...linen", H4055 + H0906) — construct chain, "his garment of linen," specifying the material of the priestly tunic.
• yil.Bash ("he will put on", H3847) — same root as la.Vash but imperfect form, describing the undergarments as an ongoing/prescribed act distinct from the sequential main verb.
• he.Rim ("he will lift up", H7311A) — hiphil (causative) sequential perfect; the priest causes the ash to be lifted/removed, an active, deliberate motion.
• to.Khal ("it will consume", H0398) — qal imperfect, feminine subject (the fire); embedded in a relative clause describing an action already completed by the time the priest acts.

What the text says

The sentence is built on a chain of sequential perfect verbs — la.Vash ("he will put on"), he.Rim ("he will lift up"), and sa.M ("he will place") — each introduced by the narrative ve (H9001). This chain presents the priest's actions as one continuous procedure: dress, lift the ash, place it. Between the first and second links, an imperfect verb yil.Bash ("he will put on") describes the donning of the mikh.ne.sei-vad ("undergarments of linen", H4370+H0906), grammatically distinguished from the main sequential chain, perhaps marking it as a companion or explanatory action tied to the same act of dressing rather than a separate discrete step.

The clause describing the ash uses a relative construction: ha.De.shen ("the fatty ash", H1880) 'a.Sher ("which", H0834A) to.Khal ("it will consume", H0398) ha.Esh ("the fire", H0784). The imperfect to.Khal has the fire as its grammatical subject (marked "she" in the verb form, agreeing with the feminine noun esh), and the object is marked by 'et (H0853, untranslated direct object marker) before ha.'o.Lah ("the burnt offering", H5930A). This clause functions to identify which ash is meant — the residue from the fire's consumption of the burnt offering — rather than to narrate a separate event in the main sequence.

The final verb, sa.M.o ("he will place it", H7760H), carries a suffix marked in the data as H9033 ("it"), distinguishing this object suffix from the possessive suffixes (H9023, "his") attached to mi.D.o and be.sa.R.o earlier in the verse — grammatically marking the ash as the thing placed, not something possessed by the priest.

Differences between versions

The LXX renders mi.D.o Vad as χιτῶνα λινοῦν ("linen tunic") and mikh.ne.sei-vad as περισκελὲς λινοῦν ("linen leg-covering"), both consistent with the Hebrew's linen-garment sense. For he.Rim ("he will lift up"), the LXX uses ἀφελεῖ ("he will take away") and adds ἀπὸ τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου ("from the altar"), specifying a source location not explicit in the Hebrew clause at that point (the Hebrew places 'al-ha.miz.Be.ach, "on the altar," within the relative clause about the burnt offering, not attached to the lifting verb itself). The Vulgate's tolletque cineres ("and he shall take away the ashes") similarly renders he.Rim with a removal sense parallel to the LXX rather than a strictly vertical "lifting."