Leviticus 6:11

וּפָשַׁט אֶת־בְּגָדָיו וְלָבַשׁ בְּגָדִים אֲחֵרִים וְהוֹצִיא אֶת־הַדֶּשֶׁן אֶל־מִחוּץ לַֽמַּחֲנֶה אֶל־מָקוֹם טָהֽוֹר׃

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Hebrew

וּפָשַׁט֙ אֶת־בְּגָדָ֔יו וְלָבַ֖שׁ בְּגָדִ֣ים אֲחֵרִ֑ים וְהוֹצִ֤יא אֶת־הַדֶּ֙שֶׁן֙ אֶל־מִח֣וּץ לַֽמַּחֲנֶ֔ה אֶל־מָק֖וֹם טָהֽוֹר׃

Greek (Septuagint)

καὶ ἐκδύσεται τὴν στολὴν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐνδύσεται στολὴν ἄλλην, καὶ ἐξοίσει τὴν κατακάρπωσιν ἔξω τῆς παρεμβολῆς εἰς τόπον καθαρόν.

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

Latin (Vulgate)

spoliabitur prioribus vestimentis, indutusque aliis, efferret eos extra castra, et in loco mundissimo usque ad favillam consumi faciet.

Spanish

Después se cambiará de ropa y llevará las cenizas fuera del campamento a un lugar ceremonialmente limpio.

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

Después se desnudará de sus vestimentas, y se pondrá otras vestiduras, y sacará las cenizas fuera del real al lugar limpio.

English

Then he must take off his garments, put on other clothes, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place.

✦ What the text says

Summary

The verse describes a sequence of three actions: the priest removes his garments, puts on different garments, and then carries the fatty ash outside the camp to a pure place. The three verbs form a chain of consecutive actions tied together by the narrative vav.

Key words

fa.Shat ("he will strip off", H6584) — qal sequential perfect; the priest's own action of removing his prior garments before handling the ash.
be.ga.Da ("garments", H0899B) — masculine plural noun in construct with the suffix -o ("his"), referring to the officiating garments the priest wears while working with the ash.
la.Vash ("he will put on", H3847) — qal sequential perfect, parallel in form to fa.Shat, marking the second step: dressing in different clothing before leaving the sacred area.
ho.Tzi' ("he will take out", H3318H) — hiphil (causative) sequential perfect: the priest causes the ash to go out, distinguishing this action from the simple qal verbs used for undressing/dressing.
ta.Hor ("pure", H2889) — adjective qualifying ma.Kom ("a place", H4725); the destination outside the camp is specified as ritually pure, not merely any location.

What the text says

The verse is built as a chain of three sequential perfect verbs (fa.Shat, la.Vash, ho.Tzi'), each introduced by the narrative vav ("and"), which in Biblical Hebrew narrative continues a sequence of actions following a previous verb form. This grammatical structure presents the three actions — undressing, redressing, and removing the ash — as a continuous, ordered procedure rather than isolated or optional steps. The first two verbs (fa.Shat, la.Vash) are qal (simple action) forms describing what the priest does to himself, while the third verb (ho.Tzi') shifts to hiphil, a causative stem, marking that the priest causes the De.shen ("fatty ash", H1880) to move from inside the camp to outside it.

The destination is described with two prepositional phrases stacked together: 'el- mi.Chutz la.Ma.cha.Neh ("to from outside of the camp") and 'el- ma.Kom ta.Hor ("to a pure place"). This double phrasing in the Hebrew specifies both the general area (outside the camp) and the qualifying condition of that area (pure), which the adjective ta.Hor attaches directly to ma.Kom ("place", H4725).

Differences between versions

The Vulgate adds explanatory material not present in the Hebrew word list given: it specifies "usque ad favillam consumi faciet" ("until it is completely reduced to ash"), an expansion beyond the three-verb sequence in the Hebrew. The LXX renders De.shen ("fatty ash", H1880) as κατακάρπωσιν, a term differing from the more literal "ash" rendering seen in other versions, though the underlying action (carrying it outside) matches the Hebrew structure.

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