Leviticus 6:22
וְהַכֹּהֵן הַמָּשִׁיחַ תַּחְתָּיו מִבָּנָיו יַעֲשֶׂה אֹתָהּ חָק־עוֹלָם לַיהוָה כָּלִיל תָּקְטָֽר׃
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וְהַכֹּהֵ֨ן הַמָּשִׁ֧יחַ תַּחְתָּ֛יו מִבָּנָ֖יו יַעֲשֶׂ֣ה אֹתָ֑הּ חָק־עוֹלָ֕ם לַיהוָ֖ה כָּלִ֥יל תָּקְטָֽר׃
ὁ ἱερεὺς ὁ χριστὸς ἀντ᾽ αὐτοῦ ἐκ τῶν υἱῶν αὐτοῦ ποιήσει αὐτήν· νόμος αἰώνιος, ἅπαν ἐπιτελεσθήσεται.
Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0
Latin (Vulgate)
sacerdos, qui jure patri successerit, et tota cremabitur in altari.
La ofrecerá el sacerdote ungido que tome el lugar de Aarón de entre sus hijos. Como un estatuto perpetuo, se quemará por completo para Yehová.
Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)
Y el sacerdote que en lugar de Aarón fuere ungido de entre sus hijos, hará la ofrenda; estatuto perpetuo de Jehová: toda ella será quemada.
The priest, who is one of Aaron’s sons and will be anointed to take his place, is to prepare it. As a permanent portion for the LORD, it must be burned completely.
✦ What the text says
Summary
Leviticus 6:22 specifies who performs the grain offering ritual after the officiating priest: the anointed priest who succeeds Aaron among his sons. It states this is a perpetual statute for Yehovah, and that the offering must be entirely turned to smoke.
Key words
- ko.Hen ("priest", H3548) — masculine singular noun, marked with the definite article ha. ("the", H9009), identifying the subject of the verse.
- ma.Shi.ach ("anointed", H4899) — masculine singular noun in apposition to ko.Hen, specifying that this priest is designated by anointing.
- chok ("a prescribed portion of", H2706G) — construct singular noun linked to o.Lam ("perpetuity", H5769G), forming the phrase "a statute of perpetuity," marking the regulation as permanently binding.
- ka.Lil ("a whole offering", H3632) — masculine singular adjective describing the totality of what is offered, that nothing is withheld.
- ta.ke.Tar ("it will be made to smoke", H6999A) — Hophal (causative-passive) imperfect verb, indicating the offering undergoes the action of being turned into smoke, rather than an agent actively burning it.
What the text says
The sentence opens with the subject ha.ko.Hen ha.ma.Shi.ach ("the priest, the anointed one"), followed by tach.Ta ("in place of," H8478H, formally a masculine plural construct form) plus the suffix v ("him"), and mi.ba.Na ("from his sons"). This chain establishes succession: the priest who takes over is drawn from among Aaron's sons. The verb ya.'a.Seh ("he will offer," Qal imperfect) governs the direct object marked by 'o.Ta + h ("it"), referring back to the offering discussed earlier in the passage.
The clause chok-o.Lam la.Yah.weh ("a statute of perpetuity to Yehovah") functions independently, framing the practice as an enduring regulation rather than a one-time instruction. The final clause, ka.Lil ta.ke.Tar ("whole offering, it will be made to smoke"), places the adjective ka.Lil before its verb, emphasizing completeness. The verb form ta.ke.Tar is Hophal — grammatically passive with causative force — meaning the offering is caused to become smoke, without naming an agent; the text focuses on the offering's transformation rather than on who performs the burning.
Differences between versions
The LXX renders ma.Shi.ach ("anointed") with χριστὸς (christos), a direct lexical parallel. The Vulgate instead paraphrases this concept as "qui jure patri successerit" ("who succeeds the father by right"), omitting explicit reference to anointing found in the Hebrew and LXX. Additionally, the Hebrew Hophal ta.ke.Tar ("it will be made to smoke") is rendered in the Vulgate, RV1909, BSB, and SBLIBRE with general terms for burning ("cremabitur," "será quemada," "burned," "se quemará"), which do not preserve the specific sense of smoke-production carried by the Hebrew root.
This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.