Leviticus 6:30

Summary

The verse establishes a rule for a specific category of chaTat ("sin offering", H2403H): if its blood is brought into the tent of meeting to perform atonement in the holy place, the offering may not be eaten but must be burned in fire. The Hebrew presents this as a conditional relative clause followed by two passive prohibitions/commands.

Key words

• chaTat ("sin offering", H2403H) — feminine singular noun, referent of the following relative clause and of the pronominal suffix in damah.
• yuVa ("it will be brought in", H0935P) — hophal (causative-passive) imperfect: the offering's blood is the object being brought, not the agent bringing it.
• kaPer ("to atone", H3722A) — piel infinitive construct, expressing purpose ("in order to atone") for the entry of the blood into the sanctuary.
• te'aKhel ("it will be eaten", H0398) — niphal imperfect, passive form negated by lo' ("not", H3808), stating a prohibition without naming who would eat it.
• tisaReph ("it will be burned", H8313) — niphal imperfect, passive, parallel in form to te'aKhel, with no stated agent performing the burning.

What the text says

The sentence opens with ve-khol ("and any of", H9002+H3605), a construct phrase governing chaTat, which sets up a general class: "any sin offering such that...". The relative clause asher yuva mi-damah ("which some of its blood will be brought", H0834A+H0935P+H1818+H9024) uses the hophal of yuVa, marking the blood as the grammatical subject of a passive action — it is brought, rather than someone bringing it, keeping the agent unspecified. The destination is el-ohel mo'ed ("into the tent of meeting", H0413+H0168G+H4150I), and the purpose is expressed by the piel infinitive le-khaPer ("to make atonement", H9005+H3722A), locating the atonement action ba-qodesh ("in the holy place", H9003+H6944J).

The main clause consists of two short passive statements in parallel: lo' te'akhel ("it will not be eaten") and ba-esh tisaref ("in the fire it will be burned"). Both verbs are niphal imperfect, third-person feminine, agreeing with chaTat. Neither clause names a human subject — the grammar itself withholds who eats or who burns, focusing entirely on the fate of the offering.

Differences between versions

The LXX renders the singular chaTat with a plural phrase, "τὰ περὶ τῆς ἁμαρτίας" ("the things concerning sin"), and uses "αὐτῶν" ("their"), a plural pronoun, where the Hebrew has the singular suffix in damah ("its blood", H9024). The Vulgate adds "quae caeditur" ("which is slain"), a detail not present in the Hebrew wording, and inserts "sed" ("but") to mark an explicit contrast between "non comedetur" and "comburetur igni" that the Hebrew expresses only through juxtaposition without a conjunction. The SBLIBRE Spanish translation supplies "Esa carne" ("that flesh") as the subject of burning, a noun not present in the Hebrew, where tisaref stands alone as a passive verb without a stated grammatical subject.