Leviticus 7:10

Summary

Leviticus 7:10 states that every grain offering (minchah), whether mixed with oil or dry, belongs to all the sons of Aaron equally — literally, "a man like his brother." The verse closes a set of regulations on how sacrificial portions are distributed among the priests.

Key words

• minchah ("grain offering", H4503G) — feminine singular noun, the general term for cereal/grain offerings as opposed to animal sacrifices.
• velulah ("mixed", H1101A) — Qal passive participle, feminine singular, describing the minchah as having undergone the action of being mixed (with oil), not performing it.
• charevah ("dry", H2720A) — feminine singular adjective, contrasted with velulah; together the pair forms a merism covering all preparation types of the grain offering.
• tihyeh ("it will belong / will be", H1961) — Qal imperfect, third person feminine, agreeing with minchah; the imperfect here expresses a standing rule rather than a single future event.
• ish ke-achi ("each like his brother", H0376I + H0251I) — a distributive idiom: ish ("a man/each") paired with ke-achi ("like his brother") plus the pronominal suffix -v ("his"), expressing that the portion is to be shared identically among all recipients rather than assigned to one individual.

What the text says

The sentence is built around the feminine subject khol-minchah velulah bashemen vacharevah ("every grain offering, mixed with oil or dry"), governed by the verb tihyeh ("it will be/belong"). The two participial/adjectival forms velulah (passive participle) and charevah (adjective) function together as a merism: by naming both preparation states, the text covers every possible form of the minchah, not just these two specific cases.

The prepositional phrase le-khol-benei Aharon ("to all the sons of Aaron") identifies the beneficiaries, using the construct chain benei Aharon ("sons of Aaron") to specify the priestly line as a collective group. The closing phrase ish ke-achiv is a Hebrew distributive construction that does not translate literally into English or Spanish as "a man like his brother" in an ordinary sense; instead it functions idiomatically to indicate equal, undifferentiated distribution — each person receiving the same as the next.

Differences between versions

The Septuagint text supplied here (Swete edition) does not correspond in content to the Hebrew of Leviticus 7:10; it discusses a person eating sacrificial meat while unclean and being "cut off from the people," a topic belonging to a different part of Leviticus 7. No comparison of specific Greek lexical choices for this verse is possible from the data given.

The Vulgate ("sive oleo conspersa, sive arida... mensura æqua per singulos dividetur") reorders the two conditions (oil-mixed dry) relative to the Hebrew (mixed-dry) but preserves the merism. It renders the distributive idiom ish ke-achiv with "mensura æqua per singulos" ("equal measure among each one"), making the distributive sense explicit rather than idiomatic, as do the RV1909 ("tanto al uno como al otro") and BSB/SBLIBRE ("equally" / "por igual").