Leviticus 7:15

Summary

The verse specifies that the meat from a thanksgiving-type peace offering must be eaten on the same day it is presented, with no portion permitted to remain until the next morning. The instruction combines a construct chain identifying the sacrifice type with a timing rule expressed through two verb forms.

Key words

• besar ("meat/flesh of", H1320) — construct singular noun, first in a four-term construct chain specifying whose meat is meant.
• zevach ("sacrifice of", H2077) — construct singular, links "meat" to the type of offering.
• todat ("thanksgiving of", H8426) — feminine construct singular, further narrows the offering to the thanksgiving subtype.
• ye'akhel ("it will be eaten", H398) — niphal (passive) imperfect; the subject (the meat) undergoes the action, with no explicit agent named.
• yanniach ("he will leave", H5117) — hiphil (causative) imperfect, negated by lo' ("not", H3808); expresses a prohibition against causing any portion to remain.

What the text says

The first clause is built on a long construct chain: besar + zevach + todat + shelamayv ("his peace-offerings," H8002 with 3ms suffix H9023). Each noun depends grammatically on the next, producing the sense "the meat of the sacrifice of the thanksgiving of his peace-offerings." This chain identifies the specific category of offering — a thanksgiving variant within the broader peace-offering (shelamim) class — before any verb appears. The timing phrase beyom qorbano ("on the day of his offering," H3117/H7133A with suffix) attaches a temporal boundary to the eating, which is then expressed with the niphal verb ye'akhel, putting the meat itself as grammatical subject of a passive/impersonal action: "it shall be eaten," without naming who eats it.

The second half shifts to a negative causative construction: lo' yanniach mimmennu ad boqer ("he shall not leave from it until morning"). The hiphil stem of yanniach indicates causing a state (leaving something remaining) rather than a simple state of being left, and the subject is unspecified — grammatically it could refer to the offerer or to an impersonal "one." The preposition min ("from," H4480A) attached to the suffix -menu ("from it") marks partitive extraction — the prohibition covers even a partial remainder, not only the whole.

Differences between versions

The Vulgate (eadem die comedentur... nec remanebit ex eis quidquam usque mane) closely tracks the Hebrew's two-part structure: eating on the same day, and no remainder until morning. The Septuagint text supplied here, however, describes a different subject matter — it speaks of "fat from animals" (στέαρ ἀπὸ τῶν κτηνῶν) and the consequence of eating it, rather than the thanksgiving-offering meat and the same-day eating rule found in the Hebrew and Vulgate; this LXX rendering does not correspond content-wise to the Hebrew of this verse. The English versions (BSB, RV1909, SBLIBRE) align with the Hebrew and Vulgate in both the same-day requirement and the no-remainder rule.