Leviticus 7:2

Summary

The verse specifies that the guilt offering (asham, H0817) must be slaughtered in the same location where the burnt offering (olah, H5930A) is slaughtered. It further instructs that the blood of the guilt offering is to be sprinkled on all sides of the altar (mizbeach, H4196).

Key words

• m.Kom ("place", H4725) — construct noun introducing the relative clause that follows; it establishes a spatial reference point rather than a general location.
• yish.cha.Tu ("people cut throat of", H7819A) — qal imperfect, third person masculine plural, used twice in the verse (for the burnt offering and again for the guilt offering), indicating an ongoing or customary ritual action performed by unspecified agents ("they").
• 'a.Sham ("guilt offering", H0817) — masculine singular noun naming the specific offering type whose slaughter location is being regulated.
• yiz.Rok ("he will sprinkle", H2236) — qal imperfect, third person masculine singular, switching to a singular subject distinct from the plural "they" of the slaughtering verbs, marking a shift in agent for the blood-sprinkling action.
• sa.Viv ("all around", H5439H) — common gender noun functioning adverbially to describe the manner of sprinkling around the altar's perimeter.

What the text says

The Hebrew sentence opens with a locative construction: bi-m.Kom 'a.Sher ("in the place where"), which sets up a spatial equivalence between two ritual actions. The verb yish.cha.Tu appears twice, first governing ha-'o.Lah ("the burnt offering") as its direct object (marked by 'et, H0853), then governing ha-'a.Sham ("the guilt offering"). Both instances use the same third-person plural imperfect form, syntactically linking the location of slaughter for the burnt offering to that of the guilt offering without stating who performs the action.

The second half of the verse shifts to a singular verb, yiz.Rok ("he will sprinkle"), whose subject is grammatically distinct from the plural subject of the slaughtering verbs. The object is dam-o ("its blood", H1818 + H9023, "its"), referring back to the guilt offering's blood via the pronominal suffix. This blood is to be applied 'al ha-miz.Be.ach ("on the altar") sa.Viv ("all around"), the final word functioning adverbially to specify that the sprinkling covers the altar's entire perimeter rather than a single point.

Differences between versions

The Vulgate (mactabitur et victima pro delicto) and the Spanish versions (RV1909, SBLIBRE) closely track the Hebrew's two-part structure: same slaughter location, then blood sprinkled around the altar. The BSB similarly preserves this structure, explicitly naming "the priest" as the subject of the sprinkling verb, though the Hebrew text itself does not name the agent explicitly at this point. The LXX text provided in the data set discusses a thanksgiving offering (peri aineseōs, "concerning praise") and bread offerings, which does not correspond to the Hebrew content of this verse describing the guilt offering's slaughter and blood application.