Leviticus 7:29

Summary

Yehovah instructs Moses to tell the Israelites that anyone who presents a zevach shelamim ("peace offering", H2077/H8002) to Yehovah must bring his qorban ("offering/present", H7133A) from that same sacrifice to Yehovah. The verse establishes a procedural link between offering the sacrifice and bringing a specific portion of it.

Key words

• daBer ("speak", H1696G) — piel imperative, a direct and intensive command form addressed to Moses.
• hamakRiv ("the one presenting", H7126H) — hiphil participle with definite article, describing an ongoing agent-role: "the one who causes to bring near/presents," functioning as the subject of the sentence.
• zevach shelamiv ("sacrifice of his peace offerings", H2077 + H8002) — construct chain, masculine singular noun governing a plural noun with possessive suffix, appearing twice in the verse.
• yaVi' ("he will bring", H0935P) — hiphil imperfect, causative verb indicating a future/ongoing obligation: "he must cause [it] to come."
• qorbaNo ("his offering/present", H7133A) — masculine singular construct noun with possessive suffix, denoting the specific item to be brought.

What the text says

The verse opens with the piel imperative daBer ("speak", H1696G) directed at Moses, followed by the addressees benei Yisra'El ("the people/sons of Israel", H1121G + H3478) and the infinitive le'moR ("saying", H0559), a standard formula introducing reported speech.

The main clause uses a participle construction: hamakRiv ("the one presenting", H7126H), a hiphil participle with the definite article, functions grammatically as a nominalized subject — "the one who presents." This subject governs the object marked by 'et (untranslated direct object marker, H0853) followed by the construct phrase zevach shelamav ("the sacrifice of his peace offerings", H2077/H8002), directed la-Yehovah ("to Yehovah", H3068G).

The second clause shifts to a finite verb, yaVi' ("he will bring", H0935P), a hiphil imperfect expressing future or habitual obligation. Its object is qorbano ("his offering", H7133A), again directed la-Yehovah. The final phrase mi-zevach shelamav ("from the sacrifice of his peace offerings", H2077/H8002) uses the preposition min ("from", H9006) to indicate that the qorban is a portion taken from the larger zevach shelamim, not identical to it.

Differences between versions

The Vulgate renders the final phrase as "sacrificium, id est, libamenta ejus" ("the sacrifice, that is, his libations"), interpreting qorban as referring to libations, whereas the Hebrew qorban (H7133A) simply denotes "offering" or "present" without specifying liquid libations. The BSB and SBLIBRE translations render the participle hamakRiv and the phrase structure more loosely as "anyone who presents... must bring it," compressing the two Hebrew clauses (presenting the zevach and bringing the qorban "from" it) into a single action, where the Hebrew text distinguishes the whole sacrifice from the specific portion taken min ("from", H9006) it.