Leviticus 7:35

Summary

This verse closes the section on priestly portions from sacrificial offerings, stating that the mishchat ("portion/anointing-share", H4888A) of Aaron and his sons comes from the fire-offerings made to YHWH (H3068G). It marks the day when someone presented them so they could serve as priests.

Key words

• mishchat ("share of / anointing of", H4888A) — feminine singular construct noun, repeated twice (for Aaron, then for his sons); its construct form requires a following noun to complete the phrase ("the mishchat of X").
• ishei ("fire-offerings of", H0801) — masculine plural construct, linking the portion directly to the category of offerings burned for YHWH.
• hikriv ("he presented", H7126H) — Hiphil (causative) perfect, third person masculine singular; the causative stem indicates someone caused Aaron and his sons to be brought forward, but the grammar does not name who performed the action.
• otam ("them", H0853+H9038) — direct object marker with pronominal suffix, marking Aaron and his sons as the ones presented.
• le-khahen ("to serve as priests", H3547) — Piel infinitive construct with preposition le-, expressing purpose: the presentation happened "in order to" install them in priestly service.

What the text says

The verse opens with the demonstrative zot ("this", H2063), pointing back to the regulations just described, and then defines them as the mishchat of Aaron and the mishchat of his sons (banav, H1121A with 3ms suffix). Both instances of mishchat are construct-form nouns, a grammatical pattern that binds each occurrence to the following genitive ("share of Aaron," "share of his sons"), and the whole phrase is further specified by me-ishei YHWH ("from the fire-offerings of YHWH"), showing the source of the portion.

The temporal clause be-yom hikriv otam le-khahen la-YHWH ("on the day he presented them to serve as priests to YHWH") uses a Hiphil perfect verb (hikriv) whose subject is grammatically unspecified — only the third-person masculine singular verb form is given, without an explicit subject noun in the Hebrew clause itself. The purpose of that presentation is expressed through the Piel infinitive le-khahen, "to act as priest," governed by the preposition le-.

Differences between versions

The Vulgate (VULCLEM) supplies an explicit subject for the presenting action, "Moyses" ("Moses"), where the Hebrew verb hikriv ("he presented", H7126H) leaves the subject unstated. The Spanish (SBLIBRE) and English (BSB) versions likewise render hikriv with an unspecified "they were presented," using a passive construction not marked as such in the Hebrew active verb form. Additionally, VULCLEM translates mishchat (H4888A) as "unctio" ("anointing"), while BSB and SBLIBRE render it as "portion," reflecting the two possible senses carried by this noun in the source text.