Leviticus 7:37

Summary

This verse serves as a summary formula, identifying the preceding legal material as torah ("legal [procedure]", H8451) governing five distinct sacrificial categories: the burnt offering, grain offering, sin offering, guilt offering, and the offerings of installation and peace. It functions as a closing colophon listing the offerings just codified.

Key words

• zot ("this", H2063) — a feminine demonstrative particle pointing back to the material just presented, anchoring the summary to what precedes.
• ha.toRah ("the legal [procedure]", H8451) — feminine singular noun with definite article; a single torah is said to govern all the offerings listed, not one separate law per offering.
• cha.Tat ("sin offering", H2403H) — feminine singular noun, one of the five offering types placed under the umbrella of the single torah.
• mi.lu.'Im ("installation offering(s)", H4394) — masculine plural noun, referring to the offerings associated with the ordination/installation procedure.
• she.la.Mim ("peace offering(s)", H8002) — masculine plural noun in construct relation with Zevach ("sacrifice of", H2077), forming the phrase "sacrifice of the peace offerings."

What the text says

The verse opens with zot ha.toRah ("this [is] the legal [procedure]"), a fixed formula using the feminine demonstrative zot (H2063) agreeing with the feminine noun toRah (H8451). The singular toRah stands over a chain of five offering types, each introduced by the preposition la- ("to the/in the", H9005) — a bound form combining preposition and article — attached to 'oLah (H5930A), minChah (H4503G), chaTat (H2403H), and 'aSham (H0817), all feminine or masculine singular nouns. The repetition of la- before each term, joined by the conjunction ve- ("and", H9002), creates a list structure in which each offering is presented as a distinct application of the same overarching toRah, rather than as separate legal bodies.

The final two items diverge grammatically from the pattern. Mi.lu.'Im (H4394) is plural, "installation offerings," and is likewise introduced by la-. The last item, however, uses a different construction: le-Zevach ha-shelaMim ("to the sacrifice of the peace offerings"), where Zevach (H2077) is a construct-state noun meaning "sacrifice of," followed by ha-shelaMim (H8002), plural "peace offerings" with the definite article. This construct chain ("sacrifice of the peace-offerings") differs structurally from the simple prepositional pattern used for the other four offerings, marking the peace offering category with its own compound phrase rather than a single noun.

Differences between versions

The Vulgate (VULCLEM) condenses the list differently, pairing "sacrifice for sin" (sacrificii pro peccato) and "guilt" (delicto) as if part of one phrase, and rendering mi.lu.'Im as "consecration" (consecratione), a translation choice rather than a literal plural "installations." The Hebrew's five-part list with repeated la- prefixes is thus somewhat flattened in the Latin syntax, though the same five offering categories are named in both.