Leviticus 7:9

Summary

Leviticus 7:9 states that every grain offering (minchah, H4503G) baked in an oven, or prepared in a pan or on a griddle, belongs to the priest who presents it. The verse assigns the disposition of these baked/cooked grain offerings to the officiating priest as his portion.

Key words

• minchah ("grain offering", H4503G) — feminine singular noun, the general term for a cereal offering, here marked by khol ("every/all", H3605) in construct, meaning "every kind of grain offering."
• te'aPeh ("it will be baked", H0644) — niphal (passive) imperfect, third person feminine; the grain offering is the passive subject of the baking action, with no named agent.
• na'aSah ("that which has been made", H6213H) — niphal participle, feminine singular, describing an offering as "the one being made/prepared," covering offerings not explicitly baked but processed in a pan.
• makRiv ("the one presenting", H7126H) — hiphil (causative) participle, masculine singular, describing the priest as the agent who "causes to draw near," i.e., brings the offering forward.
• tihYeh ("it will belong/it will be", H1961) — qal imperfect, third person feminine, the main verb assigning the offering's final disposition to the priest.

What the text says

The verse is built around three parallel descriptions of prepared grain offerings, each introduced by khol ("every/all", H3605): one baked ba-tanNur ("in the oven", H8574H), one made va-marCheshet ("in the baking pan", H4802), and one "on" ('al, H5921A) a machaVat ("baking tray", H4227). The first two use niphal forms (te'aPeh, na'aSah), grammatically passive, so the text does not specify who bakes or prepares the offering — only its resulting state matters for the ruling that follows.

The second half of the verse identifies the recipient: la-koHen ("to the priest", H3548), further specified by the participial phrase ha-makRiv 'otah ("the one presenting it"), using the direct object marker 'oTah (H0853 + H9034) to refer back to the minchah. The final clause, lo tihYeh ("to him it will belong"), places the pronominal suffix lo ("to him", H9033) before the qal imperfect verb tihYeh (H1961), a common Hebrew construction for expressing possession or belonging — literally "to him it will be." The syntax thus moves from describing the offering's preparation (passive verbs) to assigning it definitively to the active agent, the presenting priest (hiphil participle makRiv).

Differences between versions

The Vulgate (omne sacrificium similae... ejus erit sacerdotis a quo offertur) and the Spanish/English translations align closely with the Hebrew structure, naming the oven, griddle (craticula/sartén), and pan (sartagine/plancha) and assigning the offering to the presenting priest. The Septuagint text supplied here, however, discusses meat (krea) touching something unclean and being burned or eaten by the pure — content that does not correspond to the Hebrew grain-offering regulation in this verse, representing a substantial divergence from the other witnesses provided.