Leviticus 8:2

קַח אֶֽת־אַהֲרֹן וְאֶת־בָּנָיו אִתּוֹ וְאֵת הַבְּגָדִים וְאֵת שֶׁמֶן הַמִּשְׁחָה וְאֵת׀ פַּר הַֽחַטָּאת וְאֵת שְׁנֵי הָֽאֵילִים וְאֵת סַל הַמַּצּֽוֹת׃

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Hebrew

קַ֤ח אֶֽת־אַהֲרֹן֙ וְאֶת־בָּנָ֣יו אִתּ֔וֹ וְאֵת֙ הַבְּגָדִ֔ים וְאֵ֖ת שֶׁ֣מֶן הַמִּשְׁחָ֑ה וְאֵ֣ת׀ פַּ֣ר הַֽחַטָּ֗את וְאֵת֙ שְׁנֵ֣י הָֽאֵילִ֔ים וְאֵ֖ת סַ֥ל הַמַּצּֽוֹת׃

Greek (Septuagint)

Λάβε Ἀαρὼν καὶ τοὺς αὐτοῦ καὶ τὰς στολὰς αὐτοῦ, καὶ τὸ ἔλαιον τῆς χρίσεως καὶ τὸν τὸν περὶ τῆς ἁμαρτίας καὶ τοὺς δύο κριοὺς καὶ τὸ κανοῦν τῶν ἀζύμων·

Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0

Latin (Vulgate)

Tolle Aaron cum filiis suis, vestes eorum, et unctionis oleum, vitulum pro peccato, duos arietes, canistrum cum azymis:

Spanish

“Toma a Aarón y a sus hijos, junto con sus vestiduras, el aceite de la unción, el becerro de la ofrenda por el pecado, los dos carneros y la canasta de pan sin levadura;

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

Toma á Aarón y á sus hijos con él, y las vestimentas, y el aceite de la unción, y el becerro de la expiación, y los dos carneros, y el canastillo de los ázimos;

English

“ Take Aaron and his sons, their garments, the anointing oil, the bull of the sin offering, the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread,

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Summary

Leviticus 8:2 records a command, addressed to Moses, to bring together Aaron, his sons, their garments, the anointing oil, and several sacrificial items (a bull, two rams, a basket of unleavened bread) in preparation for a ritual. The verse consists of a single imperative verb followed by a chain of seven objects.

Key words

kach ("take", H3947) — Qal imperative, 2nd person masculine singular; the sole finite verb of the verse, governing all following objects as a single command.
'et ("", H0853) — untranslatable direct object marker, repeated seven times to introduce each item in the list, giving the sentence its enumerative structure.
par ("bull of", H6499) — masculine singular construct noun, linking to ha-chatat to form "the bull of the sin offering."
chatat ("sin offering", H2403) — feminine singular noun naming the ritual category to which the bull belongs.
she-nei ("two of", H8147) — dual cardinal number in construct state, attaching to ha-'eilim ("the rams") to specify "two of the rams."

What the text says

The Hebrew sentence is built entirely around one imperative, kach ("take", H3947), which governs a series of seven noun phrases, each introduced by the object marker 'et (H0853). This repetition creates a paratactic list rather than a narrative sequence — grammatically, all seven items (Aaron, his sons, garments, oil, bull, rams, basket) are equally direct objects of the same verb, with no subordination between them. Several items appear in construct chains: shemen ha-mishchah ("oil of the anointing", H8081/H4888A), par ha-chatat ("bull of the sin offering", H6499/H2403), she-nei ha-'eilim ("two of the rams", H8147/H0352A), and sal ha-matzot ("basket of the unleavened breads", H5536/H4682). These construct forms tie each object to its defining noun, producing compact phrases where English or Spanish requires additional prepositions ("of the," "for the").

Differences between versions

The Hebrew par (H6499), a general term for a bull or young bull, is rendered as "vitulum" ("calf") in the Vulgate, a narrower term than the Hebrew word suggests. The LXX text given here appears to omit the noun for the animal altogether in "τὸν τὸν περὶ τῆς ἁμαρτίας" ("the [] concerning sin"), leaving only the qualifying phrase without an explicit animal noun where the Hebrew has par ha-chatat. Similarly, the LXX reads "καὶ τοὺς αὐτοῦ" ("and his") without an explicit word for "sons," where the Hebrew has banav ("his sons", H1121A).

This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.