Leviticus 8:36

Summary

The verse closes the ordination narrative of Leviticus 8 by stating that Aaron and his sons carried out all the instructions Yehovah had commanded through Moses. It functions as a compliance report, confirming that the preceding ritual actions were performed exactly as directed.

Key words

• i.Ya.'as ("he did", H6213A) — qal narrative verb form; marks a sequential completed action, "and he did/made," continuing the story line of the chapter.
• ba.Nav ("sons", H1121A) — masculine plural construct noun with the suffix v ("his"), forming "and his sons," joined to Aaron as co-subjects of the verb.
• ha.de.va.Rim ("the things/words", H1697I) — masculine plural noun with definite article, preceded by kol ("all", H3605) in construct, giving "all the things/matters."
• tzi.Vah ("he had commanded", H6680) — piel perfect verb, an intensive completed-action form indicating a formal, authoritative command already given.
• be.yad-mo.Sheh ("by the hand of Moses", H3027J + H4872) — construct phrase using yad ("hand") idiomatically to express agency, "through Moses."

What the text says

The sentence is built around a single main verb, i.Ya.'as ("he did", H6213A), which governs a compound subject: 'a.ha.Ron ("Aaron", H0175) and u.va.Nav ("and his sons", H1121A with the suffix "his"). The direct object is introduced by the object marker 'et (H0853, untranslated) and consists of kol-ha.de.va.Rim ("all the things", H3605 + H1697I), a construct chain meaning "all of the matters/words." This object is further specified by a relative clause: 'a.Sher-tzi.Vah Yah.weh ("which Yehovah had commanded", H0834A + H6680 + H3068G), where the piel perfect tzi.Vah marks the command as a prior, completed act relative to the doing described by the main verb.

The final phrase, be.yad-mo.Sheh ("by the hand of Moses", H3027J + H4872), uses the noun yad ("hand") in a construct relationship to express means or agency — the command reached Aaron and his sons through Moses as intermediary. The verse thus places three grammatical layers in sequence: the command's origin (Yehovah), its channel (Moses' "hand"), and its execution (Aaron and sons' action), with the piel perfect of tzi.Vah keeping the command temporally prior to the qal narrative verb i.Ya.'as.

Differences between versions

The LXX renders de.va.Rim ("things/words", H1697I) as logous ("words/matters"), matching the semantic range of the Hebrew noun. The LXX and Vulgate both omit an equivalent for be.yad ("by the hand of", H3027J), rendering it simply as "through Moses" (tō Mōsē; per manum Moysi in the Vulgate actually retains "hand" explicitly, unlike the LXX's plain dative construction).