Numbers 15:5

וְיַיִן לַנֶּסֶךְ רְבִיעִית הַהִין תַּעֲשֶׂה עַל־הָעֹלָה אוֹ לַזָּבַח לַכֶּבֶשׂ הָאֶחָֽד׃

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Hebrew

וְיַ֤יִן לַנֶּ֙סֶךְ֙ רְבִיעִ֣ית הַהִ֔ין תַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה עַל־הָעֹלָ֖ה א֣וֹ לַזָּ֑בַח לַכֶּ֖בֶשׂ הָאֶחָֽד׃

Greek (Septuagint)

καὶ οἶνον εἰς σπονδὴν τὸ τέταρτον τοῦ εἳν ποιήσετε ἐπὶ τῆς ὁλοκαυτώσεως ἢ ἐπὶ τῆς θυσίας· τῷ ἀμνῷ τῶ ἑνὶ ποιήσεις τοσοῦτο, κάρπωμα, ὀσμὴν εὐωδίας τῷ κυρίῳ.

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

Latin (Vulgate)

et vinum ad liba fundenda ejusdem mensuræ dabit in holocaustum sive in victimam. Per agnos singulos

Spanish

Y prepararán vino para la ofrenda líquida, la cuarta parte de un hin, junto con el holocausto o el sacrificio, por cada cordero.

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

Y de vino para la libación ofrecerás la cuarta parte de un hin, además del holocausto ó del sacrificio, por cada un cordero.

English

With the burnt offering or sacrifice of each lamb, you are to prepare a quarter hin of wine as a drink offering.

✦ What the text says

Summary

Numbers 15:5 specifies the amount of wine required as a libation to accompany the burnt offering or the sacrifice of a single lamb: one quarter of a hin. The verse defines a fixed liquid measure tied to the offering of "the one lamb."

Key words

yayin ("wine", H3196) — masculine singular noun, the substance designated for the libation.
nesekh ("drink offering", H5262) — masculine singular noun with prefixed preposition la- ("for the"), naming the ritual category into which the wine is poured.
revi'it ("the fourth of", H7243) — feminine singular construct ordinal number; being in construct state, it grammatically binds to the following noun hin, producing "a fourth of the hin."
ta'aseh ("you will offer / you will make", H6213I) — qal imperfect, second person masculine singular, expressing a future or ongoing obligation directed at the addressee (a general "you," not marked as plural in this form).
'echad ("one", H0259) — cardinal number, feminine singular in form but modifying ha-keves ("the lamb"); it closes the verse by tying the entire measure specifically to a single lamb.

What the text says

The Hebrew sentence is built around the verb ta'aseh ("you will offer/make," H6213I), which governs the whole clause and is placed after its object phrase — a common Hebrew word order where the object (ve-yayin la-nesekh revi'it ha-hin, "and wine for the drink offering, a fourth of the hin") precedes the verb. The construct chain revi'it ha-hin ("the fourth of the hin") uses the feminine ordinal revi'it (H7243) directly bound to hin (H1969), a fixed liquid unit, so the phrase functions as a single quantitative expression rather than two separate ideas.

The preposition 'al ("with," H5921A) links this drink offering to two alternative sacrificial occasions, ha-'olah ("the burnt offering," H5930A) or la-zevach ("the sacrifice," H2077), joined by 'o ("or," H0176A). The final phrase, la-keves ha-'echad ("for the one lamb," H3532 + H0259), specifies that the quarter-hin measure applies per single lamb, using the cardinal number 'echad (H0259) to mark distributive scope rather than counting a group.

Differences between versions

The LXX adds κάρπωμα, ὀσμὴν εὐωδίας τῷ κυρίῳ ("an offering, a sweet-smelling odor to the Lord"), a phrase not present in the Hebrew text supplied here. The Vulgate renders the measure as ejusdem mensuræ ("of the same measure") rather than explicitly stating "a fourth of the hin," and shifts the verb to third person singular (dabit, "he shall give") where the Hebrew ta'aseh (H6213I) is second person singular ("you will offer").

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