Numbers 15:6

אוֹ לָאַיִל תַּעֲשֶׂה מִנְחָה סֹלֶת שְׁנֵי עֶשְׂרֹנִים בְּלוּלָה בַשֶּׁמֶן שְׁלִשִׁית הַהִֽין׃

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Hebrew

א֤וֹ לָאַ֙יִל֙ תַּעֲשֶׂ֣ה מִנְחָ֔ה סֹ֖לֶת שְׁנֵ֣י עֶשְׂרֹנִ֑ים בְּלוּלָ֥ה בַשֶּׁ֖מֶן שְׁלִשִׁ֥ית הַהִֽין׃

Greek (Septuagint)

καὶ τῷ κριῷ, ὃταν ποιῆτε αὐτὸν ἢ εἰς ὁλοκαύτωμα ἢ εἰς θυσίαν, ποιήσεις θυσίαν σεμιδάλεως δύο δέκατα ἀναπεποιημένης ἐν ἐλαίῳ, τὸ τρίτον τοῦ

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

Latin (Vulgate)

et arietes erit sacrificium similæ duarum decimarum, quæ conspersa sit oleo tertiæ partis hin:

Spanish

“‘Si es un carnero, prepararán como ofrenda de grano dos décimas de efa de harina fina mezclada con la tercera parte de un hin de aceite;

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

Y por cada carnero harás presente de dos décimas de flor de harina, amasada con el tercio de un hin de aceite:

English

With a ram you are to prepare a grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of olive oil,

✦ What the text says

Summary

Numbers 15:6 specifies the grain offering that accompanies the sacrifice of a ram: two-tenths (of an ephah) of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil. The verse continues instructions begun in v.4, listing offering quantities scaled by the type of animal presented.

Key words

'Ayil ("ram", H0352A) — masculine singular noun, the animal type that determines the accompanying offering's quantities.
ta'aSeh ("you will offer/make", H6213I) — qal imperfect, second person masculine singular; expresses a future/ongoing obligation directed at the worshiper.
minChah ("grain offering", H4503G) — feminine singular noun naming the category of offering being specified.
beluLah ("mixed", H1101A) — qal passive participle, feminine singular, agreeing with minchah; describes the flour as having undergone mixing (a completed state) rather than commanding an action.
sheliShit ("third of", H7992) — feminine singular ordinal in construct state, syntactically bound to ha-hin ("the hin", H1969), forming "a third of the hin."

What the text says

The Hebrew sentence structure places the offering recipient first: 'o la-'Ayil ("or for the ram") signals this verse continues a series begun earlier, each clause introduced by 'o ("or", H0176A) to distinguish offering amounts by animal. The verb ta'aseh ("you will offer", H6213I) governs the object minchah ("grain offering"), followed by an appositional description: solet ("fine flour", H5560), quantified by shenei 'esronim ("two tenths", H8147+H6241) — a construct chain literally "two of tenths [of an ephah]."

The flour's state is described by belulah ("mixed", H1101A), a passive participle indicating the flour already exists in mixed form combined ba-shemen ("with the oil", H8081) — the passive participle here functions adjectivally rather than as a finite command to mix. The final phrase, shelishit ha-hin ("a third of the hin", H7992+H1969), uses a construct relationship between the ordinal number and the noun hin, a liquid measure, specifying the oil quantity.

Differences between versions

The LXX (Swete) inserts a conditional clause absent from the Hebrew: "ὃταν ποιῆτε αὐτὸν ἢ εἰς ὁλοκαύτωμα ἢ εἰς θυσίαν" ("whenever you offer it either as a whole burnt offering or as a sacrifice"), specifying sacrificial contexts not present in the Hebrew text of v.6 itself. The Hebrew shenei 'esronim ("two tenths") is rendered in the LXX as "δύο δέκατα" ("two tenths"), matching in quantity. The Vulgate's "duarum decimarum" similarly preserves "two tenths," and "tertiae partis hin" corresponds to shelishit ha-hin ("a third of the hin").

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