Numbers 28:14

וְנִסְכֵּיהֶם חֲצִי הַהִין יִהְיֶה לַפָּר וּשְׁלִישִׁת הַהִין לָאַיִל וּרְבִיעִת הַהִין לַכֶּבֶשׂ יָיִן זֹאת עֹלַת חֹדֶשׁ בְּחָדְשׁוֹ לְחָדְשֵׁי הַשָּׁנָֽה׃

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Hebrew

וְנִסְכֵּיהֶ֗ם חֲצִ֣י הַהִין֩ יִהְיֶ֨ה לַפָּ֜ר וּשְׁלִישִׁ֧ת הַהִ֣ין לָאַ֗יִל וּרְבִיעִ֥ת הַהִ֛ין לַכֶּ֖בֶשׂ יָ֑יִן זֹ֣את עֹלַ֥ת חֹ֙דֶשׁ֙ בְּחָדְשׁ֔וֹ לְחָדְשֵׁ֖י הַשָּׁנָֽה׃

Greek (Septuagint)

ἡ σπονδὴ αὐτῶν τὸ ἥμισυ τοῦ εἵν ἔσται τῷ μόσχῳ τῷ ἑνί, καὶ τὸ τρίτον τοῦ εἴν ἔσται τῷ κριῷ τῷ ἑνί, καὶ τὸ τέταρτον τοῦ εἴν ἔσται τῷ ἀμνῷ τῶ ἑνὶ οἴνου· τοῦτο ὁλοκαύτωμα μῆνα ἐκ μηνὸς εἰς τοὺς μῆνας τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ.

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

Latin (Vulgate)

Libamenta autem vini, quæ per singulas fundenda sunt victimas, ista erunt: media pars hin per singulos vitulos, tertia per arietem, quarta per agnum. Hoc erit holocaustum per omnes menses, qui sibi anno vertente succedunt.

Spanish

Las ofrendas líquidas que los acompañarán serán: medio hin de vino por cada toro, un tercio de hin por el carnero, y un cuarto de hin por cada cordero. Este es el holocausto mensual que se hará todos los meses del año.

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

Y sus libaciones de vino, medio hin con cada becerro, y el tercio de un hin con cada carnero, y la cuarta de un hin con cada cordero. Este es el holocausto de cada mes por todos los meses del año.

English

Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine with each bull, a third of a hin with the ram, and a quarter hin with each lamb. This is the monthly burnt offering to be made at each new moon throughout the year.

✦ What the text says

Summary

Numbers 28:14 specifies the quantities of wine to be poured out as drink offerings (nesakim) accompanying each animal of the monthly burnt offering: half a hin for the bull, a third of a hin for the ram, and a quarter hin for the lamb. The verse closes by identifying this entire offering as the fixed burnt offering for each new month throughout the year.

Key words

nis.kei.Hem ("their drink offerings", H5262) — masculine plural construct noun with 3mp suffix, opening the verse by naming the category of libations being quantified.
cha.Tzi ("half of", H2677) — construct noun indicating a fractional portion of ha.Hin ("the hin", H1969), the unit of liquid measure.
she.li.Shit ("third of", H7992) — feminine singular construct ordinal, specifying the fraction of the hin allotted to the ram.
re.vi.'It ("fourth of", H7243) — feminine singular construct ordinal, specifying the smallest fraction, for the lamb.
'o.Lat ("burnt offering of", H5930A) — feminine singular construct noun linking the demonstrative zot ("this", H2063) to cho.desh ("a month", H2320G), naming the whole preceding instruction as "the burnt offering of a month."

What the text says

The Hebrew sentence structure builds a list through construct chains: each fraction (cha.Tzi, she.li.Shit, re.vi.'It) is grammatically bound to ha.Hin, "the hin," producing the pattern "half of the hin," "third of the hin," "fourth of the hin." Each fraction-hin unit is then assigned to its animal using the preposition la. ("for the") attached to Par ("young bull", H6499), 'A.yil ("ram", H0352A), and Ke.ves ("lamb", H3532) in sequence. The verb yih.Yeh ("it will belong", H1961), a qal imperfect, appears once early in the verse and governs the assignment for the bull explicitly, while the subsequent clauses for the ram and lamb rely on the same verbal force being understood, a common ellipsis in Hebrew lists.

The closing formula uses zot ("this") pointing back to the whole preceding set of instructions, followed by the construct phrase 'o.Lat cho.desh ("burnt offering of a month"). This is further specified by be.cha.de.Sh.o ("in its month", H2320G with 3ms suffix) and le.cha.de.Shei ha.sha.Nah ("for the months of the year", H2320G plural construct + H8141), a repetitive construction emphasizing recurrence — the offering repeats identically in each month across the yearly cycle.

Differences between versions

The LXX renders la.'A.yil ("for the ram") with the added specification τῷ κριῷ τῷ ἑνί ("for the one ram") and similarly τῷ ἀμνῷ τῷ ἑνί for the lamb, adding the numeral "one" not present as a separate lexical item in the Hebrew construct chain, though the Hebrew itself treats each animal in the singular. The Vulgate groups the fractions differently, rendering chatzi ha-Hin as "media pars hin per singulos vitulos" ("half a hin for each bull"), using the plural "vitulos" where the Hebrew Par is singular, and structures the wine measures as a general heading before listing the animals, differing from the Hebrew's animal-by-animal construct pattern.

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