Numbers 28:23

Summary

The verse instructs that the offerings just enumerated are to be presented in addition to the regular morning burnt offering, which itself is identified as the "continual" burnt offering. The sentence closes the list of additional sacrifices by clarifying their relationship to the standing daily offering.

Key words

• milLevad ("besides", H0905J) — a construct noun prefixed with min + le, forming an idiom meaning "apart from, in addition to"; it introduces the phrase that follows as something separate from what is now being commanded.
• 'olat ("burnt offering of...", H5930A) — feminine singular construct, appearing twice, each time opening a construct chain ("burnt offering of the morning," "burnt offering of the continual").
• tamid ("continuity", H8548) — an abstract noun used attributively after 'olat, naming the offering as the "regular/continual" one rather than a one-time act.
• ta'asu ("you will offer", H6213I) — qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine plural, the main verb of the sentence; the imperfect aspect marks an ongoing or repeated future action addressed to a group.
• 'elleh ("these", H0428) — demonstrative pronoun marked by the object particle 'et, referring back to the offerings described in the preceding verses.

What the text says

The Hebrew sentence is built around two construct chains connected by a relative clause. milLevad 'olat haBoqer ("besides the burnt offering of the morning") sets up the exception, and the relative particle 'asher ("which") introduces a clause explaining what that morning offering is: le'olat haTamid — literally "for/belonging to the burnt offering of the continual." The preposition le here marks identity or classification, equating the morning offering with the established continual offering rather than indicating physical direction. Only after this identification does the main clause appear: ta'asu 'et 'elleh ("you will offer these"), placing the verb and its object at the very end of the verse. This word order foregrounds the exception clause (the standing morning sacrifice) before stating the actual command concerning the newly listed offerings, so that "these" ('elleh) is understood as distinct from, and additional to, the tamid.

Differences between versions

The LXX renders the verse as a descriptive phrase — "besides the whole burnt offering of continuance, [which is] through all the morning" — without translating a separate finite verb equivalent to ta'asu or the object 'elleh; the command to "offer these" is not expressed as in the Hebrew. The Vulgate converts the construct noun tamid into an adverb, "semper offeretis" ("you will always offer"), attaching continuity to the verb itself rather than to the noun 'olat, and likewise omits any word corresponding to 'elleh.