Numbers 28:24

Summary

The verse instructs that the food offering described for the festival (fire-offering, pleasing odor) be repeated daily throughout a seven-day period. It specifies that this offering is made in addition to the regular daily burnt offering (tamid) and its accompanying drink offering.

Key words

• ka'Eleh ("like these", H0428) — demonstrative preceded by comparative preposition ka, pointing back to previously described offerings as the pattern to repeat.
• ta'aSu ("you will offer", H6213I) — qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine plural: an ongoing/future action performed by the offerers themselves (active voice).
• lechem / isheh / reyach / nichoach (H3899G, H0801, H7381, H5207) — a chain of nouns in construct state, each one governing the next ("food of a fire-offering of an odor of soothing"), building a single compound description of the offering's nature and effect.
• ye'aSeh ("it will be offered", H6213I) — same verbal root as ta'aSu, but here in niphal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular: passive/impersonal voice, shifting from "you shall do" to "it shall be done."
• nisko ("its drink offering", H5262 + H9023) — construct noun with pronominal suffix "its," linking the libation grammatically to the burnt offering mentioned just before it.

What the text says

The sentence opens with ka'Eleh ("like these") plus ta'aSu ("you will offer"), establishing a repeated action tied to a previously described ritual pattern, performed la.yOm ("for the day") across shiv'At yaMim ("seven of days" — a construct numeral phrase). The offering itself is described through a stacked construct chain — lechem → isheh → reyach → nichoach — where each noun specifies the one before it, culminating in "food of a fire-offering of an odor of soothing," directed la.Yehovah ("to Yehovah").

The second half of the verse shifts grammatical voice: after 'al- ("upon/in addition to") introduces the 'oLat ha.taMid ("burnt-offering of the continuity"), the verb ye'aSeh appears in niphal (passive) rather than repeating the qal active ta'aSu. This shift moves the sentence's focus from the human agents ("you shall offer") to the ritual action itself as something performed impersonally ("it shall be offered"), attaching the seven-day offering to the fixed daily burnt-offering system, closed by ve.nisKo ("and its drink offering").

Differences between versions

The LXX text reads ταῦτα κατὰ ταῦτα ("these things according to these things"), a doubled rendering where the Hebrew has only the single comparative ka'Eleh ("like these"). The Vulgate renders the Hebrew 'al- ("upon/in addition to") the tamid offering as qui surget de holocausto ("which shall arise from the burnt offering"), framing the relationship as one of origin rather than addition, whereas the Hebrew construction more directly indicates the seven-day offering is presented alongside or in addition to the continual burnt offering.