Numbers 29:11
שְׂעִיר־עִזִּים אֶחָד חַטָּאת מִלְּבַד חַטַּאת הַכִּפֻּרִים וְעֹלַת הַתָּמִיד וּמִנְחָתָהּ וְנִסְכֵּיהֶֽם׃ פ
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שְׂעִיר־עִזִּ֥ים אֶחָ֖ד חַטָּ֑את מִלְּבַ֞ד חַטַּ֤את הַכִּפֻּרִים֙ וְעֹלַ֣ת הַתָּמִ֔יד וּמִנְחָתָ֖הּ וְנִסְכֵּיהֶֽם׃ פ
καὶ χίμαρον ἐξ αἰγῶν ἕνα περὶ ἁμαρτίας ἐξιλάσασθαι περὶ ὑμῶν· πλὴν τὸ περὶ τῆς ἁμαρτίας τῆς ἐξιλάσεως, καὶ ἡ ὁλοκαύτωσις ἡ διὰ παντός, ἡ θυσία αὐτῆς καὶ ἡ σπονδὴ αὐτῆς, κατὰ τὴν σύνκρισιν, εἰς ὀσμὴν εὐωδίας, κάρπωμα κυρίῳ.
Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0
Latin (Vulgate)
et hircum pro peccato, absque his quæ offerri pro delicto solent in expiationem, et holocaustum sempiternum, cum sacrificio et libaminibus eorum.
además de un macho cabrío como ofrenda por el pecado, lo cual es aparte de la ofrenda por el pecado del día de la expiación, del holocausto continuo con su ofrenda de grano, y de sus ofrendas líquidas.
Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)
Un macho cabrío por expiación: además de la ofrenda de las expiaciones por el pecado, y del holocausto continuo, y de sus presentes, y de sus libaciones.
Include one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the sin offering of atonement and the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offerings. The Feast of Tabernacles (Deuteronomy 16:13–17)
✦ What the text says
Summary
Numbers 29:11 specifies the sacrifices for the Day of Atonement (10th day, 7th month): one male goat as a chattat ("sin offering", H2403H), offered in addition to the sin offering associated with the atonement rites, the regular daily burnt offering, its grain offering, and the accompanying drink offerings.
Key words
- se.'ir-'i.Zim ("a male goat of goats", H8163B + H5795) — construct chain naming the animal precisely as a goat from the flock of goats.
- cha.Tat ("a sin offering", H2403H) — appears twice in the verse: first in absolute form describing the goat's function, later in construct form (cha.Tat ha.ki.pu.Rim) linking it to "the atonements."
- mi.le.Vad ("besides", H9006+H9005+H0905J) — a compound of two prepositions plus a construct noun, together functioning as "apart from" or "in addition to," marking that what follows is separate from the goat just mentioned.
- ki.pu.Rim ("atonements", H3725) — masculine plural noun, giving a plural form to what in English is usually rendered as a single abstract concept.
- ta.Mid ("continuity", H8548) — modifies the burnt offering ('o.Lat ha.ta.Mid, "the burnt offering of continuity"), marking it as the standing, repeated offering distinct from this day's special goat.
What the text says
The verse is built as a chain of construct phrases stacked around the compound preposition mi.le.Vad ("besides", H9006+H9005+H0905J). The first unit — se.'ir-'i.Zim 'e.Chad cha.Tat — names one goat and assigns it the function of chattat ("sin offering", H2403H). The preposition then pivots the sentence: everything that follows is declared additional to that goat offering. What follows is itself a construct chain: chattat ("sin offering", H2403H) of ha.ki.pu.Rim ("the atonements", H3725, plural), then 'o.Lat ("burnt offering of", H5930A) ha.ta.Mid ("the continuity", H8548), followed by its grain offering (min.cha.Ta-h, with feminine singular suffix "its") and their drink offerings (nis.kei-Hem, with plural suffix "their"). The pronominal suffixes track back to the burnt offering and its accompanying elements as a set, showing how the grain offering belongs to the one burnt offering while the drink offerings belong to the combined preceding items.
The doubling of the root cha.Tat ("sin offering", H2403H) — once for the single goat, once in construct with "the atonements" — creates a structural distinction between two offerings sharing the same designation but differentiated by what they are attached to.
Differences between versions
The LXX adds an explicit purpose clause, ἐξιλάσασθαι περὶ ὑμῶν ("to atone for you"), and the phrase κατὰ τὴν σύνκρισιν ("according to the ordinance"), neither of which corresponds to a separate word in the Hebrew text given. The Vulgate uses two different Latin terms — "pro peccato" and "pro delicto" — for what the Hebrew renders with the same word chattat (H2403H) both times, and paraphrases chattat ha.kippurim as "quae offerri... solent in expiationem" ("what is customarily offered... for expiation") rather than a direct construct rendering.
This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.