Numbers 29:14

וּמִנְחָתָם סֹלֶת בְּלוּלָה בַשָּׁמֶן שְׁלֹשָׁה עֶשְׂרֹנִים לַפָּר הָֽאֶחָד לִשְׁלֹשָׁה עָשָׂר פָּרִים שְׁנֵי עֶשְׂרֹנִים לָאַיִל הָֽאֶחָד לִשְׁנֵי הָאֵילִֽם׃

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✦ The same verse in five languages

Hebrew

וּמִנְחָתָ֔ם סֹ֖לֶת בְּלוּלָ֣ה בַשָּׁ֑מֶן שְׁלֹשָׁ֨ה עֶשְׂרֹנִ֜ים לַפָּ֣ר הָֽאֶחָ֗ד לִשְׁלֹשָׁ֤ה עָשָׂר֙ פָּרִ֔ים שְׁנֵ֤י עֶשְׂרֹנִים֙ לָאַ֣יִל הָֽאֶחָ֔ד לִשְׁנֵ֖י הָאֵילִֽם׃

Greek (Septuagint)

αἱ θυσίαι αὐτῶν σεμίδαλις ἀναπεποιημένη ἐν ἐλαίῳ, τρία δέκατα τῷ μόσχῳ τῷ ἑνὶ τοῖς τρισκαίδεκα μόσχοις, καὶ δύο δέκατα τῷ κριῷ τῷ ἑνὶ ἐπὶ τοὺς δύο κριούς,

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

Latin (Vulgate)

et in libamentis eorum, similæ oleo conspersæ tres decimas per vitulos singulos, qui sunt simul vituli tredecim, et duas decimas arieti uno, id est, simul arietibus duobus,

Spanish

junto con su ofrenda de grano de harina fina mezclada con aceite: tres décimos de efa por cada uno de los trece toros, dos décimos por cada uno de los dos carneros,

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

Y los presentes de ellos, de flor de harina amasada con aceite, tres décimas con cada uno de los trece becerros, dos décimas con cada uno de los dos carneros,

English

along with the grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil with each of the thirteen bulls, two-tenths of an ephah with each of the two rams,

✦ What the text says

Summary

The verse specifies the grain offering (minchah) that accompanies the sacrificial animals of this festival day: fine flour mixed with oil, in fixed proportions calculated per bull and per ram. Each of the thirteen bulls requires three-tenths of an ephah, and each of the two rams requires two-tenths.

Key words

min.cha.Tam ("grain offering", H4503G) — feminine singular construct with the suffix "their" (H9028); it links the flour offering directly to the animals just mentioned, marking a possessive/dependent relationship ("their grain offering").
be.lu.Lah ("mixed", H1101A) — qal passive participle, feminine singular, agreeing with So.let ("fine flour", H5560); the passive form indicates the flour has already undergone the mixing process, describing the state of the offering material rather than an action being performed.
'es.ro.Nim ("tenths", H6241) — masculine plural, used twice (positions 9 and 19) to express the fractional unit of measure (a tenth of an ephah) for each animal category.
la.Par ha.'e.Chad ("for the young bull, the one", H6499/H9009/H0259) — the numeral 'e.Chad ("one", H0259) with the definite article functions distributively, meaning "each single one," setting up the per-unit calculation.
lish.lo.Shah 'a.Sar pa.Rim ("for thirteen bulls", H7969/H6240/H6499) — construct chain combining "three" and "ten" with "bulls" in plural, forming the compound number that specifies the total count of bulls receiving this measure.

What the text says

The Hebrew sentence structure lists the flour offering first as a general description (fine flour mixed with oil), then breaks down the exact quantity required per animal using a repeated distributive pattern: number of tenths + la- preposition + animal + ha-'echad ("the one/each one"). This construction—numeral followed by the definite singular animal with the article—signals that the quantity applies to each individual animal of that type, not to the group as a whole. The same pattern repeats for the bulls (three-tenths each) and the rams (two-tenths each), with the totals (thirteen bulls, two rams) stated via construct numeral chains.

The feminine passive participle be.lu.Lah describes the flour's condition (already mixed with oil) rather than narrating an action, which is typical of ritual prescription texts describing prepared offering materials. The repeated use of 'echad ("one") with the article after each animal noun is the key grammatical device establishing the "per-unit" or distributive reading confirmed by the versions.

Differences between versions

The LXX renders min.cha.Tam ("their grain offering") as αἱ θυσίαι αὐτῶν ("their sacrifices"), using a broader term than the Hebrew's more specific "grain offering." The Vulgate uses "libamentis" ("libations/offerings"), also generalizing rather than specifying flour offering. The distributive sense ("each one") is preserved across all versions (BSB "with each of," RV1909 "con cada uno," Vulgate "per vitulos singulos"), though the Hebrew achieves this through repetition of ha-'echad while the Latin and Greek use adjectival or distributive phrasing.

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