Numbers 29:18
וּמִנְחָתָם וְנִסְכֵּיהֶם לַפָּרִים לָאֵילִם וְלַכְּבָשִׂים בְּמִסְפָּרָם כַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט׃
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✦ The same verse in five languages
וּמִנְחָתָ֣ם וְנִסְכֵּיהֶ֡ם לַ֠פָּרִים לָאֵילִ֧ם וְלַכְּבָשִׂ֛ים בְּמִסְפָּרָ֖ם כַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט׃
ἡ θυσία αὐτῶν καὶ ἡ σπονδὴ αὐτῶν τοῖς μόσχοις καὶ τοῖς κριοῖς καὶ τοῖς ἀμνοῖς κατὰ ἀριθμὸν αὐτῶν, κατὰ τὴν σύνκρισιν αὐτῶν·
Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0
Latin (Vulgate)
sacrificiaque et libamina singulorum, per vitulos, et arietes, et agnos rite celebrabitis:
junto con las ofrendas de grano y las ofrendas líquidas correspondientes para los toros, los carneros y los corderos, según la cantidad indicada;
Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)
Y sus presentes y sus libaciones con los becerros, con los carneros, y con los corderos, según el número de ellos, conforme á la ley;
along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
✦ What the text says
Summary
The verse specifies that grain offerings and drink offerings must accompany the young bulls, rams, and lambs, with the required quantities matching the number of animals prescribed and following the established ordinance.
Key words
- min.cha.Tam ("grain offering" + "their", H4503G) — construct noun with pronominal suffix, indicating the grain offering belonging to the animals just mentioned in context (bulls, rams, lambs).
- nis.kei.Hem ("drink offerings" + "their", H5262) — masculine plural construct with suffix, paired with the grain offering to form the standard offering set accompanying animal sacrifices.
- mis.pa.Ram ("number" + "their", H4557) — construct noun with suffix, expressing the idea "according to their number," linking the offerings' quantity to the count of animals.
- ka.mish.Pat ("according to the ordinance", H4941I) — preposition ka ("according to") + noun with article, indicating conformity to an established rule or prescribed order.
What the text says
The Hebrew sentence is elliptical, lacking an explicit verb; it functions as a continuation of instructions from the preceding verses, listing what accompanies the sacrificial animals. The core structure pairs two construct nouns — min.cha.Tam ("their grain offering") and nis.kei.Hem ("their drink offerings") — both governed by pronominal suffixes referring back to the animals named later: pa.rim ("young bulls", H6499), ei.Lim ("rams", H0352A), and ke.va.Sim ("lambs", H3532), each preceded by the preposition-article combination la ("for the").
The final two phrases, be.mis.pa.Ram ("by their number") and ka.mish.Pat ("according to the ordinance"), function adverbially, qualifying how the offerings are to be measured and administered. The repetition of construct-plus-suffix constructions (min.cha.Tam, nis.kei.Hem, mis.pa.Ram) creates a tightly bound syntactic chain where each element's referent is anaphoric, pointing to information established in surrounding verses about specific animal counts for this offering day.
Differences between versions
The LXX renders ka.mish.Pat ("according to the ordinance", H4941I) as κατὰ τὴν σύνκρισιν αὐτῶν ("according to their proportion/composition"), a phrase emphasizing measured ratio rather than legal ordinance. The Vulgate translates this same phrase as "rite celebrabitis" ("you shall celebrate duly"), introducing an explicit verb of ritual performance not present in the Hebrew's noun-based construction. The Hebrew text itself contains no finite verb in this verse, relying entirely on nominal constructs, while both the LXX and Vulgate supply grammatical structures (implied copula in Greek; explicit verb in Latin) to complete the sense in their respective target languages.
This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.