Numbers 29:21
וּמִנְחָתָם וְנִסְכֵּיהֶם לַפָּרִים לָאֵילִם וְלַכְּבָשִׂים בְּמִסְפָּרָם כַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט׃
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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 σὐνκρισιν 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
Numbers 29:21
Summary
The verse specifies that grain offerings and drink offerings accompany the bulls, rams, and lambs of the sacrificial list, with the quantities of these offerings matching the number of animals and following the prescribed ordinance.
Key words
- min.cha.Tam ("their grain offering", H4503G) — feminine singular construct noun with pronominal suffix "their," linking the grain offering directly to the animals mentioned.
- nis.kei.Hem ("their drink offerings", H5262) — masculine plural construct noun with suffix "their," indicating multiple libations tied to the same group of animals.
- pa.rim ("young bulls", H6499) — masculine plural noun, one of three animal categories receiving the accompanying offerings.
- mis.pa.Ram ("their number", H4557) — masculine singular construct noun with suffix "their," specifying that the offerings correspond in quantity to the animals.
- mish.Pat ("ordinance", H4941I) — masculine singular noun preceded by the preposition ka ("according to the"), marking the standard or rule that governs the offerings.
What the text says
The Hebrew sentence is built as a list of construct-suffix pairs: min.cha.Tam ("their grain offering") and nis.kei.Hem ("their drink offerings") both carry the third-person masculine plural suffix "their," pointing back to the animals named afterward — pa.rim ("young bulls", H6499), 'ei.Lim ("rams", H0352A), and ke.va.Sim ("lambs", H3532). Each animal category is introduced by the preposition la ("for the," H9005) with the definite article, marking these as the recipients or occasions for the grain and drink offerings just mentioned.
The phrase be.mis.pa.Ram ("by their number," H4557) uses the preposition be ("by," H9003) attached to a construct noun with suffix, indicating that the quantity of grain and drink offerings is measured against the number of the animals themselves — the offerings scale with how many bulls, rams, and lambs are presented. The final phrase ka.mish.Pat ("according to the ordinance," H4941I) uses ka ("according to the") to introduce a governing standard, without specifying here what that standard's content is; the word H4941I denotes a fixed rule or established pattern that the offerings must follow.
Differences between versions
The LXX renders mish.Pat ("ordinance") with the Greek phrase κατὰ τὴν σὐνκρισιν αὐτῶν ("according to their proportion/composition"), a term describing a compounded mixture or ratio, whereas the Hebrew mish.Pat denotes a legal or customary ordinance without specifying "mixture." The Vulgate uses "rite" ("in the proper manner" or "ritually"), which frames the ordinance as a matter of ceremonial correctness rather than a numerical or compositional standard as the LXX suggests.
This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.