Numbers 29:24
מִנְחָתָם וְנִסְכֵּיהֶם לַפָּרִים לָאֵילִם וְלַכְּבָשִׂים בְּמִסְפָּרָם כַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט׃
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✦ The same verse in five languages
מִנְחָתָ֣ם וְנִסְכֵּיהֶ֡ם לַ֠פָּרִים לָאֵילִ֧ם וְלַכְּבָשִׂ֛ים בְּמִסְפָּרָ֖ם כַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט׃
αἱ θυσίαι αὐτῶν καὶ αἱ σπονδαὶ 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)
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 the accompanying grain offerings and drink offerings to be presented together with the bulls, rams, and lambs of this festival day, following the required quantity and the established ordinance.
Key words
- min.cha.Tam ("grain offering", H4503G) — feminine singular construct noun with 3rd person masculine plural suffix ("their"), indicating the grain offering belongs to/accompanies the animals listed.
- nis.kei.Hem ("drink offerings", H5262) — masculine plural construct noun with 3rd person masculine plural suffix, paralleling the grain offering as another category of accompanying offering.
- pa.rim ("young bulls", H6499) — masculine plural noun with prefixed preposition la- ("for the"), marking the recipient category of the offerings.
- mis.pa.Ram ("number", H4557) — masculine singular construct noun with 3rd person masculine plural suffix, meaning "their number," specifying quantity as the governing standard.
- mish.Pat ("ordinance", H4941I) — masculine singular noun with prefixed ka- ("according to the"), indicating conformity to a fixed prescribed rule.
What the text says
The Hebrew sentence has no main verb of its own; it continues the sacrificial instructions from the preceding verse, listing what accompanies the animal offerings. The structure pairs two construct nouns — min.cha.Tam ("grain offering of them") and nis.kei.Hem ("drink offerings of them") — both bearing the same 3rd person masculine plural suffix, which refers back to the animals (bulls, rams, lambs) named later in the verse. This creates a grammatical link: the grain and drink offerings belong to, or are proportioned to, those animals.
The animals themselves — pa.rim ("young bulls"), 'ei.Lim ("rams"), and ke.va.Sim ("lambs") — each appear with the prefixed preposition la-/ha- ("for the"), marking them as the objects for which the accompanying offerings are designated. The phrase be-mis.pa.Ram ("by their number") using the preposition be- ("by/according to") indicates that the quantities of grain and drink offerings correspond proportionally to the number of animals. The final phrase ka-mish.Pat ("according to the ordinance") uses the preposition ka- ("according to/like") to indicate that the entire procedure follows a previously fixed regulation, without specifying the details again — it points back to an established norm.
Differences between versions
The LXX renders min.cha.Tam ("their grain offering," singular construct) as αἱ θυσίαι ("the sacrifices," plural), broadening the term. The Vulgate uses "sacrificia" similarly. Where the Hebrew has ka-mish.Pat ("according to the ordinance," singular abstract term), the LXX reads κατὰ τὴν σύνκρισιν αὐτῶν ("according to their proportion/comparison"), and the Vulgate has "rite celebrabitis" ("you shall celebrate duly"), both shifting the sense from a fixed legal "ordinance" toward comparative proportion or ritual propriety respectively.
This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.