Numbers 29:25

Summary

The verse specifies an additional sacrificial animal — one male goat — designated as a sin offering, explicitly listed as separate from the continual (daily) burnt offering and its accompanying grain and drink offerings.

Key words

• se'ir ("a male goat of", H8163B) — construct form meaning it must combine with the following noun 'izzim to form the phrase "male goat of goats," a standard Hebrew way of specifying the animal type.
• chattat ("a sin offering", H2403H) — feminine singular noun stating the sacrificial category/purpose of the goat just named.
• millevad (from H9006 mi + H9005 le + H0905J vad) — a compound preposition meaning "besides" or "apart from," marking that what follows is additional to, not part of, the sin offering just mentioned.
• tamid ("continuity", H8548) — masculine singular noun modifying "the burnt offering" (via the construct 'olat), indicating this burnt offering is the perpetual/regular one performed continually.
• minchatah ("its grain offering", H4503G) with suffix -ah ("its", H9024) — construct noun with a feminine possessive suffix, linking the grain offering back to the continual burnt offering mentioned just before it.

What the text says

The Hebrew sentence is built as a list of offerings connected through construct chains and possessive suffixes rather than through explicit conjunctions in most places. The sequence begins with se'ir 'izzim 'echad chattat — "one male goat of goats, a sin offering" — establishing the animal and its ritual category. The word milevad ("besides", from H9006, H9005, H0905J) then functions as a hinge, signaling that everything following it is separate from the sin offering just described.

What follows milevad is a chain of construct nouns: 'olat ha-tamid ("the burnt offering of the continuity/continual one"), minchatah ("its grain offering"), and niskah ("its drink offering"). The pronominal suffixes -ah (H9024) on both minchatah and niskah grammatically tie these two offerings back to ha-tamid, the continual burnt offering — meaning the grain and drink offerings belong to that burnt offering, not to the sin offering. This construct-and-suffix structure allows the Hebrew to express multiple layered relationships (offering type, ownership, and exclusion) in a compact string without needing separate connecting words for each element.

Differences between versions

The LXX renders milevad ("besides", H9006/H9005/H0905J) with the Greek πλήν ("except/besides"), matching the sense of separation. However, the LXX phrase αἱ θυσίαι αὐτῶν καὶ αἱ σπονδαὶ αὐτῶν ("their sacrifices and their libations") uses plural pronouns, where the Hebrew minchatah and niskah use singular feminine suffixes ("its grain offering," "its drink offering") tied specifically to the tamid. The Vulgate's sacrificioque ejus et libamine ("and its sacrifice and libation") preserves the singular possessive link to the burnt offering, closer to the Hebrew structure than the LXX's plural rendering.