Numbers 29:30

וּמִנְחָתָם וְנִסְכֵּיהֶם לַפָּרִים לָאֵילִם וְלַכְּבָשִׂים בְּמִסְפָּרָם כַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט׃

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Hebrew

וּמִנְחָתָ֣ם וְנִסְכֵּיהֶ֡ם לַ֠פָּרִים לָאֵילִ֧ם וְלַכְּבָשִׂ֛ים בְּמִסְפָּרָ֖ם כַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט׃

Greek (Septuagint)

αἱ θυσίαι αὐτῶν καὶ αἱ σπονδαὶ αὐτῶν τοῖς μόσχοις καὶ τοῖς κριοῖς καὶ τοῖς ἁμνοῖς 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:

Spanish

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;

English

along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.

✦ What the text says

Summary

Numbers 29:30 specifies the accompanying grain offerings and drink offerings for the sacrificial animals (bulls, rams, lambs) of the festival, indicating that quantities must match the number of animals and follow the prescribed regulation.

Key words

min.cha.Tam ("their grain offering", H4503G) — feminine singular construct noun with 3rd person masculine plural suffix; the construct form links it to the animals for which it is offered.
nis.kei.Hem ("their drink offerings", H5262) — masculine plural construct noun with pronominal suffix "their"; plural because multiple libations correspond to multiple animals.
mis.pa.Ram ("their number", H4557) — masculine singular construct noun with suffix; introduces the phrase be-mispatam ("according to their number"), tying offering quantities to animal counts.
ka.mish.Pat ("according to the ordinance", H4941I) — preposition ka ("according to") + noun mishpat ("ordinance/regulation"); closes the verse by invoking a fixed rule governing the proportions.

What the text says

The verse is built almost entirely of construct chains, a Hebrew grammatical pattern where one noun is bound tightly to what follows or to a suffix, expressing possession or association. Min.cha.Tam ("their grain offering") and nis.kei.Hem ("their drink offerings") both carry the 3rd masculine plural suffix Hem/m ("their"), referring back to the sacrificial animals named earlier in the chapter and continued here: pa.rim ("young bulls", H6499), 'ei.Lim ("rams", H0352A), and ke.va.Sim ("lambs", H3532). Each animal category is introduced with the preposition la ("for the"), marking the recipient category for which the grain and drink offerings are designated.

The final two phrases, be-mispatam ("by their number") and ka-mishpat ("according to the ordinance"), function adverbially to modify how the offerings are to be measured — first by the count of the animals themselves, then by an established regulation (mishpat, H4941I). The repetition of proportional language (number matching ordinance) underscores a structured system where quantities of grain and drink offerings are not arbitrary but tied both to how many animals are sacrificed and to a fixed prescriptive standard mentioned elsewhere in the text.

Differences between versions

The LXX renders mishpat ("ordinance", H4941I) with the Greek synkrisin ("standard" or "comparison"), a term about proportional correspondence rather than legal ordinance. The Vulgate uses rite ("duly, according to rite"), emphasizing ritual correctness. The Hebrew mishpat itself denotes a judicial or prescribed regulation, so each version frames the concluding standard slightly differently — legal-prescriptive (Hebrew), proportional (LXX), or ritual (Vulgate) — without contradicting the underlying instruction to match offerings to animal numbers.

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