Numbers 29:34
וּשְׂעִיר חַטָּאת אֶחָד מִלְּבַד עֹלַת הַתָּמִיד מִנְחָתָהּ וְנִסְכָּֽהּ׃ פ
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✦ The same verse in five languages
וּשְׂעִ֥יר חַטָּ֖את אֶחָ֑ד מִלְּבַד֙ עֹלַ֣ת הַתָּמִ֔יד מִנְחָתָ֖הּ וְנִסְכָּֽהּ׃ פ
καὶ χίμαρον ἑ ἕνα περὶ ἁμαρτίας, πλὴν τῆς ὁλοκαυτώσεως τῆς διὰ παντός· αἱ θυσίαι αὐτῶν καὶ αἱ σπονδαὶ αὐτῶν.
Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0
Latin (Vulgate)
et hircum pro peccato, absque holocausto sempiterno, sacrificioque ejus et libamine.
además de un macho cabrío como ofrenda por el pecado, aparte del holocausto continuo, con su ofrenda de grano y su ofrenda líquida.
Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)
Y un macho cabrío por expiación: además del holocausto continuo, con su presente y su libación.
Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offering.
✦ What the text says
Summary
The verse specifies one additional offering — a male goat as a sin offering — required beyond the daily continual burnt offering, along with that burnt offering's accompanying grain offering and drink offering.
Key words
- se'ir ("a male goat of", H8163B) — construct form linking this animal directly to its purpose, "goat of [a sin offering]".
- chattat ("a sin offering", H2403H) — feminine singular noun naming the offering category the goat belongs to.
- milleVad (from mi H9006 + le H9005 + vad H0905J, "besides") — a compound preposition marking this goat as an addition beyond what follows.
- 'olat ("[the] burnt offering of", H5930A) — construct form connecting the burnt offering to ha-tamid ("continuity", H8548), producing "the continual burnt offering."
- minchatah ("grain offering", H4503G) + suffix -ah ("its", H9024) — the pronominal suffix ties this grain offering possessively to the burnt offering just named.
What the text says
The Hebrew sentence is built around a construct chain and a prepositional phrase of exclusion. The first unit, se'ir chattat 'echad ("one male goat of a sin offering"), names the newly required animal, with 'echad ("one", H0259) confirming the singular count. The phrase milleVad ("besides", H9006+H9005+H0905J) then signals that this goat is additional to something already established — namely 'olat ha-tamid ("the burnt offering of the continuity/continual"), a construct pair where tamid (H8548) functions almost adverbially to describe the offering's regular, ongoing nature.
The final two nouns, minchatah ("its grain offering", H4503G+H9024) and niskah ("its drink offering", H5262+H9024), both carry feminine singular pronominal suffixes referring back to 'olat (the burnt offering, grammatically feminine). This grammatical linkage shows that the grain and drink offerings are not independent additions but accompaniments specifically tied to the continual burnt offering, distinct from the sin-offering goat mentioned separately at the start of the verse.
Differences between versions
The LXX renders se'ir ("male goat") with chimaron and shifts the syntax so that "their sacrifices and their libations" (plural, referring broadly to offerings) appears rather than the Hebrew's singular suffixed minchatah and niskah tied specifically to the burnt offering. The Vulgate's sacrificioque ejus et libamine ("and its sacrifice and libation") preserves the singular possessive link closer to the Hebrew construction than the LXX's plural formulation.
This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.