Numbers 29:37

מִנְחָתָם וְנִסְכֵּיהֶם לַפָּר לָאַיִל וְלַכְּבָשִׂים בְּמִסְפָּרָם כַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט׃

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✦ The same verse in five languages

Hebrew

מִנְחָתָ֣ם וְנִסְכֵּיהֶ֗ם לַפָּ֨ר לָאַ֧יִל וְלַכְּבָשִׂ֛ים בְּמִסְפָּרָ֖ם כַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט׃

Greek (Septuagint)

αἱ θυσίαι αὐτῶν καὶ αἱ σπονδαὶ αὐτῶν τῷ μόσχῳ καὶ τῷ κριῷ κα τοῖς 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 el toro, el carnero y los corderos, según la cantidad indicada;

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

Sus presentes y sus libaciones con el novillo, con el carnero, 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

This verse specifies the grain offerings and drink offerings accompanying the sacrificial animals of the eighth day: a bull, a ram, and lambs. It closes the list by stating that these offerings follow both a fixed number and a fixed ordinance.

Key words

minchaTam ("their grain offering", H4503G) — construct noun with 3mp suffix ("their"), linking the grain offering to the animals just named.
niskeiHem ("their drink offerings", H5262) — plural construct noun with suffix, paired with the grain offering as the two mandated accompaniments.
Par ("young bull", H6499) and 'Ayil ("ram", H0352A) — both singular, indicating one bull and one ram, distinct from the plural kevaSim ("lambs", H3532) that follows.
mispaRam ("their number", H4557) — construct noun with suffix, referring back to the previously stated count of lambs.
mishPat ("ordinance", H4941I) — singular noun preceded by ka ("according to the"), marking the offerings as conforming to a fixed rule.

What the text says

The verse has no main verb; it is a nominal clause continuing the sacrificial list from the preceding context. The two governing terms, minchaTam and niskeiHem, both carry the 3mp suffix "their," anchoring the grain and drink offerings to the animals enumerated afterward: laPar ("for the bull"), la'Ayil ("for the ram"), and velakkevaSim ("and for the lambs"). The grammatical number is significant — Par and 'Ayil are singular, while kevaSim is plural, mirroring the sacrificial pattern where one bull and one ram are offered alongside multiple lambs.

The final phrase, bemispaRam kammishPat ("according to their number, according to the ordinance"), uses two parallel prepositional constructions (be- and ka-) to state that the quantities of offerings correspond to a fixed count and to an established rule, without specifying the rule's content within this verse itself.

Differences between versions

The Vulgate renders Par and 'Ayil as plural ("vitulos, et arietes"), where the Hebrew and the LXX (τῷ μόσχῳ, τῷ κριῷ) both use singular forms for the bull and the ram. The LXX translates mishPat ("ordinance") as sýnkrisin ("comparison" or "proportion"), a term that frames the concluding clause differently than the Hebrew's sense of a fixed legal or ritual rule.

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