Numbers 6:14

וְהִקְרִיב אֶת־קָרְבָּנוֹ לַיהוָה כֶּבֶשׂ בֶּן־שְׁנָתוֹ תָמִים אֶחָד לְעֹלָה וְכַבְשָׂה אַחַת בַּת־שְׁנָתָהּ תְּמִימָה לְחַטָּאת וְאַֽיִל־אֶחָד תָּמִים לִשְׁלָמִֽים׃

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Hebrew

וְהִקְרִ֣יב אֶת־קָרְבָּנ֣וֹ לַיהוָ֡ה כֶּבֶשׂ֩ בֶּן־שְׁנָת֨וֹ תָמִ֤ים אֶחָד֙ לְעֹלָ֔ה וְכַבְשָׂ֨ה אַחַ֧ת בַּת־שְׁנָתָ֛הּ תְּמִימָ֖ה לְחַטָּ֑את וְאַֽיִל־אֶחָ֥ד תָּמִ֖ים לִשְׁלָמִֽים׃

Greek (Septuagint)

καὶ προσάξει τὸ δῶρον αὐτοῦ Τυρίῳ, ἀμνὸν ἐνιαύσιον ἄμωμον ἕνα εἰς ὁλοκαύτωσιν, καὶ ἀμνάδα ἐνιαυσίαν ἄμωμον μίαν εἰς ἁμαρτίαν, καὶ κριὸν ἕνα ἄμωμον εἰς σωτήριον,

Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0

Latin (Vulgate)

et offeret oblationes ejus Domino, agnum anniculum immaculatum in holocaustum, et ovem anniculam immaculatam pro peccato, et arietem immaculatum, hostiam pacificam,

Spanish

y presentará su ofrenda a Yehová: un cordero de un año sin defecto para el holocausto, una cordera de un año sin defecto para la ofrenda por el pecado, un carnero sin defecto para el sacrificio de comunión,

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

Y ofrecerá su ofrenda á Jehová, un cordero de un año sin tacha en holocausto, y una cordera de un año sin defecto en expiación, y un carnero sin defecto por sacrificio de paces:

English

and he is to present an offering to the LORD of an unblemished year-old male lamb as a burnt offering, an unblemished year-old female lamb as a sin offering, and an unblemished ram as a peace offering —

✦ What the text says

Summary

Numbers 6:14 specifies the three offerings required from the individual who completes the Nazirite vow: an unblemished year-old male lamb, an unblemished year-old ewe-lamb, and an unblemished ram, each designated for a distinct sacrificial purpose.

Key words

hikRiv ("he will bring near", H7126H) — hiphil (causative) sequential perfect, continuing the narrative chain begun with the vav; the subject causes the offering to approach, i.e., presents it.
korbanO ("his offering", H7133A) — construct noun with pronominal suffix o ("his"), marking the offering as belonging to the one presenting it.
ben-shenaTo ("son of his year", H1121L + H8141) — construct chain literally "son of his year," an idiom for age, describing the male lamb as one year old.
tamim ("unblemished", H8549G) — adjective appearing three times (masculine for the lamb and ram, feminine temimah for the ewe-lamb), agreeing in gender with each animal, marking physical wholeness as a qualifying condition for each offering.
le'olah / lechatat / lishlamim ("for a burnt offering" / "for a sin offering" / "for a peace offering", H5930A / H2403H / H8002) — each preceded by the preposition le ("to/for"), assigning a specific sacrificial category to each animal.

What the text says

The verse is structured as a single main clause introduced by the sequential verb hikRiv ("he will bring near"), governing three coordinated objects joined by ve ("and"). Each object follows the same pattern: an animal noun, an age-construct phrase (ben-shenaTo "son of his year" or bat-shenaTah "daughter of her year"), a numeral ('echad "one" or 'achat "one," matching gender), the adjective tamim/temimah ("unblemished"), and a final prepositional phrase naming the offering's function (le'olah, lechatat, lishlamim). This repeated syntactic template creates a parallel structure that lists three animals for three distinct ritual purposes within one continuous sentence.

The construct phrases ben-shenaTo and bat-shenaTah do not use a separate word for "year-old" but instead literally mean "son of his year" and "daughter of her year," an idiomatic way of expressing age that the Hebrew grammar renders through possessive construct chains rather than an adjectival form. The gender agreement throughout — masculine for the lamb and ram, feminine for the ewe-lamb — is grammatically consistent across the animal noun, numeral, and the adjective tamim/temimah.

Differences between versions

The LXX renders lachaTat ("for a sin offering", H2403H) as εἰς ἁμαρτίαν ("for sin"), a more generic phrasing than the Hebrew's specific sacrificial category term. The LXX also translates Yehovah (H3068G) as Τυρίῳ, a divergence in the divine name's rendering compared to the Hebrew text and the Vulgate's Domino ("to the Lord").

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