Leviticus 1:16

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

He shall remove its crop with its feathers and throw it beside the altar on the east side, into the place for ashes.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהֵסִ֥יר אֶת־מֻרְאָת֖וֹ בְּנֹצָתָ֑הּ וְהִשְׁלִ֨יךְ אֹתָ֜הּ אֵ֤צֶל הַמִּזְבֵּ֙חַ֙ קֵ֔דְמָה אֶל־מְק֖וֹם הַדָּֽשֶׁן׃

Transliteration

wə-hēsîr ʾet-murʾātô bə-nōṣātāh, wə-hišlîḵ ʾōtāh ʾēṣěl ha-mizbēaḥ qēdmâ unto-məqôm ha-dāšěn.

Grammar Details

• *wə-hēsîr*: waw conjunctive + Hiphil perfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he shall remove
• *murʾātô*: noun, feminine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - its crop
• *bə-nōṣātāh*: preposition + noun, feminine singular + 3rd feminine singular suffix - with its feathers
• *wə-hišlîḵ*: waw conjunctive + Hiphil perfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he shall cast/throw
• *ʾōtāh*: direct object marker + 3rd feminine singular suffix - it
• *ʾēṣěl*: preposition - beside/near
• *ha-mizbēaḥ*: noun, masculine singular with definite article - the altar
• *qēdmâ*: noun, feminine singular + directional heh - eastward
• *məqôm*: noun, masculine singular construct - place of
• *ha-dāšěn*: noun, masculine singular with definite article - the ashes

Word Meanings

• *wə-hēsîr*: and he shall remove/take away
• *murʾātô*: its crop/craw/stomach
• *bə-nōṣātāh*: with its feathers/plumage/contents
• *wə-hišlîḵ*: and he shall cast/throw/fling
• *qēdmâ*: eastward/on the east side
• *ha-dāšěn*: the ashes/fat ashes/burnt remains

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes:

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  And he shall remove its crop with its feathers and cast it beside the altar on the east side, by the place of the ashes:

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes:

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  and he shall take away its crop with the filth thereof, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in the place of the ashes:

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes:

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  ad plucke awaye his croppe ad his fethers, ad cast the besyde the alter on the east parte vppo the hepe of asshes,

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  and the croppe of it with the fethers shalbe cast vpon the heape of asshes besyde the altare towarde the east,

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And he shall plucke out his maw with his fethers, and cast them beside the altar on the East part in the place of the ashes.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And he shall plucke away his croppe with his fethers, and cast them besyde the aulter on the east part, in the place of asshes.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes:

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  and he shall take away its crop with its filth, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in the place of the ashes.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and he hath turned aside its crop with its feathers, and hath cast it near the altar, eastward, unto the place of ashes;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  and he shall take away its crop with the filth thereof, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in the place of the ashes:

• American Standard Version (1901)

  and he shall take away its crop with the filth thereof, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in the place of the ashes:

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And he is to take away its stomach, with its feathers, and put it down by the east side of the altar, where the burned waste is put:

• World English Bible (2000)

  and he shall take away its crop with its filth, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in the place of the ashes.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Then the priest must remove its entrails by cutting off its tail feathers, and throw them to the east side of the altar into the place of fatty ashes,

Referenced Verses

• Lev 4:12 : 12 the entire bull he must take outside the camp to a clean place, to the ash heap, and burn it on a wood fire. It must be burned on the ash heap.
• Lev 6:10-11 : 10 It must not be baked with yeast. I have given it to them as their portion from my fire offerings; it is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering. 11 Every male among Aaron's descendants may eat it. It is a perpetual statute for your generations from the LORD’s fire offerings. Anything that touches them shall become holy.
• Lev 16:27 : 27 The bull and goat used for the sin offering, whose blood was brought into the Holy Place to make atonement, must be taken outside the camp. Their hides, flesh, and dung are to be burned up.
• Luke 1:35 : 35 The angel replied to her, 'The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore, the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.'
• Heb 13:11-14 : 11 The high priest brings the blood of animals into the holy places as a sin offering, but the bodies are burned outside the camp. 12 So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through His own blood. 13 Therefore, let us go to Him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace He bore. 14 For here we have no lasting city, but we eagerly seek the city that is to come.
• 1 Pet 1:2 : 2 chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient and sprinkled with the blood of Jesus Christ. May grace and peace be multiplied to you.