Numbers 8:12

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

And let the leuites put their handes vpo the heedes of the bollockes and then offer them: the one for a synneofferynge and the other for a burntofferynge vnto the Lorde to make an attonement for the leuites.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהַלְוִיִּם֙ יִסְמְכ֣וּ אֶת־יְדֵיהֶ֔ם עַ֖ל רֹ֣אשׁ הַפָּרִ֑ים וַ֠עֲשֵׂה אֶת־הָאֶחָ֨ד חַטָּ֜את וְאֶת־הָאֶחָ֤ד עֹלָה֙ לַֽיהוָ֔ה לְכַפֵּ֖ר עַל־הַלְוִיִּֽם׃

Transliteration

And the ləwiyyim yisməḵû ʾeṯ-yəḏêhem on rōʾš the pārîm, and waʿăśēh ʾeṯ-the one ḥaṭṭāʾṯ and ʾeṯ-the one ʿōlāh to YHWH to ləḵappēr upon the ləwiyyim

Grammar Details

• *ləwiyyim*: proper noun, masculine plural - Levites
• *yisməḵû*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they shall lay/place
• *ʾeṯ*: direct object marker
• *yəḏêhem*: common noun, feminine plural + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their hands
• *rōʾš*: common noun, masculine singular construct - head of
• *pārîm*: common noun, masculine plural - bulls
• *waʿăśēh*: conjunction + Qal imperative, masculine singular - and offer/make
• *ḥaṭṭāʾṯ*: common noun, feminine singular - sin offering
• *ʿōlāh*: common noun, feminine singular - burnt offering
• *YHWH*: proper noun, divine name - LORD/Yahweh
• *ləḵappēr*: preposition + Piel infinitive construct - to make atonement

Word Meanings

• *yisməḵû*: they shall lay/place/lean
• *rōʾš*: head/top/summit
• *pārîm*: bulls/young bulls/bullocks
• *waʿăśēh*: and offer/make/prepare
• *ḥaṭṭāʾṯ*: sin offering/purification offering
• *ʿōlāh*: burnt offering/whole offering/ascending offering
• *ləḵappēr*: to make atonement/cover/expiate

Referenced Verses

• Exod 29:10 : 10 and brynge the oxe before the tabernacle of witnesse. And let Aaro ad his sones put their hades apo his heed
• Lev 1:4 : 4 And let him put his hande apon the heed of the burntsacrifice, and fauoure shalbe geuen him to make an attonemet for hym,
• Lev 8:14 : 14 And the synneoffrynge was brought. And Aaron and his sonnes put their handes apon the heed of the oxe of the synneoffryng.
• Num 8:8 : 8 And let them take a bollocke and his meatofferynge fyne floure myngled with oyle: and another bollocke shalt thou take to be a synneofferynge.
• Heb 9:22 : 22 And almost all thynges are bye the lawe pourged with bloud and with out effusion of bloud is no remission.
• Heb 10:4-9 : 4 For it is vnpossible that the bloud of oxen and of gotes shuld take awaye synnes. 5 Wherfore when he commeth into the worlde he sayth: Sacrifice and offeringe thou woldest not have: but a bodie hast thou ordeyned me. 6 In sacrifices and synne offerynges thou hast no lust. 7 Then I sayde: Lo I come in the chefest of the boke it is written of me that I shuld doo thy will o god. 8 Above when he had sayed sacrifice and offerynge and burnt sacrifices and synne offerynges thou woldest not have nether hast alowed (which yet are offered by the lawe) 9 and then sayde: Lo I come to do thy will o god: he taketh awaye the fyrst to stablisshe the latter. 10 By the which will we are sanctified by the offeringe of the body of Iesu Christe once for all.
• Lev 4:20 : 20 and shall do with his oxe as he dyd wyth the synneoffryngeoxe. And the preast shal make an attonement for them, ad so it shalbe forgeuen them.
• Lev 4:35 : 35 And he shall take awaye all the fatt thereof, as the fatte of the shepe of the peaceoffringes was take awaye. And the preast shall burne it apo the alter for the LORdes sacrifice, and the preast shal make an attonemet for his synne, and it shalbe forgeuen him.
• Lev 5:7 : 7 But yf he be not able to brynge a shepe, then let him brynge for his trespace which he hath synned, two turtyll doues or two yonge pygeons vnto the Lorde one for a synneoffrynge and another for a burntofferynge.
• Lev 5:9-9 : 9 And let him sprinkle of the bloude of the synneofferynge apon the syde of the alter, and let the reste of the bloude blede apon the botome of the alter, and than it is a synneofferynge. 10 And let him offer the seconde for a burntoffrynge as the maner is: ad so shall the preast make an atonement for him for the synne which he hath synned, and it shalbe forgeuen him.
• Lev 8:18 : 18 And he broughte the ram of the burntofferynge, and Aaron ad his sonnes put their handes apon the heed of the ram,
• Lev 8:34 : 34 as they were this daye: eue so the Lorde hath commauded to do, to reconcyle you with all.
• Lev 9:7 : 7 And Moses sayde vnto Aaron: go vnto the alter and offer thy synneofferynge, and make an attonement for the and for the people: and then offer the offerynge of the people and reconcyle them also, as the Lorde comaunded Moses.
• Lev 14:19-20 : 19 Then let the preast offer the synneofferynge, ad make an attonement for him that is clensed for his vnclenesse. And tha let the burntoffrynge be slayne, 20 ad let the preast put both the burntofferynge and the meateoffrynge apo the alter: ad make an attonement for him, ad tha he shalbe cleane.
• Lev 14:22 : 22 ad two turtyll doues or two yonge pygeons which he is able to gett ad let the one be a synneoffrynge and the other a burntoffryng.
• Lev 16:6 : 6 And Aaron shall offer the oxe for his synneoffrynge and make an attonement for him ad for his housse.
• Lev 16:11 : 11 And Aaron shall bringe the oxe of his synoffrynge, ad reconcyle for him selfe ad for his housholde, and kyll him.
• Lev 16:16-19 : 16 ad reconcyle the holy place fro the vnclennesse of the childern of Israel, and from their trespaces ad all there synnes. And so let him doo also vnto the tabernacle of witnesse that dwelleth with them, eue among their vnclennesses. 17 And there shalbe no bodye in the tabernacle of witnesse, when he goeth in to make an attonement in the holy place, vntyll he come out agayne. And he shall make an attonement for him selfe and for his housholde, ad for all the multitude of Israel. 18 Then he shall goo out vnto the alter that stondeth before the Lorde, and reconcyle it, and shall take of the bloude of the oxe and of the bloude of the goote, and put it apon the hornes of the altare rounde aboute, 19 and sprynckle of the bloude apon it with his finger seuen tymes, and clense it, and halowe it fro the vnclennesses of the childern of Israel.
• Lev 16:21 : 21 ad let Aaro put both his handes apon the heede of the lyue goote, and confesse ouer him all the mysdeades of the childern of Israell, and all their trespaces, and all their synnes: and let him put them apo the heed of the goote ad sende him awaye by the handes of one that is acoynted in the wyldernesse.
• Num 6:14 : 14 and he shall brynge his offerynge vnto ye Lord: an he labe of a yere olde without blemysh for a burntofferynge and a she lambe of a yere olde without blemysh for a synofferynge a ram without blemysh also for a peaseofferynge
• Num 6:16 : 16 And the preast shall brynge him before ye Lorde and offer his synofferynge and his burntofferynge