Leviticus 14:31

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even such as he is able to afford, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meal offering. The priest shall make atonement for him who is to be cleansed before Yahweh."
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    even such as he is able to afford, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meal offering. The priest shall make atonement for him who is to be cleansed before Yahweh."
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Even such as he is able to get, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meat offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed before the LORD.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    whatever his hand reaches, one a sin offering and one a burnt offering, with the grain offering. And the priest shall make atonement for the person being cleansed to the face of Yahweh.

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    even such as he is able to afford, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meal offering. The priest shall make atonement for him who is to be cleansed before Yahweh."
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, together with the grain offering. In this way the priest will make atonement before the LORD for the one to be cleansed.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, together with the grain offering. In this way the priest will make atonement before the LORD for the one to be cleansed.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Even such as he is able to get, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meat offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed before the LORD.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    even such as he is able to get, the one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering, with the meal-offering: and the priest shall make atonement for him that is to be cleansed before Jehovah.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    even such as he is able to get, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meal offering: and the priest shall make atonement for him that is to be cleansed before the LORD.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Such, I say, as he is able, the one for a sinne offring, and the other for a burnt offring with the meate offring: so the Priest shall make an atonement for him that is to bee clensed before the Lord.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    One for trespass, and the other for a holocaust, with their libations.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    `even' that which his hand reacheth to), the one a sin-offering, and the one a burnt offering, besides the present, and the priest hath made atonement for him who is to be cleansed before Jehovah.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    [even] that which his hand reaches to), one a sin-offering and one a burnt-offering, besides the present, and the priest has made atonement for him who is to be cleansed before YHWH.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, along with the grain offering. Then the priest will make atonement for the one who is to be cleansed before Yahweh.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    whatever his hand reaches, one a sin offering and one a burnt offering, with the grain offering. And the priest shall make atonement for the person being cleansed to the face of Yahweh.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    of what his hand was able to get shall the one be a sin-offering, and the other a burnt-offering, with the oblation; and the priest shall make atonement for him that is to be cleansed before Jehovah.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    of the kind he is able to afford, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meal offering. The priest shall make atonement for him who is to be cleansed before the LORD.”
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    Even such as he is able to get, the one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering, with the meat-offering. And the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed, before the LORD.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, along with the grain offering. This is how the priest will make the person right and clean before the Lord.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And of these, he will give one for a sin-offering and one for a burned offering, with the meal offering; and the priest will take away the sin of him who is to be made clean before the Lord.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    even such as his means suffice for, the one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering, with the meal-offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him that is to be cleansed before the LORD.

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תַּשִּׂ֞יג
nâsag
H5381
“to overtake”
Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
Part of Speech
Verb
Stem
Hiphil
Form
Imperfect
Person
3rd Person
Gender
Feminine
Number
Singular
Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 1422

to reach, overtake, take hold upon - (Hiphil) - to overtake - to reach, attain to, cause to reach - to be able to secure, reach, have enough
  1. אֵ֣ת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
  2. אֲשֶׁר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
  3. יָד֗וֹ yâd H3027 “hand · his” Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  4. אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
  5. הָאֶחָ֥ד ʼechâd H259 “the · one” Particle, Definite Article + Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  6. חַטָּ֛את chaṭṭâʼâh H2403 “sin offering” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  7. וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
  8. הָאֶחָ֥ד ʼechâd H259 “the · one” Particle, Definite Article + Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  9. עֹלָ֖ה ʻôlâh H5930 “burnt offering” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  10. עַל ʻal H5921 “upon” Preposition
  11. הַמִּנְחָ֑ה minchâh H4503 “the · offering” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  12. וְכִפֶּ֧ר kâphar H3722 “and · to atone” Conjunction + Verb, Piel, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  13. הַכֹּהֵ֛ן kôhên H3548 “the · priest” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  14. עַ֥ל ʻal H5921 “upon” Preposition
  15. הַמִּטַּהֵ֖ר ṭâhêr H2891 “the · cleansing” Particle, Definite Article + Verb, Hithpael, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  16. לִפְנֵ֥י pânîym H6440 “to/for · face(s) of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct
  17. יְהוָֽה Yᵉhôvâh H3068 “LORD” Noun, Proper

About this verse

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18
words
14
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

תַּשִּׂ֞יג to overtake H5381 occurs in 47 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 3 verbs
  • 7 nouns
  • 2 adjectives
  • 2 prepositions
  • 4 particles

Verb forms

  • תַּשִּׂ֞יג Hiphil · Imperfect
  • וְכִפֶּ֧ר Piel · Sequential Perfect
  • הַמִּטַּהֵ֖ר Hithpael · Participle Active

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • הָאֶחָ֥ד one H259 ×2
  • עַל upon H5921 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 39 words from the Hebrew and 31 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 18 Hebrew tokens and 21 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Leviticus 14:31 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Leviticus 5:7 "'If he can't afford a lamb, then he shall bring his trespass offering for that in which he has sinned, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to Yahweh; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.
  • Leviticus 14:18 The rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, and the priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Leviticus 14:31 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

אֵ֣ת אֲשֶׁר תַּשִּׂ֞יג יָד֗וֹ אֶת הָאֶחָ֥ד חַטָּ֛את וְאֶת הָאֶחָ֥ד עֹלָ֖ה עַל הַמִּנְחָ֑ה וְכִפֶּ֧ר הַכֹּהֵ֛ן עַ֥ל הַמִּטַּהֵ֖ר לִפְנֵ֥י יְהוָֽה

even such as he is able to afford, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meal offering. The priest shall make atonement for him who is to be cleansed before Yahweh."

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Leviticus 14:31 Septuagint · lemma form

ὁ εἷς περί ἁμαρτία καί ὁ εἷς εἰς ὁλοκαύτωμα σύν ὁ θυσία καί ἐκἱλάσκομαι ὁ ἱερεύς περί ὁ καθαρίζω ἔναντι κύριος

the one for a sin-offering, the other for a whole burnt offering with the meat-offering, and the priest shall make an atonement before the Lord for him that is under purification.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

  1. Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    יָת דִי תַדְבֵּק יְדֵהּ יָת חַד חַטָאתָא וְיָת חַד עֲלָתָא עַל מִנְחָתָא וִיכַפֵר כַּהֲנָא עַל דְמִדַכֵּי קֳדָם יְיָ

    (no public-domain English translation for this verse)

    Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    יַת מַה דִמְסַפְּקָא יְדֵיהּ לְאַיְיתַיָא יַיְתֵי יַת חַד חַטָאתָא וְיַת חַד עֲלָתָא עַל קָרְבַּן מִנְחָתָא וִיכַפֵּר כַּהֲנָא עַל דְמִידְכֵּי קֳדָם יְיָ

    That which his hand was sufficient to bring, let him bring, one for the sin, and one for the burnt offering, with the oblation of the mincha, and let the priest make atonement for him who is to be cleansed before the Lord.

    Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Leviticus 14:31 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

Or, besides the meat offering.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

John Gill's Exposition

And he that owneth the house shall come, and tell the priest,.... As soon as he observes any sign of leprosy in it, or which gives him a suspicion of it:

saying, it seemeth unto me there is as it were a plague in the house; he must not say expressly there is one, how certain soever he may be of it, because the matter must be determined by a priest: so runs the Jewish canon (i), he whose the house is comes and declares to the priest, saying, there appears to me as a plague in the house; and though he is a wise man, and knows that there is a plague certainly, he may not determine, and say, there appears to me a plague in the house, but there appears to me as it were a plague in the house; it looks like one, there is some reason to suspect it.

(i) Misn. Negaim, c. 12. sect. 5. Jarchi in loc.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Trespass. Hebrew, "sin," ver. 19. The Chaldean and Septuagint agree with the original text. (Menochius)

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Lesson kit

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Leviticus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 18 words (14 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is nâsag (“to overtake”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “to overtake” (nâsag) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. How does Genesis 31:25, which shares the word «to overtake», read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “one” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  5. «תַּשִּׂ֞יג» is a Hiphil Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  6. Compare how Geneva Bible (1599) and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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