Leviticus 4:18

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Leviticus 4:18 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before Yahweh, that is in the Tent of Meeting; and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before Yahweh, that is in the Tent of Meeting; and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And he shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar which is before the LORD, that is in the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall pour out all the blood at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And he shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar that to the face of Yahweh, which in the tent of meeting. And all the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of the burnt offering, which the entrance of the tent of meeting.

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
    He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before Yahweh, that is in the Tent of Meeting; and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    He is also to put some of the blood on the horns of the altar that is before the LORD in the Tent of Meeting, and he must pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    He is also to put some of the blood on the horns of the altar that is before the LORD in the Tent of Meeting, and he must pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And he shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar which is before the LORD, that is in the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall pour out all the blood at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And he shall put of the blood upon the horns of the altar which is before Jehovah, that is in the tent of meeting; and all the blood shall he pour out at the base of the altar of burnt-offering, which is at the door of the tent of meeting.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And he shall put of the blood upon the horns of the altar which is before the LORD, that is in the tent of meeting, and all the blood shall he pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the tent of meeting.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Also he shall put some of ye blood vpon the hornes of the altar, which is before the Lord, that is in the Tabernacle of the Congregation: then shall he powre all the rest, of the blood at ye foote of the altar of burnt offring, which is at the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation,
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And he shall put of the same blood on the horns of the altar that is before the Lord, in the tabernacle of the testimony: and the rest of the blood he shall pour at the foot of the altar of holocaust, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and `some' of the blood he doth put on the horns of the altar which `is' before Jehovah, which `is' in the tent of meeting; and all the blood he doth pour out at the foundation of the altar of the burnt-offering, which `is' at the opening of the tent of meeting;
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and he puts [some] of the blood on the horns of the altar which [is] before YHWH, which [is] in the Tent of Meeting; and he pours out all the blood at the foundation of the altar of the burnt-offering, which [is] at the opening of the Tent of Meeting;
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    He will put some of the blood on the horns of the altar that is before Yahweh, which is in the tent of meeting, and he will pour out all the blood at the base of the altar for burnt offerings, which is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And he shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar that to the face of Yahweh, which in the tent of meeting. And all the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of the burnt offering, which the entrance of the tent of meeting.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    and he shall put of the blood on the horns of the altar that is before Jehovah which is in the tent of meeting; and he shall pour out all the blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt-offering, which is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before the LORD, that is in the Tent of Meeting; and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And he shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar which is before the LORD, that is in the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall pour out all the blood at the bottom of the altar of the burnt-offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar that stands before the Lord in the Tent of Meeting. Then he is to pour out the rest of the bull's blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And he is to put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before the Lord in the Tent of meeting; and all the rest of the blood is to be drained out at the base of the altar of burned offering at the door of the Tent of meeting.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And he shall put of the blood upon the horns of the altar which is before the LORD, that is in the tent of meeting, and all the remaining blood shall he pour out at the base of the altar of burnt-offering, which is at the door of the tent of meeting.

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יְסוֹד֙
yᵉçôwd
H3247
“foundation of”
Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
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Gender
Masculine
Number
Singular
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Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H3245

TWOT: 875b

foundation, base - foundation - base, bottom
  1. וּמִן min H4480 “and · from” Conjunction + Preposition
  2. הַדָּ֞ם dâm H1818 “the · blood” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  3. יִתֵּ֣ן nâthan H5414 “to give” Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  4. עַל ʻal H5921 “upon” Preposition
  5. קַרְנֹ֣ת qeren H7161 “horns of” Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct
  6. הַמִּזְבֵּ֗חַ mizbêach H4196 “the · altar” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  7. אֲשֶׁר֙ ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
  8. לִפְנֵ֣י pânîym H6440 “to/for · face(s) of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct
  9. יְהוָ֔ה Yᵉhôvâh H3068 “LORD” Noun, Proper
  10. אֲשֶׁ֖ר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
  11. בְּאֹ֣הֶל ʼôhel H168 “in/at · tent of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  12. מוֹעֵ֑ד môwʻêd H4150 “appointed time” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  13. וְאֵ֣ת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
  14. כָּל kôl H3605 “all of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  15. הַדָּ֗ם dâm H1818 “the · blood” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  16. יִשְׁפֹּךְ֙ shâphak H8210 “to pour” Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  17. אֶל ʼêl H413 “to” Preposition
  18. מִזְבַּ֣ח mizbêach H4196 “altar of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  19. הָעֹלָ֔ה ʻôlâh H5930 “the · burnt offering” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  20. אֲשֶׁר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
  21. פֶּ֖תַח pethach H6607 “doorway of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  22. אֹ֥הֶל ʼôhel H168 “tent of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  23. מוֹעֵֽד môwʻêd H4150 “appointed time” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

About this verse

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24
words
18
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is יְסוֹד֙ foundation H3247 — appearing just 20 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

יְסוֹד֙ foundation H3247 occurs in 20 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 2 verbs
  • 15 nouns
  • 3 prepositions
  • 4 particles

Verb forms

  • יִתֵּ֣ן Qal · Imperfect
  • יִשְׁפֹּךְ֙ Qal · Imperfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • הַדָּ֞ם blood H1818 ×2
  • הַמִּזְבֵּ֗חַ altar H4196 ×2
  • בְּאֹ֣הֶל tent H168 ×2
  • מוֹעֵ֑ד appointed time H4150 ×2
  • אֲשֶׁר֙ which H834 ×3

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 53 words from the Hebrew and 60 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 24 Hebrew tokens and 47 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 4:18 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Leviticus 4:7 The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before Yahweh, which is in the tent of meeting; and he shall pour out all the blood of the bull out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Leviticus 4:18 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּמִן הַדָּ֞ם יִתֵּ֣ן עַל קַרְנֹ֣ת הַמִּזְבֵּ֗חַ אֲשֶׁר֙ לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֖ר בְּאֹ֣הֶל מוֹעֵ֑ד וְאֵ֣ת כָּל הַדָּ֗ם יִשְׁפֹּךְ֙ אֶל יְסוֹד֙ מִזְבַּ֣ח הָעֹלָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר פֶּ֖תַח אֹ֥הֶל מוֹעֵֽד

He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before Yahweh, that is in the Tent of Meeting; and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Leviticus 4:18 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ἀπό ὁ αἷμα ἐπιτίθημι ὁ ἱερεύς ἐπί ὁ κέρας ὁ θυσιαστήριον ὁ θυμίαμα ὁ σύνθεσις ὅς εἰμί ἐνώπιον κύριος ὅς εἰμί ἐν ὁ σκηνή ὁ μαρτύριον καί ὁ πᾶς αἷμα ἐκχέω πρός ὁ βάσις ὁ θυσιαστήριον ὁ κάρπωσις ὁ πρός ὁ θύρα ὁ σκηνή ὁ μαρτύριον

And the priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of the incense of composition, which is before the Lord, which is in the tabernacle of witness; and he shall pour out all the blood at the bottom of the altar of whole burnt offerings, which is by the door of the tabernacle of witness.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

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)
    וּמִן דְמָא יִתֵּן עַל קַרְנַת מַדְבְּחָא דִי קֳדָם יְיָ דִי בְּמַשְׁכַּן זִמְנָא וְיָת כָּל דְמָא יֵשׁוֹד לִיסוֹדָא דְמַדְבְּחָא דַעֲלָתָא דִי בִתְרַע מַשְׁכַּן זִמְנָא

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    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)
    וּמִן אַדְמָא יִתֵּן עַל קַרְנַת מַדְבְּחָא דִקְדָם יְיָ דִבְמַשְׁכַּן זִימְנָא וְיַת כָּל אַדְמָא יֵישׁוֹד לִיסוֹדָא דְמַדְבַּח עֲלָתָא דְבִתְרַע מַשְׁכַּן זִימְנָא

    and he shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar that is before the Lord within the tabernacle of ordinance, and all the (residue of the) blood he shall pour out at the foundation of the altar of burnt offering which is at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance.

    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 4:18 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 →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Lev 4:18 And he shall put [some] of the blood upon the horns of the altar which [is] before the LORD, that [is] in the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall pour out all the blood at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which [is at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

Ver. 18. Upon the horns.] {See Trapp on "Lev 4:7"}

At the bottom of the altar.] To set forth the plenty and sufficiency of grace and merit in Christ’s death, for many more than are actually saved by it.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

18. the altar which is before the Lord] The altar of sweet incense, see Lev_4:7.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The altar ... in the tabernacle - i. e. the altar of incense (compare Lev 4:5-7).

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Before the Lord; that is, before the holy of holies, where the Lord was in a more special manner present; namely, the altar of incense, as before, Lev 4:7.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The altar - Of incense: Which is before the Lord - That is, before the holy of holies, where the Lord was in a more special manner present.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

He will put

"The priest will put"

horns of the altar

This refers to the corners of the altar. They are shaped like the horns of an ox. See how you translated this in Leviticus 4:7.

he will pour out all the blood

"he will pour out the rest of the blood"

all the fat from it and burn it

"all the fat from the bull and burn the fat"

translationWords

blood

Yahweh

tent of meeting

burnt offering

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

יסוד מזבח העלה אשר פתח אהל מועד [AND HE SHALL POUR OUT ALL THE BLOOD AT] THE BASE OF THE ALTAR OF THE BURNT-OFFERING WHICH IS AT THE ENTRANCE OF THE APPOINTED TENT — this is the base on the west side, for it was that which was opposite to the entrance of the tent (cf. Zevachim 51a).

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

Lesson kit

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Leviticus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 24 words (18 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is yᵉçôwd (“foundation”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word yᵉçôwd carries the sense “foundation.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. How does Exodus 29:12, which shares the word «foundation», read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “blood” (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. «יִתֵּ֣ן» is a Qal Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  6. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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