Leviticus 4:34

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Leviticus 4:34 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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The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and all the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and all the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar:
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and he shall put on the horns of the altar of the burnt offering. And all its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.

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
    The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and all the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    Then the priest is to take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    Then the priest is to take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar:
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin-offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt-offering; and all the blood thereof shall he pour out at the base of the altar:
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and all the blood thereof shall he pour out at the base of the altar:
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Then the Priest shall take of the blood of the sinne offring with his finger, and put it vpon the hornes of the burnt offring altar, and shall powre al the rest of the blood thereof at the foote of the altar.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and shall touch the horns of the altar of holocaust, and the rest he shall pour out at the foot thereof.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    `And the priest hath taken of the blood of the sin-offering with his finger, and hath put on the horns of the altar of the burnt-offering, and all its blood he poureth out at the foundation of the altar,
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And the priest has taken of the blood of the sin-offering with his finger, and has put [it] on the horns of the altar of the burnt-offering, and he pours out all its blood at the foundation of the altar,
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    The priest will take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar for burnt offerings, and he will pour out all its blood at the base of the altar.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and he shall put on the horns of the altar of the burnt offering. And all its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin-offering with his finger, and put [it] on the horns of the altar of burnt-offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and all the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin-offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt-offering, and shall pour out all the blood of it at the bottom of the altar:
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Then the priest is to take some of its blood with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and pour out the rest of the blood at the bottom of the altar.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And the priest is to take some of the blood of the offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burned offering, and all the rest of the blood is to be drained out at the base of the altar;
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin-offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt-offering, and all the remaining blood thereof shall he pour out at the base of the altar.

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

Origin: from H3245

TWOT: 875b

foundation, base - foundation - base, bottom
  1. וְלָקַ֨ח lâqach H3947 “and · to take” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  2. הַכֹּהֵ֜ן kôhên H3548 “the · priest” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  3. מִדַּ֤ם dâm H1818 “from · blood of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  4. הַֽחַטָּאת֙ chaṭṭâʼâh H2403 “the · sin offering” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  5. בְּאֶצְבָּע֔וֹ ʼetsbaʻ H676 “in/at · finger · his” Preposition + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  6. וְנָתַ֕ן nâthan H5414 “and · to give” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  7. עַל ʻal H5921 “upon” Preposition
  8. קַרְנֹ֖ת qeren H7161 “horns of” Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct
  9. מִזְבַּ֣ח mizbêach H4196 “altar of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  10. הָעֹלָ֑ה ʻôlâh H5930 “the · burnt offering” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  11. וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
  12. כָּל kôl H3605 “all of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  13. דָּמָ֣הּ dâm H1818 “blood · her” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
  14. יִשְׁפֹּ֔ךְ shâphak H8210 “to pour” Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  15. אֶל ʼêl H413 “to” Preposition
  16. הַמִּזְבֵּֽחַ mizbêach H4196 “the · altar” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

About this verse

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17
words
15
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Notable vocabulary

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

Shared distinctive vocabulary

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

Grammatical profile

  • 3 verbs
  • 11 nouns
  • 2 prepositions
  • 1 particle

Verb forms

  • וְלָקַ֨ח Qal · Sequential Perfect
  • וְנָתַ֕ן Qal · Sequential Perfect
  • יִשְׁפֹּ֔ךְ Qal · Imperfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • מִדַּ֤ם blood H1818 ×2
  • מִזְבַּ֣ח altar H4196 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 44 words from the Hebrew and 46 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 17 Hebrew tokens and 33 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 4:34 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.
  • Leviticus 4:25 The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering. He shall pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering.
  • Leviticus 4:30 The priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.
  • Isaiah 42:21 It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.
  • John 17:19 For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
  • Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
  • Romans 8:3 For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
  • Romans 10:4 For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
  • 2 Corinthians 5:21 For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
  • Hebrews 2:10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
  • Hebrews 10:29 How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
  • 1 Peter 1:18–20 knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,
  • 1 Peter 2:24 who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
  • 1 Peter 3:18 Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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

Hebrew Leviticus 4:34 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְלָקַ֨ח הַכֹּהֵ֜ן מִדַּ֤ם הַֽחַטָּאת֙ בְּאֶצְבָּע֔וֹ וְנָתַ֕ן עַל קַרְנֹ֖ת מִזְבַּ֣ח הָעֹלָ֑ה וְאֶת כָּל דָּמָ֣הּ יִשְׁפֹּ֔ךְ אֶל יְס֖וֹד הַמִּזְבֵּֽחַ

The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and all the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Leviticus 4:34 Septuagint · lemma form

καί λαμβάνω ὁ ἱερεύς ἀπό ὁ αἷμα ὁ ὁ ἁμαρτία ὁ δάκτυλος ἐπιτίθημι ἐπί ὁ κέρας ὁ θυσιαστήριον ὁ ὁλοκαύτωσις καί πᾶς αὐτός ὁ αἷμα ἐκχέω παρά ὁ βάσις ὁ θυσιαστήριον ὁ ὁλοκαύτωσις

And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin-offering with his finger, and shall put it on the horns of the altar of whole burnt offerings, and he shall pour out all its blood by the bottom of the altar of whole burnt offering.

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)
    וְיִסַב כַּהֲנָא מִדְמָא דְחַטָאתָא בְּאֶצְבְּעֵהּ וְיִתֵּן עַל קַרְנַת מַדְבְּחָא דַעֲלָתָא וְיָת כָּל דְמַהּ יֵשׁוֹד לִיסוֹדָא דְ מַ דְבְּחָא

    (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)
    וְיִסַב כַּהֲנָא מִן אֲדַם חַטָאתָא בְּאֶצְבְּעֵיהּ וְיִתֵּן עַל קַרְנַת מַדְבְּחָא דְעָלָתָא וְיַת כָּל אַדְמָא יֵישׁוֹד לִיסוֹדָא דְמַדְבְּחָא

    And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt sacrifice, and pour out all the blood at the foundation of the altar.

    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 4:34 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 4:34 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put [it] upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar:

Ver. 34. And the priest shall take.] See upon Lev 4:18.

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.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

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 its blood

"he will pour out the rest of its blood"

He will cut away

Here "He" refers to the person offering the sacrifice.

just as the fat of the lamb is cut away

This can be stated in active form. AT: "just as a person cuts away the fat of the lamb" (See: Active or Passive)

the priest will burn it

"the priest will burn the fat"

offerings of Yahweh made by fire

This can be stated in active form. AT: "burnt offerings for Yahweh" (See: Active or Passive)

will make atonement for him for the sin he has committed

The abstract noun "atonement" can be stated as a verb. AT: "will atone for the sin the person committed" (See: Abstract Nouns)

the man will be forgiven

This can be stated in active form. AT: "Yahweh will forgive the man's sins" (See: Active or Passive)

translationWords

priest

blood

sin offering

burnt offering

lamb

peace offering

Yahweh

fire

atonement

sin

forgive

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

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Leviticus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 17 words (15 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is yᵉçôwd (“foundation”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “foundation” (yᵉçôwd) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  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. «וְלָקַ֨ח» is a Qal Sequential Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  6. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and unfoldingWord translationNotes read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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