He presented the ram of the burnt offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.
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He presented the ram of the burnt offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.
And he brought the ram for the burnt offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.
And he presented the ram of the burnt offering. And Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.
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He presented the ram of the burnt offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.
Then Moses presented the ram for the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head.
Then Moses presented the ram for the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head.
And he brought the ram for the burnt offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.
And he presented the ram of the burnt-offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.
And he presented the ram of the burnt offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.
Also hee brought the ram for the burnt offring, and Aaron and his sonnes put their hands vpon the head of the ramme.
He offered also a ram for a holocaust: and when Aaron and his sons had put their hands upon its head,
And he bringeth near the ram of the burnt-offering, and Aaron and his sons lay their hands on the head of the ram,
And he brings the ram of the burnt-offering near, and Aaron and his sons lay their hands on the head of the ram,
Moses presented the ram for the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.
And he presented the ram of the burnt offering. And Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.
And he presented the ram of the burnt-offering; and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram;
He presented the ram of the burnt offering. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.
And he brought the ram for the burnt-offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.
Moses brought the ram for the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons put their hands on its head.
And he put the male sheep of the burned offering before the Lord, and Aaron and his sons put their hands on its head,
And the ram of the burnt-offering was presented; and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.
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וַֽיִּסְמְכ֞וּ to lean H5564 occurs in 47 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 22 words from the Hebrew and 40 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably longer here. See the side-by-side →
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 12 Hebrew tokens and 23 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.
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Here the Septuagint runs noticeably longer than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 40 words vs World English Bible 22. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
וַיַּקְרֵ֕ב אֵ֖ת אֵ֣יל הָעֹלָ֑ה וַֽיִּסְמְכ֞וּ אַהֲרֹ֧ן וּבָנָ֛יו אֶת יְדֵיהֶ֖ם עַל רֹ֥אשׁ הָאָֽיִל
He presented the ram of the burnt offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί προςἄγω μωυσῆς ὁ κριός ὁ εἰς ὁλοκαύτωμα καί ἐπιτίθημι ἀαρών καί ὁ υἱός αὐτός ὁ χείρ αὐτός ἐπί ὁ κεφαλή ὁ κριός
And Moses brought near the ram for a whole burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. And Moses killed the ram: and Moses poured the blood on the altar round about.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
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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.
וְקָרִיב יָת דִכְרָא דַעֲלָתָא וּסְמָכוּ אַהֲרֹן וּבְנוֹהִי יָת יְדֵיהוֹן עַל רֵישׁ דִכְרָא
(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.
וּקְרֵיב יַת דְכַר עֲלָתָא וּסְמָכוּ אַהֲרן וּבְנוֹי יַת יַד יְמִינֵיהוֹן עַל רֵישׁ דִיכְרָא
And he took the ram for the burnt offering, and Aharon and his sons laid their right hand upon the head of the ram.
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.
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Leviticus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 12 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is çâmak (“to lean”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Leviticus 8:18 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.
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Joseph Benson's Commentary
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale Open Resources
Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
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.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.