Leviticus 9:12

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

He killed the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons delivered the blood to him, and he sprinkled it on the altar round about.

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וַיִּזְרְקֵ֥הוּ

zâraq

H2236

“and · to scatter · him”

Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular

Appears 35× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Exodus 9:8

Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 585

to scatter, sprinkle, toss, throw, scatter abundantly, strew - (Qal) to scatter, sprinkle, toss - (Pual) to be sprinkled

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

13: words
12: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וַיִּזְרְקֵ֥הוּ to scatter H2236 occurs in 33 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

3 verbs
6 nouns
2 prepositions
2 particles

Verb forms

וַיִּשְׁחַ֖ט Qal · Sequential Imperfect
וַ֠יַּמְצִאוּ Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect
וַיִּזְרְקֵ֥הוּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 22 words from the Hebrew and 26 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 13 Hebrew tokens and 19 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

Topical passages linked to Leviticus 9:12 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Ephesians 5:2 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
Leviticus 1:1–17 Yahweh called to Moses, and spoke to him out of the Tent of Meeting, saying,
Leviticus 8:18–21 He presented the ram of the burnt offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.
Ephesians 5:25–27 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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 9:12 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיִּשְׁחַ֖ט אֶת הָעֹלָ֑ה וַ֠יַּמְצִאוּ בְּנֵ֨י אַהֲרֹ֤ן אֵלָיו֙ אֶת הַדָּ֔ם וַיִּזְרְקֵ֥הוּ עַל הַמִּזְבֵּ֖חַ סָבִֽיב

He killed the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons delivered the blood to him, and he sprinkled it on the altar round about.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Leviticus 9:12 Septuagint · lemma form

καί σφάζω ὁ ὁλοκαύτωμα καί προςφέρω ὁ υἱός ἀαρών ὁ αἷμα πρός αὐτός καί προςχέω ἐπί ὁ θυσιαστήριον κύκλος

And he killed the whole burnt offering; and the sons of Aaron brought the blood to him, and he poured it on the altar round about.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, John Gill's Exposition 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)

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.

Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וּנְכֵס יָת עֲלָתָא וְאַמְטִיאוּ בְּנֵי אַהֲרֹן לֵּהּ יָת דְמָא וּזְרָקֵהּ עַל מַדְבְּחָא סְחוֹר סְחוֹר

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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.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וּנְכֵס יַת עֲלָתָא וְאַקְרִיבוּ בְּנֵי אַהֲרן לֵיהּ יַת אַדְמָא וּדְרָקֵיהּ עַל מַדְבְּחָא חֲזוֹר חֲזוֹר

And he killed the burnt offering, and the sons of Aharon brought the blood to him, and he sprinkled it upon the altar round about.

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 9:12 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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Keil & Delitzsch

C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch

The burnt-offering was presented according to the general rule (Lev 1:3-9), as in Lev 8:18-21. המציא (Lev 9:12): to cause to attain; here, and in Lev 9:18, to present, hand over. לנתחיה, according to its pieces, into which the burnt-offering was divided (Lev 1:6), and which they offered to Aaron one by one. No meat-offering was connected with Aaron's burnt-offerings, partly because the law contained in Num 15:2. had not yet been given, but more especially because Aaron had to bring the special meat-offering commanded in Lev 6:13, and had offered this in connection with the morning burnt-offering mentioned in Lev 9:17; though this offering, as being a constant one, and not connected with the offerings especially belonging to the consecration of the priests, is not expressly mentioned.

Keil & Delitzsch — Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (1861–1891) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API. (Old Testament only.)

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(12) And he slew the burnt offering.—As was the order of the sacrifices which Moses brought (see Lev_8:18-21), so here the sin offering is followed by the burnt offering. The ram (see Lev_9:2) which constituted this sacrifice Aaron slew at the north side of the altar (see Lev_1:11), and after the blood had been received into the bowl by his sons who assisted him, and had been handed to him, Aaron sprinkled it around the altar in the same manner as Moses had done before. (See Lev_8:19.)

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

12. delivered] presented A.V. a different Heb. verb here and in Lev_9:13; Lev_9:18 from that in Lev_8:18; Lev_8:22.

sprinkled] threw as in Lev_8:19. So in Lev_9:18.

12–14. The Burnt-Offering is offered as in Lev_8:18-21.

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

And they presented the burnt offering to him,.... After it was cut in pieces, as the ram of the burnt offering was by Moses, Lev 8:20 and so it was done to this, as appears by what follows:

with the pieces thereof, and the head, and he burnt them upon the altar; the Septuagint version is, "he put them on the altar".

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

12. The burnt offering — After they had been brought into a state of acceptance with Jehovah the whole burnt offering, symbolizing entire consecration, was appropriate. See Lev_1:3, note, and Introduction, (5.)

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

his sons gave him the blood

It is implied that the sons caught the blood in a bowl as the blood drained from the animal. The full meaning of this statement can be made explicit. (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)

inner parts

the inner parts - This is the stomach and intestines. See how you translated this in Leviticus 1:9.

translationWords

Aaron

burnt offering

son

blood

altar

head

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)

וימציאו — This signifies handing over and presenting.

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

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

Leviticus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 13 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is zâraq (“to scatter”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word zâraq carries the sense “to scatter.” How does it shape the verse?
Exodus 9:8 shares the word «to scatter» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
The verb «וַיִּשְׁחַ֖ט» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Keil & Delitzsch and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 13 Hebrew ↔ 19 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 16 words in this verse.
12 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 13 words in this verse.