Leviticus 9:16

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

He presented the burnt offering, and offered it according to the ordinance.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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וַיַּקְרֵ֖ב

qârab

H7126

“and · to approach”

Conjunction + Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular

Appears 283× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 12:11

Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 2065

to come near, approach, enter into, draw near - (Qal) to approach, draw near - (Niphal) to be brought near - (Piel) to cause to approach, bring near, cause to draw near - (Hiphil) to bring near, bring, present

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 →

5: words
5: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
2 nouns
1 particle

Verb forms

וַיַּקְרֵ֖ב Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect
וַֽיַּעֲשֶׂ֖הָ Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 12 words from the Hebrew and 13 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 5 Hebrew tokens and 9 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 9:16 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Leviticus 1:1–13 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.
Leviticus 9:12–14 He killed the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons delivered the blood to him, and he sprinkled it on the altar round about.
Hebrews 10:1–22 For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

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.

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Hebrew Leviticus 9:16 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיַּקְרֵ֖ב אֶת הָעֹלָ֑ה וַֽיַּעֲשֶׂ֖הָ כַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט

He presented the burnt offering, and offered it according to the ordinance.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Leviticus 9:16 Septuagint · lemma form

καί προςφέρω ὁ ὁλοκαύτωμα καί ποιέω αὐτός ὡς καταἥκω

And he brought the whole burnt offering, and offered it in due form.

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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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וְקָרֵב יָת עֲלָתָא וְעָבְדַהּ כִּדְחָזֵי

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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)

וּקְרֵיב יַת עֲלָתָא וְעָבְדָהּ כְּהִלְכַת עֲלָתָא דְקָרֵיב אַמְטוּלְתֵיהּ

And they brought the burnt offering, and he performed it after the rite of the burnt offering which he had offered for himself.

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 9:16 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

Lev 9:16-17. The burnt-offering — Which also was offered for the people, as the last-mentioned sin-offering was. Besides the burnt-sacrifice — Which was to be first offered every morning; for God will not have his ordinary and stated service swallowed up by extraordinary.

Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(16) And he brought the burnt offering.—That is, the yearling calf and the lamb (see Lev_9:3), which he offered according to the rites prescribed in Lev_1:3, &c. The same expression “manner,” in the sense of prescribed ritual, also occurs in Lev_5:10, where, like here, it is rendered in the Margin by “ordinance.”

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

16. The Burnt-Offering offered ‘according to the ordinance’ as prescribed in ch. 1, or as in Lev_9:12-14. Cp. Lev_9:10.

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 he brought the meat offering,.... Made of fine flour, with oil and frankincense put upon it, see Lev 2:1.

and took a handful thereof, and burnt it upon the altar; see Lev 2:2.

beside the burnt sacrifice of the morning; the daily morning sacrifice, which was not to be omitted on account of these extraordinary sacrifices, both for the priest and for the people; or "after the burnt sacrifice of the morning"; for no sacrifice was offered up before that: so Jarchi.

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

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Which also was offered for the people, as the last mentioned sin-offering was.

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

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

16. The manner — “Ordinance,” (R.V.) The ritual of the altar prescribed in chaps. 1 and Lev_7:1-6.

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

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The burnt-offering - Which also was offered for the people, as the last mentioned sin-offering was.

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

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

ויעשה כמשפט AND HE DID IT ACCORDING TO THE MANNER that is set forth in the section ויקרא (ch. 1) in respect to the burnt offering brought as a free-will gift (Beitzah 20a).

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 5 words (5 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is qârab (“to approach”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “to approach” (qârab) shape what this verse is saying?
Leviticus 1:1–13 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
The verb «וַיַּקְרֵ֖ב» is Hiphil Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Joseph Benson's Commentary 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 5 Hebrew ↔ 9 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 7 words in this verse.
5 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 5 words in this verse.