וַיָּשִׂ֥ימוּ אֶת הַחֲלָבִ֖ים עַל הֶחָז֑וֹת וַיַּקְטֵ֥ר הַחֲלָבִ֖ים הַמִּזְבֵּֽחָה
and they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burned the fat on the altar:
World English Bible · Public Domain
Leviticus 9:20
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Leviticus 9:20 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.
English Translation
and they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burned the fat on the altar:
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
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Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
and they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burned the fat on the altar:
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King James Version Public Domain
And they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burnt the fat upon the altar:
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
they put the fat on the breasts, and he caused the fat portions to become smoke on the altar.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
and they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burned the fat on the altar:
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
and placed these on the breasts. Aaron burned the fat portions on the altar,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
and placed these on the breasts. Aaron burned the fat portions on the altar,
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King James Version Public Domain
And they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burnt the fat upon the altar:
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burnt the fat upon the altar:
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burnt the fat upon the altar:
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
So they layed the fat vpon the breasts, and he burnt the fat vpon the Altar.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
They put upon the breasts. And after the fat was burnt upon the altar,
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and they set the fat on the breasts, and he maketh perfume with the fat on the altar;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and they set the fat on the breasts, and he makes incense with the fat on the altar;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
They took the parts that were cut out and put these on the breasts, and then Aaron burned the fat on the altar.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
they put the fat on the breasts, and he caused the fat portions to become smoke on the altar.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and they put the pieces of fat on the breast-pieces, and he burned the pieces of fat on the altar;
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
and they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burned the fat on the altar.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burnt the fat upon the altar:
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and put them on the breasts. Aaron burned the fat portions on the altar,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
They put the fat on the breasts, and the fat was burned on the altar.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And they put the fat upon the breasts, and he made the fat smoke upon the altar.
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הֶחָז֑וֹת
châzeh
H2373
“the · breasts”
Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- Appears 13× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Exodus 29:26
- Part of Speech
- Particle + Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Plural
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
breast (of animals), breast of an animal sacrifice
- וַיָּשִׂ֥ימוּ sûwm H7760 “and · to put” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- הַחֲלָבִ֖ים cheleb H2459 “the · fat” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- עַל ʻal H5921 “upon” Preposition
- הֶחָז֑וֹת châzeh H2373 “the · breasts” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- וַיַּקְטֵ֥ר qâṭar H6999 “and · to burn incense” Conjunction + Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- הַחֲלָבִ֖ים cheleb H2459 “the · fat” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- הַמִּזְבֵּֽחָה mizbêach H4196 “the · altar · toward” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute + Suffix, Demonstrative
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 →
- 8
- words
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is הֶחָז֑וֹת breast H2373 — appearing just 13 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
הֶחָז֑וֹת breast H2373 occurs in 12 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 4 nouns
- 1 preposition
- 1 particle
Verb forms
- וַיָּשִׂ֥ימוּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- וַיַּקְטֵ֥ר Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- הַחֲלָבִ֖ים fat H2459 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 15 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 8 Hebrew tokens and 14 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
2Topical passages linked to Leviticus 9:20 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Leviticus 3:14–17 He shall offer from it as his offering, an offering made by fire to Yahweh; the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards,
- Leviticus 7:29–34 "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'He who offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to Yahweh shall bring his offering to Yahweh out of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.
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.
καί ἐπιτίθημι ὁ στέαρ ἐπί ὁ στηθύνιον καί ἀναφέρω ὁ στέαρ ἐπί ὁ θυσιαστήριον
And he put the fat on the breasts, and offered the fat on the altar.
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)
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.
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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְשַׁוִיאוּ יָת תַּרְבַּיָא עַל חֶדְוָתָא וְאַסֵק תַּרְבַּיָא לְמַדְבְּחָא
(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.
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Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְשַׁוִיוּ יַת תַּרְבַּיָא עַל חֶדְוָותָא וְאַסֵיק תַּרְבַּיָא לְמַדְבְּחָא
and he laid the fat upon the breast, and burned the fat upon 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.
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 8 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is châzeh (“breast”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word châzeh carries the sense “breast.” How does it shape the verse?
- How does Exodus 29:26, which shares the word «breast», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “fat” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- «וַיָּשִׂ֥ימוּ» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how John Gill's Exposition and Matthew Poole's English Annotations read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 14 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 7 words in this verse.
- “fat” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Leviticus 9:20 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 →
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.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
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.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
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.
Ramban (Nachmanides)
Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman (Ramban / Nachmanides)
Ramban (Nachmanides) on the Tanakh — English translation: “Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.