Numbers 28:8

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 28:8 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 other lamb shall you offer at even: as the meal-offering of the morning, and as the drink-offering of it, you shall offer it, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    The other lamb shall you offer at even: as the meal-offering of the morning, and as the drink-offering of it, you shall offer it, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, thou shalt offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savor unto the LORD.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And you shall do the second male lamb between the evenings. You shall do like the grain offering of the morning and its drink offering, an offering made by fire, an aroma of soothing to Yahweh.

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 other lamb shall you offer at even: as the meal-offering of the morning, and as the drink-offering of it, you shall offer it, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    And offer the second lamb at twilight, with the same grain offering and drink offering as in the morning. It is an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    And offer the second lamb at twilight, with the same grain offering and drink offering as in the morning. It is a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, thou shalt offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savor unto the LORD.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meal-offering of the morning, and as the drink-offering thereof, thou shalt offer it, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meal offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, thou shalt offer it, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And the other lambe thou shalt prepare at euen: as the meate offring of the morning, and as the drinke offering thereof shalt thou prepare this for an offring made by fire of sweete sauour vnto the Lord.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And you shall offer the other lamb in like manner ill the evening according to all the rites of the morning sacrifice, and of the libations thereof, an oblation of most sweet odour to the Lord.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    `And the second lamb thou dost prepare between the evenings; as the present of the morning, and as its libation thou preparest -- a fire-offering, a sweet fragrance to Jehovah.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And you prepare the second lamb between the evenings; as the present of the morning and as its drink-offering, you prepare [it as] a fire-offering of refreshing fragrance to YHWH.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    The other lamb you must offer in the evening along with another grain offering like the one offered in the morning. You must also offer another drink offering with it, an offering made by fire, to produce a sweet aroma for Yahweh.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And you shall do the second male lamb between the evenings. You shall do like the grain offering of the morning and its drink offering, an offering made by fire, an aroma of soothing to Yahweh.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And the second lamb thou shalt offer between the two evenings; [with the] like oblation as that of the morning, and the like drink-offering, shalt thou offer it as an offering by fire of a sweet odour to Jehovah.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    The other lamb you shall offer at evening. As the meal offering of the morning, and as its drink offering, you shall offer it, an offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma to the LORD.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And the other lamb shalt thou offer at evening; as the meat-offering of the morning, and as the drink-offering of it, thou shalt offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Offer the second lamb in the evening before it gets dark, along with the same grain and drink offerings as in the morning. It is a burnt offering acceptable to the Lord.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    Let the other lamb be offered at evening; like the meal offering of the morning and its drink offering, let it be offered as an offering made by fire for a sweet smell to the Lord.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And the other lamb shalt thou present at dusk; as the meal-offering of the morning, and as the drink-offering thereof, thou shalt present it, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.

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נִיחֹ֖חַ
nîychôwach
H5207
“soothing”
Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Common
Gender
Masculine
Number
Singular
State
Absolute
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H5117

TWOT: 1323c

soothing, quieting, tranquillising
  1. וְאֵת֙ ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
  2. הַכֶּ֣בֶשׂ kebes H3532 “the · lamb” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  3. הַשֵּׁנִ֔י shênîy H8145 “the · second” Particle, Definite Article + Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  4. תַּעֲשֶׂ֖ה ʻâsâh H6213 “to do” Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
  5. בֵּ֣ין bêyn H996 “between” Preposition
  6. הָֽעַרְבָּ֑יִם ʻereb H6153 “the · evenings” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Dual, Absolute
  7. כְּמִנְחַ֨ת minchâh H4503 “like/as · offering of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
  8. הַבֹּ֤קֶר bôqer H1242 “the · morning” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  9. וּכְנִסְכּוֹ֙ neçek H5262 “and · like/as · drink offering · his” Conjunction + Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  10. תַּעֲשֶׂ֔ה ʻâsâh H6213 “to do” Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
  11. אִשֵּׁ֛ה ʼishshâh H801 “burnt offering of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  12. רֵ֥יחַ rêyach H7381 “fragrance of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  13. לַיהוָֽה Yᵉhôvâh H3068 “to/for · LORD” Preposition + Noun, Proper

About this verse

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14
words
13
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

נִיחֹ֖חַ soothing H5207 occurs in 43 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 2 verbs
  • 9 nouns
  • 1 adjective
  • 1 preposition
  • 1 particle

Verb forms

  • תַּעֲשֶׂ֖ה Qal · Imperfect
  • תַּעֲשֶׂ֔ה Qal · Imperfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • תַּעֲשֶׂ֖ה to do H6213 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 35 words from the Hebrew and 31 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 14 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.

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 Numbers 28:8 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְאֵת֙ הַכֶּ֣בֶשׂ הַשֵּׁנִ֔י תַּעֲשֶׂ֖ה בֵּ֣ין הָֽעַרְבָּ֑יִם כְּמִנְחַ֨ת הַבֹּ֤קֶר וּכְנִסְכּוֹ֙ תַּעֲשֶׂ֔ה אִשֵּׁ֛ה רֵ֥יחַ נִיחֹ֖חַ לַיהוָֽה

The other lamb shall you offer at even: as the meal-offering of the morning, and as the drink-offering of it, you shall offer it, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Numbers 28:8 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ὁ ἀμνός ὁ δεύτερος ποιέω ὁ πρός ἑσπέρα κατά ὁ θυσία αὐτός καί κατά ὁ σπονδή αὐτός ποιέω εἰς ὀσμή εὐωδία κύριος

And the second lamb you shall offer toward evening; you shall offer it according to its meat-offering and according to its drink-offering for a smell of sweet savor to the Lord.

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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  1. Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וְיָת אִמְרָא תִנְיָנָא תַּעֲבֵיד בֵּין שִׁמְשַׁיָא כְּמִנְחַת צַפְרָא וּכְנִסְכֵּיהּ תַּעְבֵיד קוּרְבַּן דְמִתְקַבֵּל בְּרַעֲוָא קֳדָם יְיָ

    (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)
    וְיַת אִימַר תִּנְיַין תַּעֲבֵיד בֵּינֵי שִׁמְשְׁתָא הֵי כְדוֹרוֹנָא דְצַפְרָא וְהֵי כִנְסוּכֵיהּ תַּעֲבֵיד קָרְבַּן דְמִתְקַבֵּל בְּרַעֲוָא קֳדָם יְיָ

    And the second lamb thou shalt perform between the suns, according to the presentation of the morning, and according to its oblation shalt thou make the offering, that it may be accepted with favour before the Lord

    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 Numbers 28:8 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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Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

The meat offering and drink offering of the evening sacrifice.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

John Gill's Exposition

And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even,.... As before directed, Num 28:4,

as the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, shalt thou offer it; some think that "caph", "as", is put for "beth", "with", the letters being similar, and so render the words, "with the meat offering of the morning, and with the drink offering thereof"; but there is no need of such a version, nor is it with propriety; and the meaning is, that a meat offering and a drink offering were to go with the lamb offered at evening, of the same sort, and in like manner, as were offered with the lamb of the morning:

a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord; this is repeated, to encourage the people to offer it, and to show how very acceptable it was to the Lord, especially the antitype of it.

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

Thou shalt offer it, or, thou shalt offer with it. Or, with the meat offering of the morning, and with the drink offering thereof thou shalt offer it; the letter caph being put for beth, which are alike in Hebrew, and the words are said to be read with beth in some copies.

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

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

ריח ניחח A SMELL OF ניחח — one that causes satisfaction (נחת רוח) to Me, that I gave commands and My will was executed (Sifrei Bamidbar 143:3; see Rashi on Leviticus 1:9).

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.

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Numbers, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 14 words (13 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is nîychôwach (“soothing”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “soothing” (nîychôwach) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. Genesis 8:21 shares the word «soothing» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. “to do” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  4. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  5. The verb «תַּעֲשֶׂ֖ה» is Qal Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
  6. Reading how Geneva Bible (1599) and John Gill's Exposition read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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