Numbers 6:15

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 6:15 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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and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their meal offering, and their drink offerings.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their meal offering, and their drink offerings.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    and a basket of unleavened bread, flour of loaves mixed with the oil and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with the oil; and their grain offering and their drink offerings.

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
    and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their meal offering, and their drink offerings.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    together with their grain offerings and drink offerings—and a basket of unleavened cakes made from fine flour mixed with oil and unleavened wafers coated with oil.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    together with their grain offerings and drink offerings—and a basket of unleavened cakes made from fine flour mixed with oil and unleavened wafers coated with oil.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their meal-offering, and their drink-offerings.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their meal offering, and their drink offerings.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And a basket of vnleauened bread, of cakes of fine floure, mingled with oyle, and wafers of vnleauened bread anointed with oile, with their meate offring, and their drinke offrings:
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    A basket also of unleavened bread, tempered with oil, and wafers without leaven anointed with oil, and the libations of each:
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and a basket of unleavened things of flour, cakes mixed with oil, and thin cakes of unleavened things anointed with oil, and their present, and their libations.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and a basket of unleavened things of flour, cakes mixed with oil, and thin cakes of unleavened things anointed with oil, and their present, and their drink-offerings.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    He must also bring a basket of bread made without yeast, loaves of fine flour mixed with oil, wafers without yeast rubbed with oil, together with their grain offering and drink offerings.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    and a basket of unleavened bread, flour of loaves mixed with the oil and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with the oil; and their grain offering and their drink offerings.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    and a basket with unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their oblation, and their drink-offerings.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil with their meal offering and their drink offerings.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and their meat-offering and their drink-offerings.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    In addition they are to bring a basket of bread without yeast made from the best flour mixed with olive oil and wafers without yeast coated with olive oil as well as their grain offerings and drink offerings.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of the best meal mixed with oil, and thin unleavened cakes covered with oil, with their meal offering and drink offerings.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil, and their meal-offering, and their drink-offerings.

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וּרְקִיקֵ֥י
râqîyq
H7550
“and · wafers of”
Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
Part of Speech
Conjunction + Noun
Type
Common
Gender
Masculine
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Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H7556 in its original sense

TWOT: 2218b

thin cake, wafer
  1. וְסַ֣ל çal H5536 “and · basket of” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  2. מַצּ֗וֹת matstsâh H4682 “unleavened bread” Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute
  3. סֹ֤לֶת çôleth H5560 “fine flour of” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
  4. חַלֹּת֙ challâh H2471 “cakes” Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute
  5. בְּלוּלֹ֣ת bâlal H1101 “mixed” Verb, Qal, Participle Passive, Feminine, Plural, Absolute
  6. בַּשֶּׁ֔מֶן shemen H8081 “in/at the · fat” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  7. מַצּ֖וֹת matstsâh H4682 “unleavened bread” Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute
  8. מְשֻׁחִ֣ים mâshach H4886 “anointed” Verb, Qal, Participle Passive, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  9. בַּשָּׁ֑מֶן shemen H8081 “in/at the · fat” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  10. וּמִנְחָתָ֖ם minchâh H4503 “and · offering · their” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  11. וְנִסְכֵּיהֶֽם neçek H5262 “and · drink offerings · their” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural

About this verse

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12
words
10
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is וּרְקִיקֵ֥י wafer H7550 — appearing just 8 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וּרְקִיקֵ֥י wafer H7550 occurs in 8 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 2 verbs
  • 10 nouns

Verb forms

  • בְּלוּלֹ֣ת Qal · Participle Passive
  • מְשֻׁחִ֣ים Qal · Participle Passive

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • מַצּ֗וֹת unleavened H4682 ×2
  • בַּשֶּׁ֔מֶן fat H8081 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 27 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 12 Hebrew tokens and 20 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

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Topical passages linked to Numbers 6:15 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Exodus 29:2 unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil: you shall make them of fine wheat flour.
  • Leviticus 2:4 "'When you offer an offering of a meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
  • Numbers 15:10 and you shall offer for the drink-offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.
  • Leviticus 8:2 "Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and the bull of the sin offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread;
  • Leviticus 9:4 and an ox and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before Yahweh; and a meal offering mixed with oil: for today Yahweh appears to you.'"
  • Numbers 15:1–7 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
  • Isaiah 62:9 but those who have garnered it shall eat it, and praise Yahweh; and those who have gathered it shall drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.
  • Joel 1:9 The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh's house. The priests, Yahweh's ministers, mourn.
  • Joel 1:13 Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, For the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God's house.
  • Joel 2:14 Who knows? He may turn and relent, And leave a blessing behind him, Even a meal offering and a drink offering to Yahweh, your God.
  • John 6:50–59 This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die.
  • 1 Corinthians 10:31 Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
  • 1 Corinthians 11:26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Numbers 6:15 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְסַ֣ל מַצּ֗וֹת סֹ֤לֶת חַלֹּת֙ בְּלוּלֹ֣ת בַּשֶּׁ֔מֶן וּרְקִיקֵ֥י מַצּ֖וֹת מְשֻׁחִ֣ים בַּשָּׁ֑מֶן וּמִנְחָתָ֖ם וְנִסְכֵּיהֶֽם

and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their meal offering, and their drink offerings.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Numbers 6:15 Septuagint · lemma form

καί κανοῦν ἄζυμος σεμίδαλις ἄρτος ἀναποιέω ἐν ἔλαιον καί λάγανον ἄζυμος χρίω ἐν ἔλαιον καί θυσία αὐτός καί σπονδή αὐτός

and a basket of unleavened bread of fine flour, even loaves kneaded with oil, and unleavened cakes anointed with oil, and their meat-offering, and their drink-offering.

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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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.

  1. Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וְסַלָא דְפַּטִרִיָא סֻלְּתָּא גְרִיצַן דְפִילָן בִּמְשַׁח וְאִסְפּוֹגִין פַּטִירִין דִמְשִׁיחִין בִּמְשָׁח וּמִנְחַתְהוֹן וְנִסְכֵּיהוֹן

    (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)
    וְסַלָא דְפַטִירֵי סְמִידָא גְרִיצָן בִּמְשַׁח זֵיתָא וְעֵרוּכִין פַּטִירִין דִמְשִׁיחִין בִּמְשַׁח זֵיתָא וּמִנְחַתְהוֹן וְנִסְכֵּיהוֹן

    and a basket of unleavened cakes of flour with olive oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with olive oil, their minchas and libations.

    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 6:15 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 →

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(15) And their meat offering, and their drink offerings.—i.e., the offerings of fine flour and oil and wine which belonged to the burnt-offerings and the peace-offerings (Num_15:3, &c.).

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And the priest shall bring them before the Lord,.... All the above offerings to the altar of burnt offering, and there present them to the Lord in the name of the Nazarite:

and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering: here they stand in the proper order in which they were offered.

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

Such as did generally accompany the sacrifices; of which see Lev 2:1; Num 28.

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

15. Their meat offering — See Leviticus ii, notes. The possessive “their” indicates that the meat offering and drink offering were not independent, but appendages to the preceding offerings, especially to the peace offering. Lev_7:12. The drink offerings symbolized gladness. For their nature see Lev_23:13, note.

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

A basket of unleavened bread... anointed with oil. Required for every sacrifice of thanksgiving, as this was. (Lev_7:12) And their meat offering, and their drink offerings, i.e., the gifts of meal, oil, and wine which belonged to burnt offerings and peace offerings. (see below, Num_15:3, sqq.)

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

Their meal-offering - Such as generally accompanied the sacrifices.

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

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

ומנחתם ונסכיהם AND THEIR MEAL-OFFERING AND THEIR DRINK-OFFERINGS — i.e., those of the burnt-offering and the feast-offerings (mentioned in v. 14; no חטאת except that of a leper requires נסכים). Because these (the עולה and the שלמים of the Nazir) are included in (come under) the general rule governing עולה and שלמים and have here been excepted to become subject to a new matter, viz., that they require an offering of bread together with them. Scripture restores them to the general rule by expressly stating that they require drink-offerings (and meal-offerings) as is the law of עולה and שלמים in general (Sifrei Bamidbar 34).

חלות מצות ורקיקי מצות (the word מצות must be connected with חלות too) PIERCED CAKES UNLEAVENED AND WAFERS OF UNLEAVENED BREAD — ten of each kind (Menachot 77b).

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

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Numbers, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 12 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is râqîyq (“wafer”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “wafer” (râqîyq) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. Exodus 29:2 shares the word «wafer» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. “unleavened” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  4. 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?
  5. The verb «בְּלוּלֹ֣ת» is Qal Participle Passive. How does its form color the action?
  6. Reading how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and John Gill's Exposition read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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