Ezra 6:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

And whatever they need—young bulls, rams, and lambs for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests who are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּמָ֣ה חַשְׁחָ֡ן וּבְנֵ֣י תוֹרִ֣ין וְדִכְרִ֣ין וְאִמְּרִ֣ין ׀ לַעֲלָוָ֣ן ׀ לֶאֱלָ֪הּ שְׁמַיָּ֟א חִנְטִ֞ין מְלַ֣ח ׀ חֲמַ֣ר וּמְשַׁ֗ח כְּמֵאמַ֨ר כָּהֲנַיָּ֤א דִי־בִירֽוּשְׁלֶם֙ לֶהֱוֵ֨א מִתְיְהֵ֥ב לְהֹ֛ם י֥וֹם ׀ בְּי֖וֹם דִּי־לָ֥א שָׁלֽוּ׃

Transliteration

And what ḥašḥān and bᵉnê tôrîn and diḵrîn and ʾimmᵉrîn for ʿălāwān to ʾĕlāh šᵉmayyāʾ, ḥinṭîn, mᵉlaḥ, ḥămar and mᵉšaḥ, according to mēʾmar the kāhănayyāʾ which in Yᵉrûšlem, lehĕwēʾ mityᵉhēḇ to them day by day that not šālû.

Grammar Details

• *ûmāh*: conjunction + interrogative - and what
• *ḥašḥān*: verb, Peal participle, masculine plural - needed/required
• *bᵉnê*: noun, masculine plural construct - sons of/young of
• *tôrîn*: noun, masculine plural - bulls
• *diḵrîn*: noun, masculine plural - rams
• *ʾimmᵉrîn*: noun, masculine plural - lambs
• *ʿălāwān*: noun, feminine plural - burnt offerings
• *ʾĕlāh*: noun, masculine singular construct - God of
• *šᵉmayyāʾ*: noun, masculine plural, definite - the heavens
• *ḥinṭîn*: noun, masculine plural - wheat
• *mᵉlaḥ*: noun, masculine singular - salt
• *ḥămar*: noun, masculine singular - wine
• *mᵉšaḥ*: noun, masculine singular - oil
• *kᵉmēʾmar*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct - according to statement of
• *kāhănayyāʾ*: noun, masculine plural, definite - the priests
• *lehĕwēʾ*: verb, Peal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - let it be
• *mityᵉhēḇ*: verb, Hitpeel participle, masculine singular - being given
• *yôm bᵉyôm*: adverbial phrase - day by day/daily
• *dî-lāʾ*: relative particle + negative - that not
• *šālû*: verb, Peal perfect, 3rd masculine plural - they cease/neglect

Word Meanings

• *ḥašḥān*: needed/required/necessary
• *bᵉnê tôrîn*: young bulls/bullocks
• *ʿălāwān*: burnt offerings/sacrifices
• *ʾĕlāh šᵉmayyāʾ*: God of heaven/the heavenly deity
• *mēʾmar*: word/statement/request
• *lehĕwēʾ mityᵉhēḇ*: let it be given/must be provided
• *dî-lāʾ šālû*: without fail/not ceasing/with no neglect

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Whatever is needed—young bulls, rams, or lambs for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, as well as wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the request of the priests in Jerusalem—must be provided to them daily without fail.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests which are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail:

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for burnt-offerings to the God of heaven; [also] wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the word of the priests that are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail;

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests which are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail:

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  And yf they haue nede of calues, lambes, or goates for the burntoffrynge vnto ye God of heauen, wheate, salt, wyne and oyle, after the custome of the prestes at Ierusalem, there shalbe geuen them daylie as is acordinge: and se that this be not done necligetly,

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And that which they shall haue neede of, let it be giuen vnto them day by day, whether it be yong bullockes, or rammes, or lambes for the burnt offrings of the God of heauen, wheate, salt, wine, and oyle, according to the appoyntment of the Priestes that are in Ierusalem, that there bee no fault,

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And if they haue neede of calues, rammes, and lambes for the burnt offering of the God of heauen, wheate, salte, wine, and oyle, after the custome of the priestes at Hierusalem, let the same be geuen them dayly without any delay:

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests which [are] at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail:

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  That which they have need of, both young bulls, and rams, and lambs, for burnt offerings to the God of heaven; [also] wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the word of the priests who are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail;

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and what they are needing -- both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs for burnt-offerings to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil according to the saying of the priests who `are' in Jerusalem -- let be given to them day by day without fail,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for burnt-offerings to the God of heaven; `also' wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the word of the priests that are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for burnt-offerings to the God of heaven; [also] wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the word of the priests that are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail;

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And whatever they have need of, young oxen and sheep and lambs, for burned offerings to the God of heaven, grain, salt, wine, and oil, whatever the priests in Jerusalem say is necessary, is to be given to them day by day regularly:

• World English Bible (2000)

  That which they have need of, both young bulls, and rams, and lambs, for burnt offerings to the God of heaven; [also] wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the word of the priests who are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail;

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Whatever is needed– whether oxen or rams or lambs for burnt offerings for the God of heaven or wheat or salt or wine or oil, as required by the priests who are in Jerusalem– must be given to them daily without any neglect,

Referenced Verses

• Lev 1:10 : 10 And if his offering is of the flocks, namely, of the sheep or of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring a male without blemish.
• Lev 2:1-9 : 1 And when anyone offers a grain offering to the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense on it. 2 And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons, the priests; and he shall take from it a handful of the flour and oil, with all the frankincense. And the priest shall burn this memorial portion on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to the LORD. 3 And the remainder of the grain offering shall be for Aaron and his sons; it is most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire. 4 And if you bring a grain offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil. 5 And if your offering is a grain offering baked in a pan, it shall be of fine flour, unleavened, mixed with oil. 6 You shall break it in pieces and pour oil on it; it is a grain offering. 7 And if your offering is a grain offering baked in a frying pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil. 8 And you shall bring the grain offering made of these things to the LORD; and when it is presented to the priest, he shall bring it to the altar. 9 And the priest shall take from the grain offering a memorial portion, and shall burn it on the altar; it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to the LORD. 10 And what is left of the grain offering shall be for Aaron and his sons; it is most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire. 11 No grain offering that you bring to the LORD shall be made with leaven; for you shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering made by fire to the LORD. 12 As for the offering of the firstfruits, you shall offer them to the LORD, but they shall not be burned on the altar for a sweet aroma. 13 And every offering of your grain offering you shall season with salt; you shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your grain offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt. 14 And if you offer a grain offering of your firstfruits to the LORD, you shall offer for the grain offering of your firstfruits green ears of grain dried by the fire, even grain beaten out of full ears. 15 And you shall put oil on it, and lay frankincense on it; it is a grain offering. 16 And the priest shall burn the memorial portion of it, part of the beaten grain, and part of the oil, with all the frankincense; it is an offering made by fire to the LORD.
• Lev 9:2 : 2 And he said to Aaron, Take a young calf for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before the LORD.
• Num 15:4-9 : 4 Then he who offers his offering to the LORD shall bring a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of oil. 5 And you shall prepare a quarter of a hin of wine as a drink offering with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one lamb. 6 Or for a ram, you shall prepare for a grain offering two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil. 7 And for a drink offering you shall offer a third of a hin of wine, as a pleasing aroma to the LORD. 8 And when you prepare a bull for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice in fulfilling a vow, or peace offerings to the LORD: 9 Then he shall bring with the bull a grain offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil. 10 And you shall bring as a drink offering half a hin of wine, as an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD. 11 Thus shall it be done for one bull, or for one ram, or for a lamb or a goat. 12 According to the number you prepare, so shall you do to everyone according to their number. 13 All who are native shall do these things in this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD. 14 And if a stranger lives with you, or whoever is among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD, as you do, so shall he do. 15 One ordinance shall be for you of the congregation and also for the stranger who lives with you, an ordinance forever in your generations: as you are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD. 16 One law and one custom shall be for you and for the stranger who lives with you. 17 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 18 Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land where I bring you, 19 Then it shall be, when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a heave offering to the LORD. 20 You shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough as a heave offering: as the heave offering of the threshing floor, so shall you heave it. 21 Of the first of your dough, you shall give to the LORD a heave offering in your generations. 22 And if you have erred and not observed all these commandments, which the LORD has spoken to Moses, 23 Even all that the LORD has commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day that the LORD commanded Moses, and onward through your generations; 24 Then it shall be, if anything is committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bull for a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD, with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering. 25 And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them; for it is ignorance: and they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice made by fire to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their ignorance: 26 And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger who lives among them; since all the people were in ignorance. 27 And if any soul sins through ignorance, then he shall bring a female goat of the first year for a sin offering. 28 And the priest shall make atonement for the soul that sins ignorantly, when he sins by ignorance before the LORD, to make atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him. 29 You shall have one law for him who sins through ignorance, both for him who is native among the children of Israel and for the stranger who lives among them. 30 But the soul who does anything presumptuously, whether he is native or a stranger, that soul reproaches the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people. 31 Because he has despised the word of the LORD, and has broken His commandment, that soul shall be completely cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.
• Num 28:1-9 : 1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 Command the children of Israel, and say to them, My offering and My bread for My sacrifices made by fire, for a pleasing aroma to Me, shall you be careful to offer to Me in their due season. 3 And you shall say to them, This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer to the LORD; two lambs of the first year without blemish day by day, for a continual burnt offering. 4 The one lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at evening; 5 And a tenth of an ephah of flour for a grain offering, mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil. 6 It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained on Mount Sinai for a pleasing aroma, a sacrifice made by fire to the LORD. 7 And the drink offering thereof shall be the fourth part of a hin for the one lamb: in the holy place shall you cause the strong wine to be poured to the LORD for a drink offering. 8 And the other lamb you shall offer at evening: as the grain offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, you shall offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a pleasing aroma to the LORD. 9 And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year without blemish, and two tenth deals of flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, and the drink offering thereof: 10 This is the burnt offering of every sabbath, beside the continual burnt offering, and its drink offering. 11 And at the beginnings of your months you shall offer a burnt offering to the LORD; two young bulls, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without blemish; 12 And three tenth deals of flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, for one bull; and two tenth deals of flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, for one ram; 13 And a separate tenth deal of flour mixed with oil for a grain offering for one lamb; for a burnt offering of a pleasing aroma, a sacrifice made by fire to the LORD. 14 And their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, and the third part of a hin for a ram, and a fourth part of a hin for a lamb: this is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year. 15 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering to the LORD shall be offered, beside the continual burnt offering, and its drink offering. 16 And on the fourteenth day of the first month is the Passover of the LORD. 17 And on the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten. 18 On the first day shall be a holy assembly; you shall do no servile work therein: 19 But you shall offer a sacrifice made by fire for a burnt offering to the LORD; two young bulls, and one ram, and seven lambs of the first year: they shall be to you without blemish: 20 And their grain offering shall be of flour mixed with oil: three tenth deals shall you offer for a bull, and two tenth deals for a ram; 21 A separate tenth deal shall you offer for every lamb, throughout the seven lambs: 22 And one goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you. 23 You shall offer these besides the burnt offering in the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering. 24 In this manner you shall offer daily, throughout the seven days, the meat of the sacrifice made by fire, of a pleasing aroma to the LORD: it shall be offered besides the continual burnt offering, and its drink offering. 25 And on the seventh day you shall have a holy assembly; you shall do no servile work. 26 Also on the day of the firstfruits, when you bring a new grain offering to the LORD, after your weeks are completed, you shall have a holy assembly; you shall do no servile work: 27 But you shall offer the burnt offering for a pleasing aroma to the LORD; two young bulls, one ram, seven lambs of the first year; 28 And their grain offering of flour mixed with oil, three tenth deals for one bull, two tenth deals for one ram, 29 A separate tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs;
• 1 Chr 9:29 : 29 Others were appointed to oversee the vessels, all the instruments of the sanctuary, the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the frankincense, and the spices.
• Ps 50:9-9 : 9 I will take no bull from your house, nor goats from your folds. 10 For every beast of the forest is Mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills. 11 I know all the birds of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are Mine. 12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you: for the world is Mine, and all its fullness. 13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
• Isa 49:23 : 23 And kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers: they shall bow down to you with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed who wait for me.
• Mark 9:49 : 49 For everyone will be seasoned with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt.
• Exod 29:38-42 : 38 Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: two lambs of the first year, day by day continually. 39 One lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at twilight. 40 With the one lamb shall be one-tenth of an ephah of flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of pressed oil, and one-fourth of a hin of wine as a drink offering. 41 And the other lamb you shall offer at twilight, and you shall offer with it the grain offering and the drink offering, as in the morning, for a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD. 42 This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of meeting before the LORD, where I will meet you to speak with you.
• Lev 1:3-5 : 3 If his offering is a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tent of meeting before the LORD. 4 And he shall put his hand on the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. 5 And he shall kill the bull before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood and sprinkle the blood all around upon the altar that is by the door of the tent of meeting.