רבינו בחיי — אדם כי יקריב מכם

Q — Why does the first pasuk of the entire korbanos system open "אדם כי יקריב מכם" — and what is gained by placing מכם after the verb instead of after אדם?

A — Rabbeinu Bachya catches the awkward word-order and reads it as a precise theological hedge. Had the pasuk said "אדם מכם כי יקריב" ("a man from among you, when he offers"), the grammar would be ordinary: a person is being identified, and then his action is described. By splitting אדם from מכם, the Torah leaves a residue of meaning that one could almost — almost — read as "אדם כי יקריב מכם": "a person, when one offers *from* you". And that residue is precisely the human-sacrifice misreading that Yirmiyahu denounces (אשר לא צויתי ולא דברתי ולא עלתה על לבי). So the Torah's first word of the korbanos parsha is "אדם" davka — to fix the grammatical role: man is the מקריב, never the קרבן. Word order here is doing theological work, blocking the very confusion that Molech and other cults built their entire practice on.