What Does Deuteronomy 15:22 Mean in the King James?
Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
Purity status remains distinct, but it does not divide this meal.
THE MEANING
The clean and unclean eat this food on the same terms. Like gazelle and deer, it belongs to ordinary eating, so a person’s status does not keep them from sharing it.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
That a person marked unclean cannot eat this food alongside a clean person.
THE ROOT
יַחְדָּו
yachdav
GROWS FROM
יחד
to be joined or together
The verse says the clean and unclean eat yachdav: together, without saying their different states become identical. The shared act crosses the boundary while leaving the distinction visible.
ALSO GROWS
yachad: together, jointly
יַחַד
This related form makes the shared participation in the verse audible: both eat the same food.
yachid: only one, solitary
יָחִיד
This related form contrasts with the verse’s shared participation: the meal is not reserved for one person deemed fit to eat.
THE PATTERN
Purity boundaries do not always determine who may share ordinary food.
Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.THE THREAD
Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.This verse repeats the same clean-and-unclean pairing and the same eating verb, יֹאכְלֶנּוּ (yokhlenu), from the root אָכַל (akhal), “eat.” Together, the verses show this shared access as a recurring rule for ordinary food, without either eater’s status needing to change.
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