What Does Deuteronomy 16:6 Mean in the King James?
But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.
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
The place where release is remembered is the place where God chooses to make his nature dwell.
THE MEANING
Your release is remembered where God’s name, his nature, dwells. The verse holds sunset and the going out from constriction together, making departure a threshold held within divine presence.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It dissolves the belief that freedom means being left alone: the place where release is remembered is also where God’s nature dwells.
THE ROOT
לְשַׁכֵּן
leshakken
GROWS FROM
שכן
Dwell, settle; in this form, cause to dwell.
The Hebrew verb says to cause God’s name (שֵׁם, shem: name, nature) to dwell there. The same root names a dwelling and a neighbor, so the chosen place is where God’s nature is present among people, not just a location carrying a label.
ALSO GROWS
shakhan: Dwell, settle.
שָׁכַן
This verb makes the dwelling at the chosen place an active presence.
mishkan: Dwelling place, tabernacle.
מִשְׁכָּן
The dwelling place is formed from the same root as the act of making the name dwell.
shakhen: Neighbor, one who dwells nearby.
שָׁכֵן
The root’s range connects dwelling with nearness among people.
צֵאתְךָ
tsetkha
GROWS FROM
יצא
Go out, emerge.
“camest forth” in this verse is tsetkha. The verse calls the Exodus your going out, then places it at sunset, which Hebrew phrases as כְּבוֹא הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ (kevo hashemesh: as the sun comes in). One movement goes out as another comes in: release is a threshold passage from the constriction named by מִצְרַיִם (Mitzrayim: the two narrows) toward spaciousness.
ALSO GROWS
yatsa: Go out, emerge.
יָצָא
This is the root’s basic movement: departure from the place of constriction.
vayetze: And he went out.
וַיֵּצֵא
The same root marks an actual crossing from inside to outside.
yetsi’ah: Going out, exit.
יְצִיאָה
This noun keeps the root’s movement visible as a passage or departure.
פֶּסַח
pesaḥ
GROWS FROM
פסח
Pass over, spare; the root also carries the sense of limping.
“passover” in this verse is pesaḥ. The feast’s name shares its root with the verb for passing over or sparing, and with a word for a limping person. The root holds both sparing and an uneven step, making release a crossing rather than a static label.
ALSO GROWS
pasach: Pass over, spare.
פָּסַח
This verb shares the root of the feast’s name and names the act at its center.
pisseaḥ: Lame, limping.
פִּסֵּחַ
This branch preserves the root’s bodily image of an uneven step.
THE PATTERN
God’s dwelling becomes present among people, making places of encounter sites of renewal.
And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.THE THREAD
And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.Both verses draw on שכן (shakan: dwell). Deuteronomy names the chosen place as where God’s name is made to dwell; Exodus says the purpose is for God to dwell among the people.
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