What Does Exodus 12:6 Mean in the King James?
And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
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 lamb is held under watch until a fixed day, when the whole gathered community is named as the agent of its slaughter.
THE MEANING
You see the lamb held under guard until a precise day; then the gathered people are named in its slaughter. The verse holds watchfulness and violence together: the keeping has a fixed end, and the act belongs to the whole assembly.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The community is only a passive spectator to the offering; the verse names the whole assembly as its agent.
THE ROOT
מִשְׁמֶרֶת
mishmeret
GROWS FROM
שׁמר
sh-m-r
To guard, watch over, or keep in custody.
The word rendered “keep it up” is mishmeret, a guarded charge, so the holding includes watchfulness and custody. That charge lasts to a named day and then ends in the assembly’s slaughter, holding care and killing in a single sequence.
ALSO GROWS
shamar: To guard or keep watch.
שָׁמַר
This verbal form shows the active watch carried by the lamb’s guarded interval.
shomer: A keeper or watchman.
שֹׁמֵר
This branch gives the custody a responsible watcher, rather than treating the lamb as simply set aside.
mishmar: A guard, watch, or period of custody.
מִשְׁמָר
Like mishmeret, it names keeping as an assigned watch.
קְהַל
qehāl
GROWS FROM
קהל
q-h-l
To gather as an assembly.
The verse names the people as qahal, a gathered assembly, within the phrase “the congregation of Israel.” The doubled communal language makes the slaughter an act assigned to the gathered people, not an isolated individual.
ALSO GROWS
qāhāl: An assembly or gathered community.
קָהָל
This noun names the gathered body that the verse places within the act of slaughter.
qāhal: To assemble or gather.
קָהַל
The verb reveals the gathering action beneath the noun: the people are brought together as the assembly named here.
THE PATTERN
The Passover lamb carries deliverance through a chosen offering whose time and slaughter are made explicit.
Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD’s passover.Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:THE THREAD
And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.Genesis uses שָׁמַר (shamar), “keep” or “guard,” from the same root carried by מִשְׁמֶרֶת (mishmeret) in Exodus. The echo makes the lamb’s interval active custody: it is kept under watch until the slaughter the verse names.
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