What Does Exodus 12:9 Mean in the King James?
Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
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 obscure “purtenance” is the animal’s interior, and the verse keeps it within the whole meal.
THE MEANING
The verse sets the meal’s preparation precisely: it is not eaten raw or boiled in water, but roasted with fire. Its head, legs, and inward parts belong to the same prepared whole. Even the hidden interior is named alongside what can be seen.
THE ROOT
קִרְבּוֹ
qirbo
GROWS FROM
קרב
To approach or draw near.
The Hebrew word here means the animal’s interior, or inward parts. It shares its root consonants with qerev, “interior” or “midst,” and qorban, an offering brought near: the part the KJV calls “purtenance” belongs to a word family that also carries the language of nearness.
ALSO GROWS
qerev: Interior, inward parts, or midst.
קֶרֶב
It clarifies that the verse names what is inside the animal, not a vague leftover portion.
qorban: Offering, something brought near.
קָרְבָּן
Its shared root links the language of the interior with the language of bringing near.
THE PATTERN
Scripture treats the inward as part of the whole that stands before God.
But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.THE THREAD
But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.The “inwards” here belongs to the same qerev word family as Exodus’s “purtenance,” and both verses name the inward parts beside the legs. Leviticus makes their place unmistakable: they are washed and included in what is burned on the altar.
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