What Does Exodus 13:11 Mean in the King James?
And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee,
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 promise does not stop at arrival: it carries the one being brought into a place that is actually given.
THE MEANING
You are shown a promise with both direction and substance: being brought into a place and receiving what is given belong together. What is sworn does not remain speech alone; it takes the shape of something inhabitable.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that arrival and provision must be self-produced: here, the LORD brings and gives.
THE ROOT
וּנְתָנָהּ
u-netanah
GROWS FROM
נתן
To give, set, or place (natan).
The Hebrew root נתן (natan, “give”) makes the promise concrete: the one who brings you into the land also places it in your hands. The gift is not merely a destination; it is something received.
ALSO GROWS
netinah: Giving; the act of giving.
נְתִינָה
This noun from נתן keeps the act of giving itself visible, echoing the verse’s promise that the land will be given.
nittan: Was given.
נִתַּן
This form from נתן turns attention from the giver to what the receiver receives, showing the other side of the verse’s promised gift.
THE PATTERN
What God promises as inheritance is held as gift before it is possessed.
And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.THE THREAD
The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’s: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.The Hebrew root נתן (natan, “give”) appears in both verses: here, the LORD gives a land; there, the earth is given to humankind. The shared word widens the gift from a particular inheritance to the ground beneath human life.
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