What Does Exodus 16:19 Mean in the King James?
And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.
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 Hebrew word for “leave” carries the sense of surplus: the verse draws a boundary around what remains over from today.
THE MEANING
You are met within the measure of the day you are living: provision is received for its present need, not held back as a guarantee against tomorrow. The verse names a boundary around carrying surplus beyond its appointed span.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that tomorrow becomes secure only by keeping more than is needed today.
THE ROOT
יוֹתֵר
yōṯēr
GROWS FROM
יתר
y-t-r
To remain over, be left in excess, or be surplus.
The word translated “leave” here is about what remains over, not simply walking away from something. The root connects the verse’s boundary to surplus itself: provision is not carried forward as excess.
ALSO GROWS
yeter: Remainder, excess, or what is left over.
יֶתֶר
This branch makes the verse’s concern with keeping surplus visible.
yitron: Advantage, profit, or surplus.
יִתְרוֹן
The root’s sense of what exceeds the present measure also appears in the language of gain and advantage.
מֹשֶׁה
Mōšeh
GROWS FROM
משה
m-sh-h
To draw out; Moses is associated with “the drawn-out one.”
Moses’s name is linked to מָשָׁה (māšâ), “to draw out,” and Exodus 2:10 explains the name through being drawn out of the water. Here, the drawn-out one is the voice setting a boundary around what remains over.
ALSO GROWS
māšâ: To draw out.
מָשָׁה
This verb gives the name Moses its stated association in Exodus 2:10.
Mōšeh: Moses; the name is explained as “drawn out.”
מֹשֶׁה
The name carries a nature of being brought out, echoing the verse’s attention to what is carried forward or left over.
THE PATTERN
Provision is given within a daily measure, while surplus carried into tomorrow becomes a different kind of keeping.
Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.Give us this day our daily bread.Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.THE THREAD
Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.The Hebrew verb translated “left” here shares the root יתר (y-t-r) with “leave” in verse 19: to remain over or be left in surplus. The next verse shows what happens when what is meant for this day crosses that boundary.
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