What Does Exodus 19:7 Mean in the King James?
And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him.
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 one drawn out of the water now brings the LORD’s words into the open, where the community can face them together.
THE MEANING
A word entrusted to one person enters shared space when it is set before the community. Here it stands before the elders’ faces, where it can be received together and carried forward.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that a word received by one person should remain private dissolves here: Moses brings it before the elders.
THE ROOT
מֹשֶׁה
Mosheh
GROWS FROM
משה
Draw out; pull from the water.
The name Moses carries the sense of being drawn out. Here the one drawn out carries the LORD’s words into the open, setting them before the community.
ALSO GROWS
mashah: To draw out.
מָשָׁה
The root behind the name connects Moses with being drawn from the water.
mashui: Drawn out.
מָשׁוּי
This describes the state carried in the name: Moses is the one drawn out, now bringing the words before others.
הַדְּבָרִים
had-devarim
GROWS FROM
דבר
Speak; as a noun, a word or a matter.
The Hebrew word can mean both spoken words and matters or things. What is set before the elders is not an empty report: the LORD’s speech becomes a shared matter for them to receive.
ALSO GROWS
davar: A word, matter, or thing.
דָּבָר
It holds speech and substance together in the words Moses sets before the elders.
dibber: He spoke.
דִּבֵּר
The spoken act and the words themselves grow from the same root.
medabber: Speaking.
מְדַבֵּר
The root keeps the living act of speaking close to the matter being shared.
וַיִּקְרָא
vayyiqra
GROWS FROM
קרא
Call out, summon, or proclaim.
The elders are called into the space where the words will be set before them. This root also carries the sense of reading aloud, linking the gathering of listeners with the public voicing of words.
ALSO GROWS
qara: To call, summon, or read aloud.
קָרָא
Moses calls the elders so they can hear what he sets before them.
miqra: A public reading or convocation.
מִקְרָא
The related word joins an assembled people with words voiced in their hearing.
THE PATTERN
A word received by one becomes communal when it is voiced, made visible, and heard together.
When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.THE THREAD
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:The same Hebrew noun דְּבָרִים (devarim, words or matters) appears here. In Exodus the words are set before the elders’ faces; in Deuteronomy those words are in the heart, moving from shared presence toward inward holding.
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