What Does Exodus 22:30 Mean in the King James?
Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.
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
What is set apart for God is still given its first days beside its mother.
THE MEANING
A firstborn animal is claimed for God, yet it remains with its mother for seven days before it is given. Its belonging does not erase that first bond or its appointed time. The verse presents dedication as a giving that follows an order.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that dedication requires immediate separation is undone: the animal remains with its mother before it is given.
THE ROOT
תִּתְּנוֹ
titteno
GROWS FROM
נתן
To give, set, or place.
“give” in this verse is titteno. The form titteno comes from natan, a word that can mean both giving and placing. The same root appears in mattanah, “gift,” and nethinim, “the given ones”; here, the giving comes only after the creature has remained with its mother through its first seven days.
ALSO GROWS
mattanah: A gift
מַתָּנָה
This noun from natan shows the shared root behind giving and what is given.
nethinim: Temple servants, called “given ones”
נְתִינִים
The word-family can describe people set apart for service, echoing the verse’s language of a life assigned to God.
THE PATTERN
What is set apart for God is given according to an appointed order, with its first bond preserved before the transfer.
When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then it shall be seven days under the dam; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an offering made by fire unto the LORD.All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.(As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)THE THREAD
Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.The same verb, תִּתְּנוֹ (titteno, “you shall give it”) from נתן (natan, “give, set, place”), links the animal here with the firstborn sons in the preceding verse. Together, they hold giving to God alongside an appointed order for the firstborn.
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