What Does Exodus 29:46 Mean in the King James?
And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I am the LORD their God.
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 exit is not the end of deliverance; its destination is God dwelling among the people.
THE MEANING
You know the LORD through a movement out of constriction and into nearness. Being brought out opens into a life where God dwells among the people; the repeated name anchors that nearness in who God is.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that escape from what binds you is the whole of deliverance, or that God remains distant once the crisis has passed.
THE ROOT
וְשָׁכַנְתִּי
weshakhanti
GROWS FROM
שכן
sh-k-n
To settle, inhabit, or make a dwelling.
The verb שָׁכַן (shakan, dwell) is the root of מִשְׁכָּן (mishkan, dwelling place or tabernacle). The rescue has a destination: not merely freedom from Egypt, but God’s abiding presence in the people’s midst.
ALSO GROWS
mishkan: Dwelling place; tabernacle.
מִשְׁכָּן
This branch makes the link between God’s act of dwelling and a place of presence explicit.
shokhen: One who dwells; an inhabitant.
שֹׁכֵן
It shows that dwelling describes a settled presence, not a passing visit.
וְיָדְעוּ
veyadʿu
GROWS FROM
ידע
y-d-ʿ
To know, perceive, or recognize.
“shall know” in this verse is veyadʿu. יָדַע (yadaʿ, know) can describe intimate, relational knowing, as in Genesis 4:1. Here the people recognize the LORD through the rescue and presence named in the same breath, rather than through detached information alone.
ALSO GROWS
yadaʿ: To know or perceive; also used of intimate knowing.
יָדַע
Its relational use illuminates the verse’s knowing as recognition formed through lived nearness.
daʿat: Knowledge or understanding.
דַּעַת
This noun keeps knowing within the same word family as perception and recognition.
הוֹצֵאתִי
hotsēti
GROWS FROM
יצא
y-ṣ-ʾ
To go out or emerge; in this causative form, to bring out.
“brought them forth” in this verse is hotsēti. The verb gives the people an exit from מִצְרַיִם (Mitzrayim, Egypt), read through צַר (tzar, narrow or constricting). The verse carries that movement from the narrow place toward God’s dwelling among them.
ALSO GROWS
yatsa: To go out or emerge.
יָצָא
The root holds both the people’s going out and their emergence into a new condition.
yetsi'at Mitzrayim: The going out from Egypt; the Exodus.
יְצִיאַת מִצְרַיִם
This phrase preserves the verse’s exit language as a passage out of constriction and toward presence.
THE PATTERN
Being brought out opens into belonging and divine presence among the people.
And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.THE THREAD
And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.Exodus 6:7 uses the same verb יָדַע (yadaʿ, know) and binds that knowing to being brought out. The echo shows that knowing who God is is bound to rescue and to belonging.
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