What Does Exodus 35:20 Mean in the King James?
And all the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.
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 hidden movement is from a presence that gathers a people to a shared action they carry beyond it.
THE MEANING
A meaningful encounter can continue in you after you leave the place where it happened. The whole assembly moves out from Moses together, and the next verse shows willing hearts turning that movement into shared work. What gathers you can travel with you.
THE ROOT
וַיֵּצְאוּ
wayyetse’u
GROWS FROM
יצא
yatsa
To go out, come out, or go forth.
“departed” in this verse is wayyetse’u. The verb carries movement from a place of gathering into what follows. Its root also names Israel’s going out from Egypt, giving this departure the shape of a communal passage.
ALSO GROWS
yetsi’ah: Going out; departure.
יְצִיאָה
This noun keeps the movement of יצא visible: departure is a passage into what comes next.
motsa: An exit, point of departure, or source.
מוֹצָא
The same root can name both the going out and the place something comes from, linking this assembly’s departure to the presence from which it moves.
מֹשֶׁה
Moshe
GROWS FROM
משׁה
mashah
To draw out or pull out.
Moses’ name is linked to the act of being drawn out of the water. The assembly now leaves the presence of the one whose name carries that movement of being brought out.
ALSO GROWS
mashah: To draw out.
מָשָׁה
This is the action carried in Moses’ name, giving the point of departure a name tied to being brought out.
meshitihu: I drew him out (Exodus 2:10).
מְשִׁיתִהוּ
The name’s explanation in Exodus keeps the act of drawing out close to Moses himself.
THE PATTERN
A gathering becomes shared work when people leave with willing hearts and act together.
And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing, and they brought the LORD’s offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy garments.And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.THE THREAD
And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.The same root, יצא (yatsa, go out), names Israel’s departure from Egypt. Here it marks the assembly’s movement from Moses’ presence, letting this smaller departure echo the larger passage of a people going out together.
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