What Does Exodus 9:6 Mean in the King James?
And the LORD did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one.
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 verse marks preservation as precisely as destruction: Egypt loses every animal, while Israel loses not one.
THE MEANING
This verse holds two complete realities together: the Egyptian herds die, while not one Israelite animal dies. The dividing line reaches into material life itself, so neither the destruction nor the preservation is partial.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that calamity always sweeps everything into the same fate: the verse names a complete distinction within the same plague.
THE ROOT
וַיָּמָת
vayyamot
GROWS FROM
מות
to die; reach death
“died” in this verse is vayyamot. The verb comes from מות, the same root behind מָוֶת (“death”) and תָּמוּת (“you will die”). The verse sharpens this death-word with “all” on Egypt’s side and “not one” on Israel’s: destruction and preservation are both complete.
ALSO GROWS
māwet: death
מָוֶת
The noun makes explicit the death contained in the verb וַיָּמָת.
tāmût: you will die
תָּמוּת
This form uses the same root in a direct statement of dying, linking the verse’s report to scripture’s recurring death-language.
THE PATTERN
Judgment can fall with total force on one side while another is preserved within the same crisis.
And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:THE THREAD
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.Genesis 2:17 uses this same root in מוֹת תָּמוּת, “you shall surely die,” making the death-word here part of scripture’s recurring language. There, death is pronounced; here, וַיָּמָת reports it across Egypt’s cattle, while “not one” marks the line of preservation.
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