What Does Leviticus 10:13 Mean in the King James?
And ye shall eat it in the holy place, because it is thy due, and thy sons’ due, of the sacrifices of the LORD made by fire: for so I am commanded.
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
Holiness includes the portion received, not only what is offered by fire.
THE MEANING
This verse holds sacred service and receiving together: the appointed share is eaten in a place set apart. The portion is not outside the holy order; receiving it belongs within that order.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the idea that receiving nourishment makes an offering less sacred; here, the appointed eating is part of the sacred arrangement.
THE ROOT
חָקְךָ
ḥoqkha
GROWS FROM
חקק
ḥ-q-q
To inscribe or mark out; by extension, to prescribe or decree.
The word rendered “due” carries the sense of a prescribed share, something marked out. The verse places receiving inside the offering’s prescribed order: this portion has a place in what is set apart.
ALSO GROWS
ḥaqaq: To engrave, inscribe, or decree.
חָקַק
The share is not incidental; it is marked out within the arrangement.
ḥuqqah: A prescribed statute or ordinance.
חֻקָּה
This branch shows how the root can name an established order, the same kind of order that includes the priests’ portion.
קָדוֹשׁ
qadosh
GROWS FROM
קדש
q-d-sh
To set apart, make distinct for a specific purpose.
“holy” in this verse is qadosh. The place is set apart as the location where this portion is eaten. Here, set-apartness gives receiving a boundary and a place; eating does not take the portion outside the sacred order.
ALSO GROWS
qodesh: That which is set apart; a sacred thing or place.
קֹדֶשׁ
The word can name both the quality of set-apartness and what belongs within it.
miqdash: A sanctuary, a place set apart.
מִקְדָּשׁ
This branch makes the spatial sense clear: set-apartness can be embodied in a place where a sacred act occurs.
THE PATTERN
What is set apart for service can also be its appointed provision.
And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it.The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?THE THREAD
And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it.The same q-d-sh root appears in “holy place,” pairing set-apartness with the act of eating. The verse makes clear that receiving the offering’s remainder belongs within its sacred order.
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