What Does Leviticus 16:34 Mean in the King James?
And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he did as the LORD commanded 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 yearly covering takes in the people’s whole field of missing without pretending it never happened.
THE MEANING
This verse meets you with a covering for all the people’s sins, appointed to return each year under the LORD’s command. The recurring rite names the missing and brings it under covering before the LORD.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that you must already be free of every wrong to be within reach of a covering: the verse says the atonement is made for all the people’s sins.
THE ROOT
לְכַפֵּר
lekhapper
GROWS FROM
כפר
kaphar
To cover.
The verb לְכַפֵּר (lekhapper, to cover or make atonement) grows from כפר (kaphar, to cover). Its branches name a covering and a covering price, showing that the verse’s atonement is an act applied to the people’s whole field of missing.
ALSO GROWS
kippurim: Atonements or acts of covering.
כִּפֻּרִים
This form shares the verse’s root and makes the covering in its yearly rite concrete.
kapporet: The cover over the ark, also called the mercy seat.
כַּפֹּרֶת
The cover over the ark shows the root’s covering sense in a physical object.
kopher: A covering price or ransom.
כֹּפֶר
This branch shows how covering can also mean a price given to secure someone’s release.
חַטֹּאתָם
chatto’tam
GROWS FROM
חטא
chata
To miss or fail to reach what is intended.
The root חטא (chata, to miss) gives “sins” the sense of missed aim, not only a category of wrongdoing. “All their sins” gathers every such miss under the covering named by כפר (kaphar, to cover).
ALSO GROWS
chata: To miss or do wrong.
חָטָא
The verb makes the root’s sense of missing visible beneath the English word “sins.”
chatta’t: Sin, or a sin offering.
חַטָּאת
This noun links the people’s missing to the offering through which the covering is made.
THE PATTERN
The people’s whole field of missing is brought under a covering appointed to return at its set time.
And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it is most holy unto the LORD.For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD.But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.THE THREAD
For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD.The same כפר (kaphar, to cover) lies beneath “make an atonement” in both verses. Leviticus 16:30 names the covering’s movement toward cleansing and being clean before the LORD.
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