What Does Leviticus 19:6 Mean in the King James?
It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the morrow: and if ought remain until the third day, it shall be burnt in the fire.
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 Hebrew word for “remain” also carries the sense of surplus: by the third day, what is left is no longer a meal but something given over to the fire.
THE MEANING
The offering is a meal with a defined span: it is eaten on the day it is presented and the next day. By the third day, what remains is burned rather than kept as food. The verse holds reception, time, and release together.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the assumption that whatever remains is still fit to keep; here, time changes the remainder’s place.
THE ROOT
וְהַנּוֹתָר
ve-hanotar
GROWS FROM
י־ת־ר
y-t-r
To remain, be left over, or be in excess.
English “remain” can sound like simple persistence, but this root also carries the sense of what is extra or surplus. The verse treats the remainder as food beyond its appointed time, and sends it to the fire.
ALSO GROWS
yoter: More, extra, or beyond.
יוֹתֵר
This branch makes the surplus sense audible in the word translated “remain.”
yether: Remainder or excess.
יֶתֶר
It shows that what is left can be understood as surplus, not merely as food still present.
hotir: To leave over or cause something to remain.
הוֹתִיר
This verb shares the root of the verse’s noun for what is left over.
זִבְחֲכֶם
zivḥakhem
GROWS FROM
ז־ב־ח
z-b-ḥ
To slaughter or sacrifice.
The word translated “offer” is literally “your sacrifice,” rooted in the act of slaughter. The meal is the flesh of that offering, so its time limit belongs to the shared meal and to the sacrifice that provides it.
ALSO GROWS
zavaḥ: To slaughter or offer a sacrifice.
זָבַח
The verb keeps the act behind the offering visible in the verse.
mizbēaḥ: Altar.
מִזְבֵּחַ
The altar’s name shares the sacrifice root, linking the offering to the place where it is presented.
THE PATTERN
What is set apart for a sacred purpose has a boundary, and what passes beyond it is released rather than kept in ordinary use.
And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire.For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.THE THREAD
Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.“Left” in Exodus shares the root י־ת־ר (y-t-r) with “remain” here. There, food kept past its appointed time spoils; here, the remainder is assigned to fire, making the boundary around the meal visible.
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