What Does Leviticus 22:30 Mean in the King James?

On the same day it shall be eaten up; ye shall leave none of it until the morrow: I am the LORD.

Leviticus 22:30 · KJV

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 offering’s sacredness has a boundary in time: it is eaten on its appointed day, with no surplus carried into morning.

THE MEANING

The offering has an appointed span: it is eaten on its day, and none remains until morning. The verse speaks now of receiving what belongs to this day without extending it as surplus into tomorrow, under the name of the LORD.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The belief that keeping something sacred longer always honors it; here, the offering’s appointed completion is part of its sacred order.

THE ROOT

תּוֹתִירוּ

tōtîrû

GROWS FROM

יתר

Remain over; be left as surplus.

“leave none” in this verse is tōtîrû. The verb translated “leave” comes from the same root as words for “more” and “surplus.” The command closes the possibility of carrying an excess past the offering’s appointed day; that boundary is audible in the root itself.

ALSO GROWS

yoter: More; what remains over.

יוֹתֵר

It shares the root’s sense of excess, making the verse’s “leave none” a direct refusal of what remains over.

yitron: Advantage; profit or surplus.

יִתְרוֹן

This branch shows how the root can name what is left as gain, sharpening the verse’s limit on carrying anything forward.

THE PATTERN

Scripture ties provision to its appointed day, so receiving today does not automatically become carrying over into tomorrow.

And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.

Exodus 16:19 · KJVThe manna is bounded by the same morning deadline, linking a day’s provision to its appointed time.

And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.

Deuteronomy 16:4 · KJVThe Passover flesh, like this offering, is not carried past its appointed night.

Give us this day our daily bread.

Matthew 6:11 · KJVThe prayer names provision as belonging to this day, echoing the passage’s bounded measure of receiving.

THE THREAD

And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.

Exodus 16:19 · KJV

The Hebrew verb for “leave” here and in Exodus comes from ⁨יתר⁩ (yathar), meaning to remain over or be in excess. In both verses, that surplus is bounded by morning, making the shared root’s time limit audible beneath the English.

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