What Does Leviticus 23:43 Mean in the King James?
That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
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 booth is freedom’s living memory: you can be brought out of constriction and sheltered before anything becomes permanent.
THE MEANING
The booth makes memory tangible: deliverance from Mitzrayim’s narrowing includes being given a place to dwell while life is still provisional. You know the LORD’s care through a shelter that holds the story of being brought out.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that freedom only counts once every temporary shelter has become permanent security.
THE ROOT
סֻכּוֹת
sukkot
GROWS FROM
סכך
sakak
to cover, screen, or shelter
“booths” in this verse is sukkot. The booth belongs to the language of covering and shelter, so the sign of deliverance is a place of protection, even when it is temporary. The shelter itself carries the memory: freedom includes being held while life is still unfolding.
ALSO GROWS
sakak: To cover or shelter
סָכַךְ
The verb makes the booth’s protective covering visible in the word itself.
sukkah: A booth or shelter
סֻכָּה
The singular names the dwelling that lets each generation inhabit the memory of being brought out.
הוֹצֵאתִי
hotzeiti
GROWS FROM
יצא
yatsa
to go out or emerge
“brought them out” in this verse is hotzeiti. The verse describes a real passage out of constriction, then a dwelling on the other side. The movement is not the whole story: the same voice that brings you out also gives you a place to dwell.
ALSO GROWS
yetzi’ah: An exit or departure
יְצִיאָה
It names the passage outward that the verse keeps alive in the annual shelter.
motsa: A way out or point of emergence
מוֹצָא
The root holds the image of an opening out of what had confined you.
יֵדְעוּ
yed’u
GROWS FROM
ידע
yada
to know or recognize through experience
The generations know by living inside the sign, not only by receiving a report about escape. The temporary dwelling turns memory into an encounter with the care that carries you.
ALSO GROWS
yodea: A person who knows or recognizes
יֹדֵעַ
The verse imagines each generation becoming a knower through the shelter it inhabits.
da’at: Knowledge or recognition
דַּעַת
This knowing is joined to a lived memory of protection and passage.
THE PATTERN
Deliverance becomes durable when shelter and presence make the passage out of constriction something lived and remembered.
And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.THE THREAD
For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.The Hebrew בְּסֻכּוֹ (besukko, “in his booth or shelter”) belongs to the same sukkah word family as the booths in Leviticus. The shelter marks both a remembered passage out of constriction and protection in present trouble.
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