What Does Leviticus 24:10 Mean in the King James?
And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp;
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 quarrel happens inside the camp itself, revealing that shared space does not erase conflict.
THE MEANING
People can share a community and still stand in conflict. The verse holds mixed family origins and shared space together, without saying that one explains the other. Proximity does not guarantee peace among those living together now.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Belonging inside a community guarantees peace among its members.
THE ROOT
וַיִּנָּצוּ
vayinnatsu
GROWS FROM
נצה
natsah
to quarrel, contend
“strove” in this verse is vayinnatsu. The same root describes two Hebrews contending in Exodus 2:13, so this word does not make mixed parentage the cause of strife. It names a rupture that can surface among people who share a community.
ALSO GROWS
nitsim: contending, quarreling
נִצִּים
This form describes two Hebrews in conflict in Exodus 2:13, showing that the root’s contention is not limited to this man’s mixed parentage.
vayinnatsu: they quarreled, contended
וַיִּנָּצוּ
This is the verb form used here: the dispute takes place among the people, inside the camp.
THE PATTERN
Conflict can emerge inside the shared space people occupy together.
And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest.From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?THE THREAD
And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?The same Hebrew root is rendered “strove together” in both verses. In Exodus, the contention is between two Hebrews and leads to a question about striking a fellow; here, the same root places the quarrel inside the camp. Shared ancestry or shared space alone does not resolve the rupture.
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