What Does Leviticus 27:34 Mean in the King James?

These are the commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.

Leviticus 27:34 · 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 Hebrew uses one root for both “commandments” and “commanded,” closing the book by gathering its instruction as a received charge.

THE MEANING

These commandments are gathered under one source, the LORD, and carried through Moses to Israel. The verse speaks now as a frame for received instruction: a word can come through a human voice while remaining attached to its source.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It dissolves the assumption that Moses is the source of the commandments: the verse distinguishes the one who commands from the one who carries the instruction.

THE ROOT

מִצְוֹת

mitzvot

GROWS FROM

צוה

ts-w-h

to command, charge, or appoint

“commandments / commanded” in this verse is mitzvot. The noun translated “commandments” and the verb translated “commanded” grow from the same root. The closing line holds the instructions and the act of charging them together, presenting the whole as received rather than self-authored.

ALSO GROWS

mitzvah: commandment

מִצְוָה

This singular form shares the root of “commanded,” linking each instruction to the act of charging it.

tzav: command or charge

צַו

This shorter form keeps the root’s sense of a charge given, echoing how the verse names the instructions.

מֹשֶׁה

Mosheh

GROWS FROM

משה

m-sh-h

to draw out, especially from water

Moses’s name is linked in Exodus 2:10 to being drawn out of water; here that name marks the human carrier in the transmission chain. It preserves the image of one drawn out now carrying instruction onward.

ALSO GROWS

māšāh: to draw out

מָשָׁה

This verb gives the name Moses its stated connection with being drawn out of water.

mĕšîtihû: I drew him out

מְשִׁיתִהוּ

This is the form used in Exodus 2:10 when Moses is named, tying the name to the act of drawing out.

THE PATTERN

Instruction is received from its source, carried through a messenger, and placed before a people.

And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.

Exodus 24:12 · KJVThe LORD gives the commandments to Moses to teach, matching the verse’s source-to-messenger-to-people chain.

Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:

Deuteronomy 6:1 · KJVIt repeats the paired root of command and commandment, and makes the instruction’s movement toward teaching explicit.

For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

John 12:49 · KJVJesus names the Father as the source of his command, carrying the same pattern of received instruction through a human voice.

THE THREAD

Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:

Deuteronomy 6:1 · KJV

Here, as in Leviticus 27:34, the same root ⁨צוה⁩ appears in both “commandments” (mitzvot) and “commanded” (tzivvah). The echo holds the instruction and the act of charging it together, then carries the words toward teaching and practice.

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