What Does Leviticus 6:27 Mean in the King James?

Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy: and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place.

Leviticus 6:27 · 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.

This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

The same root names both what contact sets apart and the place where the blood-marked garment is washed.

THE MEANING

Set-apartness is concrete here: contact with the flesh changes the touched thing’s status, and blood on a garment is washed within the set-apart place. The verse holds the offering, the marked garment, and the place of washing inside one sacred boundary.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The belief that contact with sacred things leaves the object unchanged is undone: what touches this flesh becomes set apart.

THE ROOT

יִקְדָּשׁ

yiqdāsh

GROWS FROM

קדש

q-d-sh

To be set apart or consecrated.

The verse uses the same Q-D-Sh root for the touched thing’s new status and the “holy place” where the blood-marked garment is washed. English repeats “holy,” while the Hebrew root shows one connected field: set-apartness marks both objects and the space where the boundary is kept.

ALSO GROWS

qādôsh: Set apart for a sacred purpose.

קָדוֹשׁ

This is the form used for the holy place, tying its status to the status of what touches the offering.

qōdesh: The state or domain of what is set apart.

קֹדֶשׁ

It shows that “holy” names a condition of belonging to a sacred domain, not merely a quality or feeling.

miqdāsh: A set-apart place.

מִקְדָּשׁ

This related word makes the link between sacred status and sacred space explicit.

THE PATTERN

Set-apartness becomes concrete through divine designation and contact with sacred things.

And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

Genesis 2:3 · KJVThe day is marked as set apart, showing that sacred status can define a specific time.

Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.

Exodus 29:37 · KJVThe altar’s consecration carries through contact, closely echoing the verse’s rule for the offering’s flesh.

For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:

Hebrews 9:13 · KJVHere too, blood and ritual contact are linked with a change in the body’s sacred status.

THE THREAD

Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.

Exodus 29:37 · KJV

The Hebrew root ⁨קדש⁩ (q-d-sh), meaning “to set apart,” appears in both verses’ language of holiness and sanctifying. Exodus makes the contact principle especially clear: what touches a consecrated altar becomes set apart.

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