What Does Leviticus 6:30 Mean in the King James?
And no sin offering, whereof any of the blood is brought into the tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile withal in the holy place, shall be eaten: it shall be burnt in the fire.
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 that carries blood into the holy place for covering the missing cannot be eaten; it is wholly consumed by fire.
THE MEANING
Blood carried into the holy place marks a boundary: this offering is not eaten but consumed in fire. The verse holds covering for the missing together with the offering’s complete burning, with no portion turned into food.
THE ROOT
חַטָּאת
ḥaṭṭāʾt
GROWS FROM
חטא
ḥ-ṭ-ʾ
To miss or go wrong; a missing or fault.
“sin offering” in this verse is ḥaṭṭāʾt. The Hebrew word for the offering is built from the root for missing. The verse brings that missing into the place of covering, then draws a hard boundary: the offering is not consumed as food, but by fire.
ALSO GROWS
ḥāṭāʾ: To miss or err.
חָטָא
The verb reveals the action carried in the offering’s name: a missing is being addressed.
ḥēṭʾ: A missing or fault.
חֵטְא
This noun keeps the offering connected to the specific missing it addresses, rather than to wrongdoing as an abstraction.
לְכַפֵּר
ləḵappēr
GROWS FROM
כפר
k-p-r
To cover.
The Hebrew verb translated “reconcile withal” carries the sense of covering. The verse places that covering in the holy place, while the offering itself is wholly given to fire.
ALSO GROWS
kippūr: Covering or atonement.
כִּפּוּר
This related word keeps the verse’s act of reconciliation connected to the root’s image of covering.
kōpher: A covering payment or ransom.
כֹּפֶר
This branch shows how the same root can describe a covering that answers for what is owed.
THE PATTERN
Offerings designated for the missing are burned rather than eaten, and the sanctuary-bound blood offering is wholly consumed.
Even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt.But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering.For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.THE THREAD
For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.This verse holds together the same two movements: blood enters the sanctuary for the missing, and the body is burned outside the camp. It makes the boundary in Leviticus part of a wider sacrificial pattern.
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