What Does Leviticus 9:6 Mean in the King James?

And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commanded that ye should do: and the glory of the LORD shall appear unto you.

Leviticus 9:6 · KJV

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THE KEY

Kavod makes the LORD’s glory a weight that becomes visible to the people.

THE MEANING

This verse places the LORD’s command and its enactment before a promised appearance of the LORD’s kavod (⁨כָּבוֹד⁩, kavod: weight). The appearance is divine weight made perceptible. Its “unto you” speaks directly to the reader now.

THE ROOT

כָּבוֹד

kavod

GROWS FROM

כבד

To be heavy; to carry weight.

Kavod holds weight and honor together beneath the English word “glory.” Here, the LORD’s weight becomes perceptible as the LORD appears to the people.

ALSO GROWS

kaved: Heavy; weighty.

כָּבֵד

This is the concrete sense carried into kavod, making “glory” something perceptible.

kibbed: To honor; to treat as weighty.

כִּבֵּד

Honor is the relational branch of weight: a person or presence is given significance.

THE PATTERN

The LORD’s kavod (⁨כָּבוֹד⁩, kavod: weight) becomes perceptible among people and within their dwelling.

Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

Exodus 40:34 · KJVHere the LORD’s kavod fills the tabernacle, making divine weight present within the dwelling.

Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house.

2 Chronicles 7:1 · KJVHere the LORD’s glory fills the house after prayer, appearing as a presence that occupies the dwelling.

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.

John 1:14 · KJVHere people behold the glory in the Word dwelling among them.

THE THREAD

And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the congregation, and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the people.

Leviticus 9:23 · KJV

The same kavod (⁨כָּבוֹד⁩, kavod: weight) named in verse 6 appears again as Moses and Aaron come out and bless the people. The promise of an appearance “unto you” becomes visible “unto all the people.”

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