What Does Numbers 32:24 Mean in the King James?
Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.
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
A word that leaves the mouth becomes real as the shelter you build and the action you complete.
THE MEANING
Your spoken commitment takes shape in what you build for those who depend on you and in the work you carry through. The verse binds speech, protection, and action together in the life you are living now.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a promise is finished once spoken: what leaves your mouth is joined to what you do.
THE ROOT
הַיּוֹצֵא
hayotze
GROWS FROM
יצא
yatsa
To go out, come forth, or emerge.
“proceeded” in this verse is hayotze. The verse describes the commitment as what has gone out from your mouth, using יָצָא (yatsa, to go out or come forth). Speech is already moving outward; the verse joins that movement to the building and doing that follow.
ALSO GROWS
yetzi'ah: Going out, departure
יְצִיאָה
The same root names a movement out from where something began, echoing the word that has gone forth from the mouth.
motsa: An outlet or point of origin
מוֹצָא
It carries the sense of where something comes out, illuminating the verse’s image of a commitment issuing from speech.
בְּנוּ
benu
GROWS FROM
בנה
banah
To build or establish.
The verse uses בְּנוּ (benu, build) for the cities made for the little ones. The related family word בֵּן (ben, son) shares the building pattern: here, building is language for making a place that can hold a household and its future.
ALSO GROWS
binyan: A building or structure
בִּנְיָן
It makes the root’s action visible as something that stands and shelters.
ben: Son
בֵּן
Its connection with בנה (banah, build) brings family and building into the same word-family, resonating with the cities built for the little ones.
THE PATTERN
A spoken commitment becomes real through the action that gives it form.
That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:THE THREAD
That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.Both verses describe a commitment as what has gone out from the mouth or lips, using יָצָא (yatsa, to go out or come forth). Numbers ties that outward movement to shelter and action; Deuteronomy makes the same outgoing word something to keep and perform.
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