What Does Leviticus 22:30 Mean?
On the same day it shall be eaten up; you shall leave none of it until morning. I am the LORD.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
On the same day it shall be eaten up; ye shall leave none of it until the morrow: I am the LORD.THE KEY
The offering’s sacredness has a boundary in time: it is eaten on its appointed day, with no surplus carried into morning.
THE MEANING
The offering has an appointed span: it is eaten on its day, and none remains until morning. The verse speaks now of receiving what belongs to this day without extending it as surplus into tomorrow, under the name of the LORD.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that keeping something sacred longer always honors it; here, the offering’s appointed completion is part of its sacred order.
THE ROOT
תּוֹתִירוּ
tōtîrû
GROWS FROM
יתר
Remain over; be left as surplus.
“leave none” in this verse is tōtîrû. The verb translated “leave” comes from the same root as words for “more” and “surplus.” The command closes the possibility of carrying an excess past the offering’s appointed day; that boundary is audible in the root itself.
ALSO GROWS
yoter: More; what remains over.
יוֹתֵר
It shares the root’s sense of excess, making the verse’s “leave none” a direct refusal of what remains over.
yitron: Advantage; profit or surplus.
יִתְרוֹן
This branch shows how the root can name what is left as gain, sharpening the verse’s limit on carrying anything forward.
THE PATTERN
Scripture ties provision to its appointed day, so receiving today does not automatically become carrying over into tomorrow.
And Moses said, Let no one leave any of it until the morning.No soured bread shall be seen with you in all your borders for seven days. None of the flesh you slaughtered on the first day at evening shall lodge through the night until morning.Give us today our bread for the coming day.THE THREAD
And Moses said, Let no one leave any of it until the morning.The Hebrew verb for “leave” here and in Exodus comes from יתר (yathar), meaning to remain over or be in excess. In both verses, that surplus is bounded by morning, making the shared root’s time limit audible beneath the English.
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