What Does Leviticus 9:6 Mean?

And Moses said, This is the word the LORD commanded you to do, and the weight of the LORD shall be seen by you.

Leviticus 9:6 · SDV

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Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.

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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.

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.

And the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the weight of the LORD filled the dwelling.

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

And when Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from the heavens and devoured the rising offering and the sacrifices, and the weight of the LORD filled the house.

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

And the word became flesh and pitched a tent among us, and we beheld his weight, the weight as of the only-born from the Father, full of favor and truth.

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

THE THREAD

And Moses and Aaron came into the tent of meeting, and came out, and blessed the people; and the weight of the LORD was seen by all the people.

Leviticus 9:23 · SDV

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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