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Leviticus 19:1

in Leviticus 19

Then the LORD said to Moses,

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

KJV

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

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This verse in Leviticus 19

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Then the LORD said to Moses

on Leviticus 19:1-2

The command is given to "the whole congregation of Israel", so what follows falls on farmers, traders and judges as well as on the priests. The ground given is the character of the speaker, and the chapter returns to that ground fifteen more times.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And the Lord spake unto Moses,.... About the same, or quickly after he had delivered the above laws to him; and there are many in this chapter, which were before given, and here repeated: saying; as follows.

The words behind it

5 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיְדַבֵּ֥רand he spoke

    vaydaberH1696 →1141 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • מֹשֶׁ֥הMoses

    moshehH4872 →765 times

  • לֵּאמֹֽר<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

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About Leviticus

The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
Leviticus: the study guide →Read Leviticus 19 →

This page draws on Andrew Bonar, A Commentary on Leviticus; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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