Leviticus 8:35

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And at the door of the tent of meeting shall ye abide day and night seven days, and keep the charge of Jehovah, that ye die not: for so I am commanded.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּפֶתַח֩ אֹ֨הֶל מוֹעֵ֜ד תֵּשְׁב֨וּ יוֹמָ֤ם וָלַ֙יְלָה֙ שִׁבְעַ֣ת יָמִ֔ים וּשְׁמַרְתֶּ֛ם אֶת־מִשְׁמֶ֥רֶת יְהוָ֖ה וְלֹ֣א תָמ֑וּתוּ כִּי־כֵ֖ן צֻוֵּֽיתִי

Transliteration

And־at־petaḥ ʾōhel mōʿēd tēšəbū yōmām wə-laylāh šibʿat yāmîm ū-šəmartem ʾet־mišmeret yhwh and־not tāmūtū for־thus ṣuwwêtî

Grammar Details

• *petaḥ*: masculine singular construct - opening/entrance of
• *ʾōhel*: masculine singular construct - tent of
• *mōʿēd*: masculine singular noun - meeting/appointed time
• *tēšəbū*: 2nd masculine plural imperfect qal - you shall stay/sit/remain
• *yōmām*: adverb - by day/daytime
• *wə-laylāh*: conjunction + masculine singular noun - and night
• *šibʿat*: feminine singular construct - seven of
• *yāmîm*: masculine plural noun - days
• *ū-šəmartem*: conjunction + 2nd masculine plural perfect qal - and you shall keep/guard
• *mišmeret*: feminine singular construct - charge/watch/guard duty of
• *yhwh*: proper noun - LORD/Yahweh
• *tāmūtū*: 2nd masculine plural imperfect qal - you will die
• *ṣuwwêtî*: 1st singular perfect pual - I was commanded

Word Meanings

• *petaḥ ʾōhel mōʿēd*: entrance of tent of meeting/doorway of tabernacle
• *tēšəbū*: remain/stay/dwell/sit
• *mišmeret*: charge/watch/guard duty/obligation

Referenced Verses

• Deut 11:1 : 1 Therefore thou shalt love Jehovah thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, alway.
• 1 Kgs 2:3 : 3 and keep the charge of Jehovah thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, [and] his commandments, and his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself.
• Num 3:7 : 7 And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.
• Num 9:19 : 19 And when the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of Jehovah, and journeyed not.
• Num 19:12 : 12 the same shall purify himself therewith on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.
• Exod 29:35 : 35 And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron, and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded thee: seven days shalt thou consecrate them.
• Lev 8:30 : 30 And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood which was upon the altar, and sprinkled it upon Aaron, upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon his sons' garments with him, and sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.
• Lev 10:1 : 1 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took each of them his censer, and put fire therein, and laid incense thereon, and offered strange fire before Jehovah, which he had not commanded them.
• Lev 14:8 : 8 And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water; and he shall be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, but shall dwell outside his tent seven days.
• Ezek 43:25 : 25 Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for a sin-offering: they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish.
• Ezek 48:11 : 11 [It shall be] for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, that have kept my charge, that went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
• 2 Cor 7:1 : 1 Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
• Col 2:9-9 : 9 for in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, 10 and in him ye are made full, who is the head of all principality and power:
• 1 Tim 1:3-4 : 3 As I exhorted thee to tarry at Ephesus, when I was going into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge certain men not to teach a different doctrine, 4 neither to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questionings, rather than a dispensation of God which is in faith; [so do I now].
• 1 Tim 1:18 : 18 This charge I commit unto you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to you, that by them you may war the good warfare;
• 1 Tim 5:21 : 21 I charge [thee] in the sight of God, and {G2962} Christ Jesus, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.
• 1 Tim 6:13 : 13 I {G3853} charge thee in the sight of God, who giveth life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed the good confession;
• 1 Tim 6:17 : 17 Charge them that are rich in this present world, that they be not highminded, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on {G2198} God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
• 1 Tim 6:20 : 20 O Timothy, guard that which is committed unto [thee], turning away from the profane babblings and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;
• 2 Tim 4:1 : 1 I charge [thee] in the sight of God, and of {G2962} Christ Jesus, who shall judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:
• Heb 7:28 : 28 For the law appointeth men high priests, having infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was after the law, [appointeth] a Son, perfected for evermore.
• Heb 9:23-24 : 23 It was necessary therefore that {G3303} the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24 For Christ entered {G1525} not into a holy place made with hands, like in pattern to the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us: