Leviticus 22:9

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְשָׁמְר֣וּ אֶת־מִשְׁמַרְתִּ֗י וְלֹֽא־יִשְׂא֤וּ עָלָיו֙ חֵ֔טְא וּמֵ֥תוּ ב֖וֹ כִּ֣י יְחַלְּלֻ֑הוּ אֲנִ֥י יְהוָ֖ה מְקַדְּשָֽׁם׃

Transliteration

wə-šāmərû ʾet-mišmartî wə-lōʾ-yiśʾû ʿālāyw ḥēṭʾ û-mētû bô kî yəḥallĕluhû ʾănî YHWH məqaddəšām

Grammar Details

*wə-šāmərû*: conjunction + Qal perfect 3rd common plural - and they shall keep
*ʾet*: direct object marker
*mišmartî*: noun feminine singular construct + 1st person singular suffix - my charge/obligation
*wə-lōʾ*: conjunction + negative particle - and not
*yiśʾû*: Qal imperfect 3rd masculine plural - they shall bear
*ʿālāyw*: preposition + 3rd masculine singular suffix - upon it/him
*ḥēṭʾ*: noun masculine singular - sin
*û-mētû*: conjunction + Qal perfect 3rd common plural - and die
*bô*: preposition + 3rd masculine singular suffix - by/in it
*kî*: conjunction - because, for
*yəḥallĕluhû*: Piel imperfect 3rd masculine plural + 3rd masculine singular suffix - they profane it
*ʾănî*: 1st person singular pronoun - I
*YHWH*: proper noun, divine name - LORD
*məqaddəšām*: Piel participle masculine singular + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their sanctifier

Word Meanings

*šāmərû*: keep, guard, observe
*mišmartî*: my charge, my obligation, my requirement
*yiśʾû*: bear, carry, take up
*ḥēṭʾ*: sin, offense, guilt
*mētû*: die, be put to death
*yəḥallĕluhû*: profane it, defile it, treat it as common
*məqaddəšām*: their sanctifier, one who makes them holy

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Referenced Verses

Exod 28:43 : 43 And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they come in unto the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy place; that they bear not iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute for ever unto him and his seed after him.
Num 18:22 : 22 Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.
Num 18:32 : 32 And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.
Lev 10:1-2 : 1 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not. 2 And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.
Lev 16:2 : 2 And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.
Lev 22:16 : 16 Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Lev 22:15-17
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15And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto the LORD;
16Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
17And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Lev 20:7-8
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7Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God.
8And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify you.
Lev 22:1-3
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1And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow unto me: I am the LORD.
3Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.
Lev 18:29-30
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29For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
30Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.
Lev 22:7-8
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7And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food.
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Lev 21:6
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6They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.
Lev 21:8
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8Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which sanctify you, am holy.
Lev 22:31-32
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31Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the LORD.
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Lev 19:30
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30Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
Lev 15:31
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Exod 31:13-14
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13Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.
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19But thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden:
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Lev 21:22-23
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22He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.
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Lev 26:2
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2Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
Num 18:32
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Exod 19:22
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22And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them.
Lev 19:8
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8Therefore every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the LORD: and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Lev 18:4-5
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Num 18:3
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3And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die.
Exod 30:29
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29And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.
Ezek 44:23-24
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23And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
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Ezek 44:16
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16They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.
Lev 21:15
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Exod 30:20-21
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20When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the LORD:
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Lev 22:10
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10There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
Num 18:22
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22Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.
Lev 20:26
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26And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.
Ezek 44:13
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Ezek 20:12
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12Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.
Ezek 22:8
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8Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
Exod 29:33
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33And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy.
Ezek 44:8
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8And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
Lev 19:37
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37Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.
Ezek 22:26
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Ezek 20:20
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Num 6:8
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8All the days of his separation he is holy unto the LORD.