Exodus 19:6

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

and you will be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you will speak to the Israelites.”

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאַתֶּ֧ם תִּהְיוּ־לִ֛י מַמְלֶ֥כֶת כֹּהֲנִ֖ים וְג֣וֹי קָד֑וֹשׁ אֵ֚לֶּה הַדְּבָרִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר תְּדַבֵּ֖ר אֶל־בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

Transliteration

wə-ʾattem tihyû-to me mamleḵet kōhănîm wə-gôy qādôš these the dəbārîm ʾăšer tədabbēr to bənê yiśrāʾēl.

Grammar Details

• *wə-ʾattem*: conjunction + pronoun, 2nd masculine plural - and you
• *tihyû*: verb, qal imperfect 2nd masculine plural - you will be
• *mamleḵet*: noun, feminine singular construct - kingdom of
• *kōhănîm*: noun, masculine plural - priests
• *wə-gôy*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular - and nation
• *qādôš*: adjective, masculine singular - holy/set apart
• *dəbārîm*: noun, masculine plural (with definite article) - the words/things
• *ʾăšer*: relative particle - which/that
• *tədabbēr*: verb, piel imperfect 2nd masculine singular - you shall speak
• *bənê*: noun, masculine plural construct - sons/children of
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel

Word Meanings

• *mamleḵet kōhănîm*: kingdom of priests/priestly kingdom
• *gôy qādôš*: holy nation/set-apart people
• *dəbārîm*: words/statements/matters

Referenced Verses

• 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
• Isa 62:12 : 12 They will be called,“The Holy People, the Ones Protected by the LORD.” You will be called,“Sought After, City Not Abandoned.”
• Deut 26:19 : 19 Then he will elevate you above all the nations he has made and you will receive praise, fame, and honor. You will be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he has said.
• Deut 7:6 : 6 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.
• 1 Pet 2:5 : 5 you yourselves, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood and to offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
• Rev 1:6 : 6 and has appointed us as a kingdom, as priests serving his God and Father– to him be the glory and the power for ever and ever! Amen.
• Rev 5:10 : 10 You have appointed them as a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth.”
• Rev 20:6 : 6 Blessed and holy is the one who takes part in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.
• Deut 28:9 : 9 The LORD will designate you as his holy people just as he promised you, if you keep his commandments and obey him.
• Lev 20:26 : 26 You must be holy to me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the other peoples to be mine.
• Lev 21:7-8 : 7 They must not take a wife defiled by prostitution, nor are they to take a wife divorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God. 8 You must sanctify him because he presents the food of your God. He must be holy to you because I, the LORD who sanctifies you all, am holy.
• Lev 21:23 : 23 but he must not go near the special curtain or step forward to the altar because he has a physical flaw. Thus he must not profane my holy places, for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.’”
• Lev 11:44-45 : 44 for I am the LORD your God and you are to sanctify yourselves and be holy because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any of the swarming things that creep on the ground, 45 for I am the LORD who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God, and you are to be holy because I am holy.
• Lev 19:2 : 2 “Speak to the whole congregation of the Israelites and tell them,‘You must be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.
• Lev 20:24 : 24 So I have said to you: You yourselves will possess their land and I myself will give it to you for a possession, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the LORD your God who has set you apart from the other peoples.
• Deut 33:2-4 : 2 He said:A Historical Review The LORD came from Sinai and revealed himself to Israel from Seir. He appeared in splendor from Mount Paran, and came forth with ten thousand holy ones. With his right hand he gave a fiery law to them. 3 Surely he loves the people; all your holy ones are in your power. And they sit at your feet, each receiving your words. 4 Moses delivered to us a law, an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.
• Isa 61:6 : 6 You will be called,‘the LORD’s priests, servants of our God.’ You will enjoy the wealth of nations and boast about the riches you receive from them.
• Rom 12:1 : 1 Consecration of the Believer’s Life Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice– alive, holy, and pleasing to God– which is your reasonable service.
• 1 Cor 3:17 : 17 If someone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, which is what you are.
• 1 Thess 5:27 : 27 I call on you solemnly in the Lord to have this letter read to all the brothers and sisters.
• 1 Pet 1:15-16 : 15 but, like the Holy One who called you, become holy yourselves in all of your conduct, 16 for it is written,“You shall be holy, because I am holy.”
• Deut 14:21 : 21 You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the LORD your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.