Leviticus 8:35

World English Bible (2000)

You shall stay at the door of the Tent of Meeting day and night seven days, and keep Yahweh's command, that you don't die: 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 you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, always.
• 1 Kgs 2:3 : 3 and keep the instruction of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself.
• Num 3:7 : 7 They shall keep his requirements, and the requirements of the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.
• Num 9:19 : 19 When the cloud stayed on the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept Yahweh's command, and didn't travel.
• Num 19:12 : 12 the same shall purify himself with water on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he doesn't purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.
• Exod 29:35 : 35 "You shall do so to Aaron, and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you. You shall consecrate them seven days.
• Lev 8:30 : 30 Moses took some of the anointing oil, and some of the blood which was on the altar, and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, and on his sons, and on his sons' garments with him, and sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.
• Lev 10:1 : 1 Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire before Yahweh, which he had not commanded them.
• Lev 14:8 : 8 "He who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water; and he shall be clean. After that he shall come into the camp, but shall dwell outside his tent seven days.
• Ezek 43:25 : 25 Seven days you shall prepare every day a goat for a sin offering: they shall also prepare a young bull, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish.
• Ezek 48:11 : 11 [It shall be] for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept my instruction, who didn't go 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 all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily, 10 and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power;
• 1 Tim 1:3-4 : 3 As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine, 4 neither to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God's stewardship, which is in faith--
• 1 Tim 1:18 : 18 This instruction I commit to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to you, that by them you may wage the good warfare;
• 1 Tim 5:21 : 21 I command you in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.
• 1 Tim 6:13 : 13 I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,
• 1 Tim 6:17 : 17 Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
• 1 Tim 6:20 : 20 Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;
• 2 Tim 4:1 : 1 I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:
• Heb 7:28 : 28 For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the law appoints a Son forever who has been perfected.
• Heb 9:23-24 : 23 It was necessary therefore that 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 hasn't entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;