King James Version
Deuteronomy 31:24 in the King James Version says “And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,” — study this verse from Deuteronomy chapter 31 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,”
Deuteronomy 31:24 · KJV
Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.
And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee.
And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,
That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying,
Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.
KJV Study — Public Domain
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“had made an end”
H3615to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitive (to complete, prepare, consume)
“of writing”
H3789to grave, by implication, to write (describe, inscribe, prescribe, subscribe)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“the words”
H1697a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
“until they were finished”
H8552to complete, in a good or a bad sense, literal, or figurative, transitive or intransitive
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