King James Version
Exodus 34:27 in the King James Version says “And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with the...” — study this verse from Exodus chapter 34 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.”
Exodus 34:27 · KJV
Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.
The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.
And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. commandments: Heb. words
And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“Write”
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)
“of these words”
H1697a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“for after the tenor”
H6310the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with prepos
“of these words”
H1697a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
“I have made”
H3772to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e., make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutt
properly, nearness (used only as a preposition or an adverb), near; hence, generally, with, by, at, among, etc
properly, nearness (used only as a preposition or an adverb), near; hence, generally, with, by, at, among, etc
“with thee and with Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
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