What Does Leviticus 20:24 Mean?

“But I have said”

to say (used with great latitude)

thou and thee, or (plural) ye and you

“it unto you to possess”

to occupy (by driving out previous tenants, and possessing in their place); by implication, to seize, to rob, to inherit; also to expel, to impoverish

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

“their land”

soil (from its general redness)

i

“and I will give”

to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)

“it unto you to possess”

to occupy (by driving out previous tenants, and possessing in their place); by implication, to seize, to rob, to inherit; also to expel, to impoverish

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

“it a land”

the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

“that floweth”

to flow freely (as water), i.e., (specifically) to have a (sexual) flux; figuratively, to waste away; also to overflow

“with milk”

milk (as the richness of kine)

“and honey”

honey (from its stickiness); by analogy, syrup

i

“I am the LORD”

(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god

“your God”

gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of

who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc

“which have separated”

to divide (in variation senses literally or figuratively, separate, distinguish, differ, select, etc.)

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses

“you from other people”

a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock