King James Version
Numbers 15:22 in the King James Version says “And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses,” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 15 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses,”
Numbers 15:22 · KJV
Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave offering: as ye do the heave offering of the threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it.
Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD an heave offering in your generations.
And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses,
Even all that the LORD hath commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day that the LORD commanded Moses, and henceforward among your generations;
Then it shall be, if ought be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour unto the LORD, with his meat offering, and his drink offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering. without: Heb. from the eyes manner: or, ordinance
KJV Study — Public Domain
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“And if ye have erred”
H7686to stray (causatively, mislead), usually (figuratively) to mistake, especially (morally) to transgress; by extension (through the idea of intoxication
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“all these commandments”
H4687a command, whether human or divine (collectively, the law)
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“hath spoken”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
“which the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
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