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Leviticus 23:30 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 30. 30And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
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Quick Meaning
This verse warns that doing work brings divine destruction in the text's covenant terms.
Read It With
- Leviticus 23:26-32
Place Leviticus 23:30 inside 23:26-32. This verse warns that doing work brings divine destruction in the text's covenant terms. Its surrounding procedure or case makes the larger point: On the tenth day the community gathers, practices self-denial, offers, and does no work from evening to evening under severe cut-off formulas.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The unit needs this detail before it can reach its next action or distinction: this verse warns that doing work brings divine destruction in the text's covenant terms.
Follow the Context
- The unit opens the case or movement named “The Day of Atonement requires rest and self-denial.”
- On the tenth day the community gathers, practices self-denial, offers, and does no work from evening to evening under severe cut-off formulas.
- Self-denial must not become self-harm, coercive fasting, or a claim that those unable to fast are faithless. That boundary keeps ritual status, moral guilt, ancient description, enduring truth, and modern application from being collapsed.
What This Verse Is Not Saying
Leviticus 23:30 does not stand apart from Leviticus 23:26-32; self-denial must not become self-harm, coercive fasting, or a claim that those unable to fast are faithless.
What Remains True
Warns that doing work brings divine destruction in the text's covenant terms. Within Leviticus 23:26-32, this contributes to the larger claim that on the tenth day the community gathers, practices self-denial, offers, and does no work from evening to evening under severe cut-off formulas.
How It Can Shape Life
- When teaching Leviticus 23:30, keep the verse inside Leviticus 23:26-32. Hold this boundary: Self-denial must not become self-harm, coercive fasting, or a claim that those unable to fast are faithless. Apply only the noncoercive truth the complete unit supports.
Teach It Back
Explain Leviticus 23:30's contribution to Leviticus 23:26-32. Name the category involved, what the surrounding verses add, any material uncertainty, and what the verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
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Read Leviticus 23:26-32 — The Day of Atonement requires rest and self-denialSources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Leviticus 23:26-32, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Leviticus
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, ritual and legal vocabulary, names, clause relationships, KJV language controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Lev.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 23:26-32
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NET Bible: Leviticus with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
eBible.org distribution of the NET Bible, PDF generated 2025-12-31
Supports: Unit-bounded translator notes on Hebrew, syntax, ritual vocabulary, measures, textual questions, and older-English wording; silence is not treated as evidence.
Exact location: NET Bible Leviticus PDF, complete PDF pp. 1-99, translation and translator notes for 23:26-32
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