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Leviticus 24:10 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 10. 10And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp;
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Quick Meaning
This verse assigns the bread to Aaron and his sons for eating in a holy place.
Read It With
- Leviticus 24:10-16
Read through 24:10-16 and watch how each actor, material, status, or command relates. Leviticus 24:10 assigns the bread to Aaron and his sons for eating in a holy place; the whole unit establishes this: After a fight, an Israelite woman's son blasphemes the Name, is held until the LORD's decision, and the congregation stones him under a rule for native and outsider.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The narrative shifts from continual sanctuary service to a public case about the divine Name, custody, equal resident law, injury, and execution; adjacency alone does not make lamp and bread instructions the cause of the fight. Within the whole book, this unit contributes: After a fight, an Israelite woman's son blasphemes the Name, is held until the LORD's decision, and the congregation stones him under a rule for native and outsider. Within that movement, this verse assigns the bread to Aaron and his sons for eating in a holy place.
What Remains True
Assigns the bread to Aaron and his sons for eating in a holy place. Within Leviticus 24:10-16, this contributes to the larger claim that after a fight, an Israelite woman's son blasphemes the Name, is held until the LORD's decision, and the congregation stones him under a rule for native and outsider.
How It Can Shape Life
- When teaching Leviticus 24:10, keep the verse inside Leviticus 24:10-16. Hold this boundary: The narrative names his mother's Israelite and father's Egyptian identities without making mixed ancestry the cause of wrongdoing; the execution is not a modern blasphemy law. Apply only the noncoercive truth the complete unit supports.
Continue in Context
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Read Leviticus 24:10-16 — A mixed-parentage man's blasphemy case moves from custody to executionSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Leviticus 24:10-16, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Leviticus
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
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Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Lev.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 24:10-16
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NET Bible: Leviticus with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
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Exact location: NET Bible Leviticus PDF, complete PDF pp. 1-99, translation and translator notes for 24:10-16
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