These are the commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.

LEVITICUS 27:34KJV
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Leviticus 27:34 (KJV)

What does Leviticus 27:34 mean?

Leviticus 27:34 closes the book by identifying the instructions just given as the LORD’s commands to Israel through Moses. The verse places those instructions at Mount Sinai, the setting where Israel received laws after leaving Egypt.

The verse speaks in the narrator’s voice. Its final line gives the preceding instructions an origin and an audience: they came from the LORD, were given to Moses, and were intended for the children of Israel.

The Hebrew behind Leviticus 27:34

  • “LORD” — יְהוָה (YHWH): This is the personal name of Israel’s God. The KJV signals that name by printing “LORD” in capital letters.
  • “children” — בָּנִים (banim): The word can mean sons or children and can also refer to descendants. Here, “children of Israel” names the people descended from Israel, rather than only young children.

Why Leviticus 27:34 matters

  • Moses is presented as the receiver of the commands, not their source. The verse says that “the LORD commanded Moses” for the people.
  • The closing line connects the chapter’s detailed instructions to the Sinai setting. After the rules about animals and other property in verses 30–33, “in mount Sinai” places those rules within the larger account of the LORD’s instructions to Israel.

Where else these words appear

“Sinai” Hebrew H5514 · used in 34 verses

  • Exodus 16:1 And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
  • Exodus 34:29 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.
  • Numbers 9:5 And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.