Ezekiel 43:21
in Ezekiel 43Then you are to take away the bull for the sin offering and burn it in the appointed part of the temple area outside the sanctuary.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Thou shalt also take the bullock of the sin-offering, and it shall be burnt in the appointed place of the house, without the sanctuary.
KJV
Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering, and he shall burn it in the appointed place of the house, without the sanctuary.
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This verse in Ezekiel 43
Commentary
8 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
In the appointed place of the house - A place within the temple-court, but “without the sanctuary” properly so called, that is to say, without the temple and inner court. This was probably the “separate place” (see Eze 41:12).
This site's exposition
the ordinances of the altar
on Ezekiel 43:18-21
The ordinances for the altar's own dedication follow the pattern the older law already set for Aaron's altar (Exodus 29:36-37, Leviticus 8:15), a bullock for a sin offering whose blood is put on the horns, the corners of the settle and the border, to cleanse and purge the altar before it carries any other offering. The priests named to do it are the seed of Zadok, the line this book has already marked out at 40:46 as the ones who kept the charge of the sanctuary when the rest of Levi went astray, so that even the altar's consecration is entrusted only to a proven priesthood. The bullock's body is burned in the appointed place outside the sanctuary rather than on the altar itself, the sin offering's own body kept apart from the altar it cleanses.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Ver. 18 and following) And he said to me: Son of man, thus says the Lord God: These are the rituals of the altar when it is made, to offer a burnt offering and pour out blood. And you shall give to the priests, the Levites who are of the seed of Zadok, who approach me, says the Lord God: to offer to me a young bull from the herd as a sin offering.
The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices
It is observable that there are several differences between the rites of dedication here and those which were appointed Exod. xxix. , to intimate that the ceremonial institutions were mutable things, and the changes in them were earnests of their period in Christ. Only here, according to the general law, that all the sacrifices must be seasoned with salt ( Lev. ii.
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He has seen the temple, and sees it to be very spacious and splendid; but, till the glory of God comes into it, it is but like the dead bodies he had seen in vision ( ch. xxxvii. ), that had no breath till the Spirit of life entered into them. Here therefore he sees the house filled with God's glory. He has a vision of the glory of God (
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In the appointed place - That is, in the court of the house, and on the altar appointed; this is the first day's sacrifice.
Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering,....
1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
The expressions, "blood" (Eze 43:18), and "for a sin offering" (Eze 43:19, 21, 22), prove this. In the literal sense they can only apply to the second temple. Under the Christian dispensation they would directly oppose the doctrine taught in Heb 10:1-18, namely, that Christ has by one offering for ever atoned for sin.
The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְלָ֣קַחְתָּ֔ | velakachta | and you will take | H3947 → | 966 times |
| אֵ֖ת | ʾet | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הַפָּ֣ר | hapar | the young bull | H6499 → | 132 times |
| הַֽחַטָּ֑את | hachatat | the sin offering | H2403 → | 295 times |
| וּשְׂרָפוֹ֙ | userafo | and someone will burn it | H8313 → | 117 times |
| בְּמִפְקַ֣ד | bemifkad | in [the] appointed place of | H4662 → | |
| הַבַּ֔יִת | habayit | the house | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| מִח֖וּץ | michutz | from [the] outside | H2351 → | 164 times |
| לַמִּקְדָּֽשׁ׃ | lamikdash | of the sanctuary | H4720 → | 75 times |
וְלָ֣קַחְתָּ֔and you will take
velakachtaH3947 →966 times
אֵ֖ת<obj.>
ʾetH853 →10935 times
הַפָּ֣רthe young bull
haparH6499 →132 times
הַֽחַטָּ֑אתthe sin offering
hachatatH2403 →295 times
וּשְׂרָפוֹ֙and someone will burn it
userafoH8313 →117 times
בְּמִפְקַ֣דin [the] appointed place of
bemifkadH4662 →
הַבַּ֔יִתthe house
habayitH1004 →2046 times
מִח֖וּץfrom [the] outside
michutzH2351 →164 times
לַמִּקְדָּֽשׁ׃of the sanctuary
lamikdashH4720 →75 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Leviticus 8:17But the bull with its hide, flesh, and dung he burned outside the camp, as the LORD had commanded him.
it leads to
- Leviticus 4:11–12
But the hide of the bull and all its flesh, with its head and legs and its entrails and dung—
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Exodus 29:14
But burn the flesh of the bull and its hide and dung outside the camp; it is a sin offering.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Leviticus 4:11–12
Through
Exodus 29:14But burn the flesh of the bull and its hide and dung outside the camp; it is a sin offering.
it leads to
- Leviticus 4:21
Then he is to take the bull outside the camp and burn it, just as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Exodus 30:10
Once a year Aaron shall make atonement on the horns of the altar. Throughout your generations he shall make atonement on it annually with the blood of the sin offering of atonement. The altar…
- Ezra 8:35
Then the exiles who had returned from captivity sacrificed burnt offerings to the God of Israel: 12 bulls for all Israel, 96 rams, 77 lambs, and a sin offering of 12 male goats. All…
- Leviticus 4:21
Through
Leviticus 4:12all the rest of the bull—he must take outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place where the ashes are poured out, and there he must burn it on a wood fire on the…
it leads to
- Hebrews 13:11
Although the high priest brings the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, the bodies are burned outside the camp.
- Leviticus 16:27
The bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought into the Most Holy Place to make atonement, must be taken outside the camp; and their hides,…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Leviticus 6:10–11
And the priest shall put on his linen robe and linen undergarments, and he shall remove from the altar the ashes of the burnt offering that the fire has consumed and place them beside…
- Hebrews 13:11
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About Ezekiel
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.