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Ezekiel 45:13

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This is the contribution you are to offer: a sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat, and a sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

This is the oblation that ye shall offer: the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of wheat; and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of barley;

KJV

This is the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley:

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This verse in Ezekiel 45

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

And these are the firstfruits that you shall offer: one-sixth of an ephah of wheat, and one-sixth of an ephah of barley. The measure of oil: a bath of oil is one-tenth of a cor; and ten baths make one cor, for ten baths fill a cor. And these are the firstfruits that you shall separate: one-sixth of a measure of wheat, and one-sixth of an ephah of barley, and a prescribed measure of oil, a cotyle, which is a tenth of a cor; and ten cotyles make one measure, for ten cotyles are a cor.

This site's exposition

This is the contribution you are to offer

on Ezekiel 45:13-15

The contribution uses the honest measures: “a sixth of an ephah from each homer” of wheat and of barley, and one sheep in two hundred. The stated purpose closes the unit, “to make atonement for the people.” Fairbairn notes the modest fraction required, a system built to be sustainable.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Having laid down the rules of the righteousness toward men, which is really a branch off true religion, he comes next to give some directions for their religion towards God, which is a branch of universal righteousness. It is required that they offer an oblation to the Lord out of what they have (

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

The offerings. to be made by the people through the prince for the service of the sanctuary. In the Mosaic Law the offerings for the sacrifices of the ordinary festivals were left to the free will of the people. Here they are reduced to regular order and the amounts ordained. In later days there were often shortcomings in these respects Mal 3:8. This is obviated, and regularity ensured in the new order of things. No mention is made of wine for the drink-offering, or of bullocks for the burnt-offering, so that the enumeration is not complete.

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

In these oblations there is a progression as to the relation between the kind and the quantity: of the corn, the sixth of a tenth, that is, a sixtieth part of the quantity specified; of the oil, the tenth of a tenth, that is, an hundredth part; and of the flock, one from every two hundred.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

a sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat This amounts to one out of sixty. Whoever wishes to give little shall not give less than this, and this is what they said (Ter.:3): “A stingy person gives one out of sixty.”
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Ezekiel 45:13:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 7 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

12 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • זֹ֥אתthis

    zotH2063 →603 times

  • הַתְּרוּמָ֖ה[will be] the contribution

    haterumahH8641 →76 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • תָּרִ֑ימוּyou will offer up

    tarimuH7311 →190 times

  • שִׁשִּׁ֤ית[the] sixth [part] of

    shishitH8345 →28 times

  • הָֽאֵיפָה֙the ephah

    haeifahH374 →40 times

  • מֵחֹ֣מֶרfrom [the] homer of

    mechomerH2563 →31 times

  • הַֽחִטִּ֔יםthe wheat<s>

    hachitimH2406 →30 times

  • וְשִׁשִּׁיתֶם֙and you will give a sixth part of

    veshishitemH8341 →

  • הָֽאֵיפָ֔הthe ephah

    haeifahH374 →40 times

  • מֵחֹ֖מֶרfrom [the] homer of

    mechomerH2563 →31 times

  • הַשְּׂעֹרִֽים׃the barley<s>

    haseorimH8184 →34 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Where this verse is studied

About Ezekiel

Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.

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