Ezekiel 45:14
in Ezekiel 45The prescribed portion of oil, measured by the bath, is a tenth of a bath from each cor (a cor consists of ten baths or one homer, since ten baths are equivalent to a homer).
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
and the set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is ten baths, even a homer (for ten baths are a homer);
KJV
Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten baths; for ten baths are an homer:
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This verse in Ezekiel 45
Commentary
5 notes on this verseAnd 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 oblation that ye shall offer
on Ezekiel 45:13-15
The people's own oblation is fixed by the new honest measures just given, a sixth part of an ephah of wheat and of barley, a tenth of the bath of oil, and one lamb from every two hundred, brought for the meat offering, the burnt offering and the peace offerings. The stated purpose closes the unit, to make reconciliation for them, keeping the whole ordinance tied to atonement rather than mere ritual tax. Fairbairn notes the modest fraction required, a system built to be sustainable rather than crushing.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
This was given to the altar; for in every meat-offering there was flour mingled with oil. Out of their flocks they were to give one lamb out of 200; that was the smallest proportion of all,
Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
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
On the verses either side of this one
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.”
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
15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְחֹ֨ק | vechok | and [the] prescribed portion of | H2706 → | 127 times |
| הַשֶּׁ֜מֶן | hashemen | the oil | H8081 → | 193 times |
| הַבַּ֣ת | habat | the bath | H1324 → | 13 times |
| הַשֶּׁ֗מֶן | hashemen | the oil | H8081 → | 193 times |
| מַעְשַׂ֤ר | ma'sar | [will be] [the] tenth part of | H4643 → | |
| הַבַּת֙ | habat | the bath | H1324 → | 13 times |
| מִן־ | min- | from | H4480 → | 1188 times |
| הַכֹּ֔ר | hakor | the cor | H3734 → | |
| עֲשֶׂ֥רֶת | ʾaseret | [the] ten | H6235 → | 176 times |
| הַבַּתִּ֖ים | habatim | the baths | H1324 → | 13 times |
| חֹ֑מֶר | chomer | [are] a homer | H2563 → | 31 times |
| כִּֽי־ | ki- | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| עֲשֶׂ֥רֶת | ʾaseret | ten | H6235 → | 176 times |
| הַבַּתִּ֖ים | habatim | the baths | H1324 → | 13 times |
| חֹֽמֶר׃ | chomer | [are] a homer | H2563 → | 31 times |
וְחֹ֨קand [the] prescribed portion of
vechokH2706 →127 times
הַשֶּׁ֜מֶןthe oil
hashemenH8081 →193 times
הַבַּ֣תthe bath
habatH1324 →13 times
הַשֶּׁ֗מֶןthe oil
hashemenH8081 →193 times
מַעְשַׂ֤ר[will be] [the] tenth part of
ma'sarH4643 →
הַבַּת֙the bath
habatH1324 →13 times
מִן־from
min-H4480 →1188 times
הַכֹּ֔רthe cor
hakorH3734 →
עֲשֶׂ֥רֶת[the] ten
ʾaseretH6235 →176 times
הַבַּתִּ֖יםthe baths
habatimH1324 →13 times
חֹ֑מֶר[are] a homer
chomerH2563 →31 times
כִּֽי־for
ki-H3588 →4482 times
עֲשֶׂ֥רֶתten
ʾaseretH6235 →176 times
הַבַּתִּ֖יםthe baths
habatimH1324 →13 times
חֹֽמֶר׃[are] a homer
chomerH2563 →31 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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About Ezekiel
This page draws on 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.