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Ezekiel 46:12

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When the prince makes a freewill offering to the LORD, whether a burnt offering or a peace offering, the gate facing east must be opened for him. He is to offer his burnt offering or peace offering just as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and the gate must be closed after he goes out.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And when the prince shall prepare a freewill-offering, a burnt-offering or peace-offerings as a freewill-offering unto Jehovah, one shall open for him the gate that looketh toward the east; and he shall prepare his burnt-offering and his peace-offerings, as he doth on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the gate.

KJV

Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily unto the Lord, one shall then open him the gate that looketh toward the east, and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he did on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the gate.

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This verse in Ezekiel 46

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

(Verse 12) When the prince offers a voluntary burnt offering or a voluntary peace offering to the Lord, the gate facing east shall be opened for him, and he shall offer his burnt offering and his peace offering as is customary on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and after he has gone out, the gate shall be closed. Where we read immaculate, in Hebrew it is written Thamim (), which the Aquila perfectum. And where LXX Manaa (): Theodotion, sacrifice; Aquila and Symmachus, they translate as gift.

This site's exposition

in the feasts and in the solemnities

on Ezekiel 46:11-12

The feast-day meat offering repeats the same fixed ratio, an ephah for a bullock and for a ram, oil to match, while a voluntary offering the prince brings on his own gets its own gate opened for it and shut again after he goes out. The voluntary offering stands apart from the fixed calendar entirely, brought when the prince chooses rather than when the month requires it. Keil reads the separate gate procedure as marking the difference between required worship and free devotion, both given a place.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Of the keeping of this gate ordinarily shut we read before ( ch. xliv. 2 ); whereas the other gates of the court were opened every day, this was opened only on high days and on special occasions, when it was opened for the prince, who was to go in by the way of the porch of that gate,
The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

on Ezekiel 46:12-15

Not only is he to perform official acts of worship on holy days and feasts, but in "voluntary" offerings daily he is to show his individual zeal, surpassing all his people in liberality, and so setting them a princely example.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

And when the prince brings a freewill offering on the six working days.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Ezekiel 46:12:1, 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. 4 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

30 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.

  • וְכִֽי־and if

    vekhi-H3588 →4482 times

  • יַעֲשֶׂה֩he will provide

    yaasehH6213 →2628 times

  • הַנָּשִׂ֨יאthe prince

    hanasi'H5387 →134 times

  • נְדָבָ֜הa freewill offering

    nedavahH5071 →

  • עוֹלָ֣הa burnt offering

    olahH5930 →287 times

  • אֽוֹ־or

    ʾov-H176 →321 times

  • שְׁלָמִים֮peace offerings

    shelamimH8002 →87 times

  • נְדָבָ֣הa freewill offering

    nedavahH5071 →

  • לַֽיהוָה֒to Yahweh

    layahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • וּפָ֣תַֽחand someone will open

    ufatachH6605 →144 times

  • ל֗וֹfor him

    lo

  • אֶת<obj.>

    ʾetH853 →10935 times

  • הַשַּׁ֙עַר֙the gate

    hashaarH8179 →374 times

  • הַפֹּנֶ֣הwhich faces

    haponehH6437 →135 times

  • קָדִ֔יםeast

    kadimH6921 →69 times

  • וְעָשָׂ֤הand he will offer

    veasahH6213 →2628 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • עֹֽלָתוֹ֙burnt offering his

    olatoH5930 →287 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • שְׁלָמָ֔יוpeace offerings his

    shelamavH8002 →87 times

  • כַּאֲשֶׁ֥רjust as

    kaasherH834 →5497 times

  • יַעֲשֶׂ֖הhe will offer

    yaasehH6213 →2628 times

  • בְּי֣וֹםon [the] day of

    beyomH3117 →2304 times

  • הַשַּׁבָּ֑תthe sabbath

    hashabatH7676 →110 times

  • וְיָצָ֛אand he will go out

    veyatza'H3318 →1067 times

  • וְסָגַ֥רand someone will shut

    vesagarH5462 →91 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַשַּׁ֖עַרthe gate

    hashaarH8179 →374 times

  • אַחֲרֵ֥יafter

    ʾachareiH310 →715 times

  • צֵאתֽוֹ׃has gone out he

    tzetoH3318 →1067 times

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

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Ezekiel 45:17And it shall be the prince’s part to provide the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings for the feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—for all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He will provide the sin offerings, grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings to make atonement for the house of Israel.4 worksEzekiel 46:1–2“This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘The gate of the inner court that faces east must be kept shut during the six days of work, but on the Sabbath day and on the day of the New Moon it shall be opened.4 worksEzekiel 44:3Only the prince himself may sit inside the gateway to eat in the presence of the LORD. He must enter by way of the portico of the gateway and go out the same way.”3 works2 Chronicles 29:31Then Hezekiah said, “Now that you have consecrated yourselves to the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of the LORD.” So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all whose hearts were willing brought burnt offerings.3 worksLeviticus 23:38These offerings are in addition to the offerings for the LORD’s Sabbaths, and in addition to your gifts, to all your vow offerings, and to all the freewill offerings you give to the LORD.3 worksEzekiel 46:8When the prince enters, he shall go in through the portico of the gateway, and he shall go out the same way.3 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Ezra 3:5After that, they presented the regular burnt offerings and those for New Moons and for all the appointed sacred feasts of the LORD, as well as all the freewill offerings brought to the LORD.2 worksLeviticus 7:16If, however, the sacrifice he offers is a vow or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day he presents his sacrifice, but the remainder may be eaten on the next day.2 works1 Kings 3:4Now the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for it was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on the altar there.2 worksEphesians 5:2and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.2 worksEzra 1:4And let every survivor, wherever he lives, be assisted by the men of that region with silver, gold, goods, and livestock, along with a freewill offering for the house of God in Jerusalem.’”2 works2 Chronicles 5:6There, before the ark, King Solomon and the whole congregation of Israel who had assembled with him sacrificed so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.2 worksNumbers 29:39You are to present these offerings to the LORD at your appointed times, in addition to your vow and freewill offerings, whether burnt offerings, grain offerings, drink offerings, or peace offerings.”2 works1 Chronicles 29:21The next day they offered sacrifices and presented burnt offerings to the LORD: a thousand bulls, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, along with their drink offerings, and other sacrifices in abundance for all Israel.2 worksLeviticus 1:3If one’s offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he is to present an unblemished male. He must bring it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting for its acceptance before the LORD.2 worksRomans 12:1Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.2 works2 Chronicles 7:5–7And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.2 worksEzra 6:17For the dedication of the house of God they offered a hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and a sin offering for all Israel of twelve male goats, one for each tribe of Israel.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each 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

    Ezekiel 44:3

    Only the prince himself may sit inside the gateway to eat in the presence of the LORD. He must enter by way of the portico of the gateway and go out the same way.”

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 46:2

      The prince is to enter from the outside through the portico of the gateway and stand by the gatepost, while the priests sacrifice his burnt offerings and peace offerings. He is to bow in…

    • Ezekiel 37:25

      They will live in the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They will live there forever with their children and grandchildren, and My servant David will be their…

    • Ezekiel 34:24

      I, the LORD, will be their God, and My servant David will be a prince among them. I, the LORD, have spoken.

    • 1 Corinthians 10:18–33

      Consider the people of Israel: Are not those who eat the sacrifices fellow partakers in the altar?

    • Genesis 31:54

      Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat a meal. And after they had eaten, they spent the night on the mountain.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 45:17

    And it shall be the prince’s part to provide the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings for the feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—for all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He…

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 46:4–12

      The burnt offering that the prince presents to the LORD on the Sabbath day shall be six unblemished male lambs and an unblemished ram.

    • 2 Chronicles 31:3

      The king contributed from his own possessions for the regular morning and evening burnt offerings and for the burnt offerings on the Sabbaths, New Moons, and appointed feasts, as written in the Law of…

    • Isaiah 66:23

      From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come to worship before Me,” says the LORD.

About Ezekiel

The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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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 and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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