Ezekiel 46:13
in Ezekiel 46And you shall provide an unblemished year-old lamb as a daily burnt offering to the LORD; you are to offer it every morning.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And thou shalt prepare a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt-offering unto Jehovah daily: morning by morning shalt thou prepare it.
KJV
Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the Lord of a lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt prepare it every morning.
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This verse in Ezekiel 46
Commentary
7 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Compare with marginal references. The evening sacrifice is here omitted, because the seer is selecting a few only of the sacrifices of the Law, with a particular object in view.
This site's exposition
Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering
on Ezekiel 46:13-15
Beneath the sabbath and new moon offerings sits the base rhythm of every morning, a yearling lamb without blemish with its own meat offering of fine flour and oil, called a perpetual ordinance. Henry notes the daily lamb as the floor under the whole calendar, the one offering that never waits for a feast day. The vision's worship never has an empty morning.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verses 13-15) He shall also offer a year-old lamb without blemish as a burnt offering to the Lord every day. He shall offer it in the morning and in the evening. And he shall offer as a grain offering a sixth of an ephah of grain and a third of a hin of olive oil, mixed with the grain offering. This is a perpetual ordinance to the Lord. You will make a lamb and a sacrifice, and oil every morning, a perpetual burnt offering.
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
It is strange that no mention is made of the evening sacrifice; but Christ having come, and having offered himself now in the end of the world ( Heb. ix. 26 ), we are to look upon him as the evening sacrifice, about the time of the offering up of which he died.
Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the Lord,....
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
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.
Thou shalt prepare it every morning - The evening offering is entirely omitted, which makes an important difference between this and the old laws. See Exodus 29:31-46.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
And when the prince brings a freewill offering on the six working days.
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
a sixth of an ephah of the [post-Exodus] Jerusalemite measure, which is a fifth of the [Mosaic] “measure of the desert,” equaling two tenth parts, one for the daily meal-offering and one for the pancakes.
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
12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְכֶ֨בֶשׂ | vekheves | and a lamb | H3532 → | 107 times |
| בֶּן־ | ben- | [the] son of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| שְׁנָת֜וֹ | shenato | year its | H8141 → | 877 times |
| תָּמִ֗ים | tamim | unblemished | H8549 → | 91 times |
| תַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה | taaseh | you will offer | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| עוֹלָ֛ה | olah | a burnt offering | H5930 → | 287 times |
| לַיּ֖וֹם | laiyom | to the day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| לַֽיהֹוָ֑ה | layahweh | to Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| בַּבֹּ֥קֶר | baboker | in the morning | H1242 → | 214 times |
| בַּבֹּ֖קֶר | baboker | in the morning | H1242 → | 214 times |
| תַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה | taaseh | you will offer | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| אֹתֽוֹ׃ | ʾoto | <obj.> it | H853 → | 10935 times |
וְכֶ֨בֶשׂand a lamb
vekhevesH3532 →107 times
בֶּן־[the] son of
ben-H1121 →4930 times
שְׁנָת֜וֹyear its
shenatoH8141 →877 times
תָּמִ֗יםunblemished
tamimH8549 →91 times
תַּעֲשֶׂ֥הyou will offer
taasehH6213 →2628 times
עוֹלָ֛הa burnt offering
olahH5930 →287 times
לַיּ֖וֹםto the day
laiyomH3117 →2304 times
לַֽיהֹוָ֑הto Yahweh
layahwehH3068 →6520 times
בַּבֹּ֥קֶרin the morning
babokerH1242 →214 times
בַּבֹּ֖קֶרin the morning
babokerH1242 →214 times
תַּעֲשֶׂ֥הyou will offer
taasehH6213 →2628 times
אֹתֽוֹ׃<obj.> it
ʾotoH853 →10935 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
Isaiah 50:4The Lord GOD has given Me the tongue of discipleship, to sustain the weary with a word. He awakens Me morning by morning; He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.
it leads to
- Luke 21:15
For I will give you speech and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.
- Jeremiah 1:9
Then the LORD reached out His hand, touched my mouth, and said to me: “Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.
- Exodus 4:11–12
And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
- Luke 21:15
Through
John 1:29The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
it leads to
- Isaiah 53:7
He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not…
- 1 John 2:2
He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
- 1 Peter 1:19
but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.
- 1 John 3:5
But you know that Christ appeared to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin.
- 2 Corinthians 5:21
God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
- Isaiah 53:7
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 (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.