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Ezekiel 46:20

in Ezekiel 46

and said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them into the outer court and transmit holiness to the people.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And he said unto me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass-offering and the sin-offering, and where they shall bake the meal-offering; that they bring them not forth into the outer court, to sanctify the people.

KJV

Then said he unto me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the meat offering; that they bear them not out into the utter court, to sanctify the people.

This verse in Ezekiel 46

Commentary

8 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

The trespass-offering - Part of this, and of the sin-offering, and the flour-offering was the portion of the priests. See Num 18:9, Num 18:10.

This site's exposition

the holy chambers facing north

on Ezekiel 46:19-20

The guide brings the prophet “through the entrance at the side of the gate into the holy chambers facing north”. There the priests “boil the guilt offering and the sin offering” and “bake the grain offering”. The chambers of chapter 42 keep what is most holy from what is common.

This site's exposition

transmit holiness to the people

Adam Clarke notes that these offerings were the priests' food, as Numbers 18:9 to 10 assigns them. Matthew Henry reads the rule as guarding the people from thinking that contact with holy flesh made them acceptable to God. The same concern governs the priests' garments in 44:19.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

proposed

(Verse 19 and following) And he led me through the entrance that was on the side (or behind) the gate into the treasuries of the sanctuary, to the priests (or into chambers and rooms) that faced north. And there was a place there that faced west (or the sea: and as the LXX translated, separated).

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Care was taken that they should not bear them out into the outer court, to sanctify the people. Let them not pretend to sanctify the people with this holy flesh, and so impose upon them; or let not the people imagine that by touching those sacred things they were sanctified, and made any the better or more acceptable to God.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

We may observe, in these verses, I. That the place of worship was fixed, and rules were given concerning that, both to prince and people. The east gate, which was kept shut at other times, was to be opened on the sabbath days, on the moons (

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Then said he unto me,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

Due regard is to be had for the sanctity of the officiating priests' food, by cooking courts being provided close to their chambers. One set of apartments for cooking was to be at the corners of the inner court, reserved for the flesh of the sin offerings, to be eaten only by the priests whose perquisite it was (Le 6:25;

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The words behind it

24 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.

  • וַיֹּ֣אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • אֵלַ֔יto me

    ʾelaiH413 →5510 times

  • זֶ֣הthis

    zehH2088 →1180 times

  • הַמָּק֗וֹם[is] the place

    hamakomH4725 →401 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֤רwhere

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • יְבַשְּׁלוּ־they will boil

    yevashelu-H1310 →28 times

  • שָׁם֙there

    shamH8033 →834 times

  • הַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔יםthe priests

    hakohanimH3548 →750 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הָאָשָׁ֖םthe guilt offering

    haashamH817 →46 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • הַחַטָּ֑אתthe sin offering

    hachatatH2403 →295 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֤רwhere

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • יֹאפוּ֙they will bake

    yofuH644 →

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַמִּנְחָ֔הthe grain offering

    haminchahH4503 →211 times

  • לְבִלְתִּ֥יto not

    leviltiH1115 →112 times

  • הוֹצִ֛יאto take [them] out

    hotzi'H3318 →1067 times

  • אֶל־into

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הֶחָצֵ֥רthe courtyard

    hechatzerH2691 →191 times

  • הַחִֽיצוֹנָ֖ה<the> outer

    hachitzonahH2435 →25 times

  • לְקַדֵּ֥שׁto make holy

    lekadeshH6942 →171 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הָעָֽם׃the people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

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

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 44:29

    They shall eat the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings. Everything in Israel devoted to the LORD will belong to them.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 18:14

      Every devoted thing in Israel belongs to you.

    • Leviticus 27:21

      When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will become holy, like a field devoted to the LORD; it becomes the property of the priests.

    • Leviticus 27:28

      Nothing that a man sets apart to the LORD from all he owns—whether a man, an animal, or his inherited land—can be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the LORD.

    • Leviticus 6:29

      Any male among the priests may eat it; it is most holy.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 35:13

    They roasted the Passover animals on the fire according to the regulation, and they boiled the other holy offerings in pots, kettles, and bowls and quickly brought them to all the people.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 12:8–9

      They are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

    • 1 Samuel 2:13–15

      or for the custom of the priests with the people. When any man offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest would come with a three-pronged meat fork while the meat was boiling

  • Through

    Ezekiel 44:19

    When they go out to the outer court, to the people, they are to take off the garments in which they have ministered, leave them in the holy chambers, and dress in other clothes…

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 6:27

      Anything that touches its flesh will become holy, and if any of the blood is spattered on a garment, you must wash it in a holy place.

    • 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…

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.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; 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.