Ezekiel 40 · Verse 38

Ezekiel 40:38

And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.
Ezekiel 40:38, King James Version

Ezekiel 40:38 in other translations

BSBThere was a chamber with a doorway by the portico in each of the inner gateways. There the burnt offering was to be washed.
WEBA room with its door was by the posts at the gates. They washed the burnt offering there.
ASVAnd a chamber with the door thereof was by the posts at the gates; there they washed the burnt-offering.
YLTAnd the chamber and its opening is by the posts of the gates, there they purge the burnt-offering.
DARBYAnd there was a cell and its entry by the posts of the gates; there they rinsed the burnt-offering.
BBEAnd there was a room with a door in the covered way of the doorway, where the burned offering was washed.
WebsterAnd the chambers and its entries were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt-offering.

What does Ezekiel 40:38 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
38. chambers ... entries--literally, "a chamber and its door." by the posts--that is, at or close by the posts or columns. where they washed the burnt offering--This does not apply to all the gates but only to the north gate. For Le 1:11 directs the sacrifices to be killed north of the altar; and Eze 8:5 calls the north gate, "the gate of the altar." And Eze 40:40 particularly mentions the north gate.

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Ezekiel 40:38 in the original Hebrew

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וְלִשְׁכָּ֣הve.lish.Kahand a roomH3957
וּפִתְחָ֔הּu.fit.Chahand entrance itsH6607
בְּאֵילִ֖יםbe.'ei.Lim[was] at pillarsH352
הַשְּׁעָרִ֑יםha.she.'a.Rimthe gatesH8179
שָׁ֖םshamthereH8033
יָדִ֥יחוּya.Di.chupeople rinseH1740
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
הָעֹלָֽה\׃ha.'o.Lahthe burnt offeringH5930

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Cross references for Ezekiel 40:38

  • 2 Chronicles 4:6

    He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.

  • Leviticus 1:9

    But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.

  • Ezekiel 41:10-11

    And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side. And the doors of the side chambers were toward the place that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about.

  • Ezekiel 40:17

    Then brought he me into the outward court, and, lo, there were chambers, and a pavement made for the court round about: thirty chambers were upon the pavement.

  • Ezekiel 40:12

    The space also before the little chambers was one cubit on this side, and the space was one cubit on that side: and the little chambers were six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.

  • 1 Kings 6:8

    The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.

  • Hebrews 10:22

    Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

  • Leviticus 8:21

    And he washed the inwards and the legs in water; and Moses burnt the whole ram upon the altar: it was a burnt sacrifice for a sweet savour, and an offering made by fire unto the Lord; as the Lord commanded Moses.

  • Ezekiel 42:13

    Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the Lord shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the chambers.
12; 41:10,11; 1Ki 6:8
where.This place, where the legs and entrails of the sacrifices, especially of the burnt offerings, were washed, was just within the portico of the north entrance to the inner court, or court of the priests. An allusion to this is most probably made by the inspired apostle when writing his Epistle to the Hebrews, at the 10th chapter and 22nd verse. "Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water."
Le 1:9; 8:21; Heb 10:22

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Context

  • Ezekiel 40:37

    And the posts thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps.

  • Ezekiel 40:38

    And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.

  • Ezekiel 40:39

    And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering.

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Ezekiel 40:38 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y había allí una cámara, y su puerta con postes de portales; allí lavarán el holocausto.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et il y avait une cellule et son entrée auprès des piliers des portes: là on lavait l’holocauste.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und eine Zelle und ihr Eingang war an den Pfeilern der Tore; daselbst spülte man das Brandopfer ab.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Et per singula gazophylacia ostium in frontibus portarum: ibi lavabant holocaustum.