Ezekiel 46 · Verse 20

Ezekiel 46:20

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.
Ezekiel 46:20, King James Version

Ezekiel 46:20 in other translations

BSBand 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.”
WEBHe said to 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 not bring them out into the outer court, to sanctify the people.”
ASVAnd 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.
YLTAnd he saith unto me, ‘This is the place where the priests do boil the guilt-offering and the sin-offering, where they bake the present, so as not to bring it out unto the outer court, to sanctify the people.'
DARBYAnd 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 oblation, that they bring them not out into the outer court, so as to hallow the people.
BBEAnd he said to me, This is the place where the offering for error and the sin-offering are to be cooked in water by the priests, and where the meal offering is to be cooked in the oven; so that they may not be taken out into the outer square to make the people holy.
WebsterThen said he to 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 outer court, to sanctify the people.

What does Ezekiel 46:20 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 46:19-24

19-24. 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; 7:7), before coming forth to mingle again with the people; another set at the corners of…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 20 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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Ezekiel 46:20 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvai.Yo.merand he saidH559
אֵלַ֔י'e.Laito meH413
זֶ֣הzehthisH2088
הַמָּק֗וֹםha.ma.Kom[is] the placeH4725
אֲשֶׁ֤ר'a.SherwhereH834
יְבַשְּׁלוּ\־ye.va.she.lu-they will boilH1310
שָׁם֙shamthereH8033
הַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔יםha.Ko.ha.Nimthe priestsH3548
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
הָאָשָׁ֖םha.'a.Shamthe guilt offeringH817
וְאֶת\־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853
הַחַטָּ֑אתha.cha.Tatthe sin offeringH2403
אֲשֶׁ֤ר'a.SherwhereH834
יֹאפוּ֙yo.Futhey will bakeH644
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
הַמִּנְחָ֔הha.min.Chahthe grain offeringH4503
לְבִלְתִּ֥יle.vil.Tito notH1115
הוֹצִ֛יאho.Tzi'to take [them] outH3318
אֶל\־'el-intoH413
הֶחָצֵ֥רhe.cha.Tzerthe courtyardH2691
הַחִֽיצוֹנָ֖הha.chi.tzo.Nah<the> outerH2435
לְקַדֵּ֥שׁle.ka.Deshto make holyH6942
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
הָעָֽם\׃ha.'Amthe peopleH5971

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Cross references for Ezekiel 46:20

  • 2 Chronicles 35:13

    And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance: but the other holy offerings sod they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and divided them speedily among all the people.

  • Ezekiel 44:19

    And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments.

  • Ezekiel 44:29

    They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.

  • Leviticus 2:4-7

    And if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering baken in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil. And if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in a pan, it shall be of fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil. Thou shalt part it in pieces, and pour oil thereon: it is a meat offering. And if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in the fryingpan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.

  • 1 Samuel 2:13-15

    And the priests’ custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest’s servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand; And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither. Also before they burnt the fat, the priest’s servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.

  • Leviticus 7:1-38

    Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy. In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar. And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof; the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul that is above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away: …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
boil the trespass.
44:29; 1Sa 2:13-15; 2Ch 35:13
bake the meat.
Le 2:4-7; 7:1-38
to sanctify.
44:19

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Context

  • Ezekiel 46:19

    After he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which looked toward the north: and, behold, there was a place on the two sides westward.

  • Ezekiel 46:20

    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.

  • Ezekiel 46:21

    Then he brought me forth into the utter court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in every corner of the court there was a court.

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Ezekiel 46:20 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y díjome: Este es el lugar donde los sacerdotes cocerán el sacrificio por el pecado y la expiación: allí cocerán el presente, por no sacarlo al atrio de afuera para santificar al pueblo.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et il me dit: C’est ici le lieu où les sacrificateurs feront bouillir le sacrifice pour le délit et le sacrifice pour le péché, et où ils cuiront l’offrande de gâteau, en sorte qu’ils ne les portent pas dehors dans le parvis extérieur de manière à sanctifier le peuple.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und er sprach zu mir: Das ist der Ort, wo die Priester das Schuldopfer und das Sündopfer kochen, wo sie das Speisopfer backen sollen, damit sie es nicht in den äußeren Vorhof hinaustragen, das Volk zu heiligen. -
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et dixit ad me: Iste est locus ubi coquent sacerdotes pro peccato et pro delicto: ubi coquent sacrificium, ut non efferant in atrium exterius, et sanctificetur populus.