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Ezekiel 40:38
There was a chamber with a doorway by the portico in each of the inner gateways. There the burnt offering was to be washed.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Ezekiel records a vision detailing the architectural layout of a restored temple, specifically describing the structural features surrounding the inner gateways.
The words — לִשְׁכָּה (lishkah) translates literally as a chamber or room, and יָדִיחוּ (yadihu) means to rinse or wash.
The thread — The ritual washing of sacrificial parts appears in Leviticus 1:9 and Leviticus 8:21, while dedicated washing basins are noted in 2 Chronicles 4:6.
Why it lands — The text establishes that ritual preparation requires a designated, architecturally specific location for washing offerings before they are presented.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.
Cross-references
- 2 Chronicles 4:6 He also made ten basins for washing and placed five on the south side and five on the north. The parts of the burnt offering were rinsed in them, but the priests used the Sea for washing.
- Leviticus 1:9 The entrails and legs must be washed with water, and the priest shall burn all of it on the altar as a burnt offering, a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
- Leviticus 8:21 He washed the entrails and legs with water and burned the entire ram on the altar as a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
- 1 Kings 6:8 The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the temple. A stairway led up to the middle level, and from there to the third floor.
- Ezekiel 40:12 In front of each gate chamber was a wall one cubit high, and the gate chambers were six cubits square.
- Ezekiel 40:17 Then he brought me into the outer court, and there were chambers and a pavement laid out all around the court. Thirty chambers faced the pavement,
- Ezekiel 41:10 and the outer chambers was twenty cubits wide all around the temple.
- Ezekiel 42:13 Then the man said to me, “The north and south chambers facing the temple courtyard are the holy chambers where the priests who approach the LORD will eat the most holy offerings. There they will place the most holy offerings—the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings—for the place is holy.
- Hebrews 10:22 let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.