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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.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The Lord speaks through Ezekiel to the exiled community regarding the material provisions for the priestly line. This directive occurs within a broader vision of temple restoration that reassigns priestly sustenance away from land inheritance.
The words — The text highlights חֵרֶם (cherem), literally "devoted thing," alongside the grain, sin, and guilt offerings. These terms designate property permanently consecrated for priestly use rather than ordinary circulation.
The thread — This assignment of devoted items to the priests parallels Numbers 18:14, which grants Israel’s cherem to the priestly tribe. Leviticus 27:21 and 27:28 further define cherem as irrevocably holy property that cannot be redeemed or transferred.
Why it lands — The verse requires the community to financially sustain the priestly ministry through designated offerings and consecrated property. It establishes a clear boundary between sacred provision and ordinary ownership.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.
Cross-references
- 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 6:14 Now this is the law of the grain offering: Aaron’s sons shall present it before the LORD in front of the altar.
- Leviticus 6:26 The priest who offers it shall eat it; it must be eaten in a holy place, in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting.
- Leviticus 6:29 Any male among the priests may eat it; it is most holy.
- Leviticus 7:6 Every male among the priests may eat of it. It must be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.
- Leviticus 2:3 The remainder of the grain offering shall belong to Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the food offerings to the LORD.
- Leviticus 2:10 But the remainder of the grain offering shall belong to Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the food offerings to the LORD.
- Numbers 18:9 A portion of the most holy offerings reserved from the fire will be yours. From all the offerings they render to Me as most holy offerings, whether grain offerings or sin offerings or guilt offerings, that part belongs to you and your sons.