Ezekiel 46:20

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.”

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — The visionary guide speaks to Ezekiel at the western end of the northern holy chambers, immediately after showing him the priestly rooms and before leading him to the outer court.

The words — זֶה הַמָּקוֹם (zeh ha-maqom) = this place, and יְבַשְּׁלוּ (yevashshelu) = they will boil.

The thread — The text’s instruction to boil and bake offerings in a designated area aligns with Leviticus 2:4’s regulations for grain offerings baked in an oven and 2 Chronicles 35:13’s account of boiling holy offerings. Ezekiel 44:19 supports this spatial boundary by mandating that priests remove their ministering garments before entering the outer court.

Why it lands — The text states that ritual preparations must remain enclosed to prevent holy items from transferring sacred status to the common people. It requires strict adherence to spatial boundaries in worship to maintain ritual separation.

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The Hebrew words

King James Version

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.

Cross-references

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.
Leviticus 2:4 Now if you bring an offering of grain baked in an oven, it must consist of fine flour, either unleavened cakes mixed with oil or unleavened wafers coated with oil.
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 so that they do not transmit holiness to the people with their garments.
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.
Leviticus 7:1 “Now this is the law of the guilt offering, which is most holy:
1 Samuel 2:13 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