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Offerings and Feasts
Ezekiel 45:13–25 gives detailed instructions for offerings and feast responsibilities. It shows what the people bring, what the prince must provide, and how particular days are marked by cleansing, sacrifice, and atonement before the Lord Yahweh.
Understanding the passage
The setting of this message
This passage speaks in the form of prophecy and teaching. The Lord Yahweh assigns measured offerings from the land, names duties for the prince and the priest, and sets out dates in the first and seventh months. Its focus stays on ordered worship, appointed feasts, and making atonement for the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 45:13–25Main takeaway
This passage teaches that Israel’s worship was to follow ordered gifts, appointed times, and shared responsibilities connected with atonement before the Lord Yahweh.
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01Measured gifts from produce and flocksThe opening instructions name exact portions from wheat, barley, oil, and the flock. The offering is carefully measured and specified in this teaching.
Explanation
The opening instructions name exact portions from wheat, barley, oil, and the flock. The offering is carefully measured and specified in this teaching. The gifts are said to be for meal offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, and the passage links these offerings with making atonement.
02The people contribute and the prince supplies feast offeringsVerse 16 says all the people of the land give this offering for the prince in Israel. Verse 17 then explains the prince’s responsibility.
Explanation
Verse 16 says all the people of the land give this offering for the prince in Israel. Verse 17 then explains the prince’s responsibility. He must provide the burnt, meal, drink, sin, and peace offerings at feasts, new moons, Sabbaths, and appointed feasts, to make atonement for the house of Israel.
03First-month cleansing for the sanctuary and the houseOn the first day of the first month, a young bull without defect is used to cleanse the sanctuary.
Explanation
On the first day of the first month, a young bull without defect is used to cleanse the sanctuary. The priest applies blood from the sin offering to specific places: the house door posts, the altar ledge corners, and the inner court gate posts. On the seventh day, the same pattern is used for those who err or are simple.
04Passover and the matching feast in the seventh monthThe first month also includes Passover on the fourteenth day, followed by a seven-day feast in which unleavened bread is eaten.
Explanation
The first month also includes Passover on the fourteenth day, followed by a seven-day feast in which unleavened bread is eaten. During those days the prince prepares repeated offerings each day. In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day, he is to do the same for seven days, with matching provision for sin, burnt, meal offerings, and oil.
Questions to explore
Pause, look back at the verses and talk together.
01What specific kinds of produce and animals are included in the offering at the start of the passage?
Read the opening list carefully and note both the named items and the measured portions attached to them.
02How does the passage divide responsibilities between the people, the prince, and the priest?
Compare who gives the offering, who prepares the festival sacrifices, and who applies the blood during cleansing.
03Which dates in the first and seventh months are named, and what worship actions are tied to them?
List the first day, the seventh day, the fourteenth day, and the fifteenth day, then match each one with cleansing or feast instructions.
Read the Bible passage
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Ezekiel 45:13–25
13“ ‘ “This is the offering that you shall offer: the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of wheat, and you shall give the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of barley,
14and the set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, one tenth of a bath out of the cor, which is ten baths, even a homer (for ten baths are a homer),
15and one lamb of the flock out of two hundred, from the well-watered pastures of Israel—for a meal offering, for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make atonement for them,” says the Lord Yahweh.
16“All the people of the land shall give to this offering for the prince in Israel.
17It shall be the prince’s part to give the burnt offerings, the meal offerings, and the drink offerings, in the feasts, and on the new moons, and on the Sabbaths, in all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He shall prepare the sin offering, the meal offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.”
18“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “In the first month, on the first day of the month, you shall take a young bull without defect, and you shall cleanse the sanctuary.
19The priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the door posts of the house, and on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the posts of the gate of the inner court.
20So you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who errs, and for him who is simple. So you shall make atonement for the house.
21“ ‘ “In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.
22On that day the prince shall prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering.
23The seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to Yahweh, seven bulls and seven rams without defect daily the seven days; and a male goat daily for a sin offering.
24He shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for a bull, an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
25“ ‘ “In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, during the feast, he shall do like that for seven days. He shall make the same provision for sin offering, the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the oil.”