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.”

Majority Standard Bible

In The 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.

In Context

19Then the man brought me through the entrance at the side of the gate into the holy chambers facing north, which belonged to the priests, and he showed me a place there at the far western end

21Then he brought me into the outer court and led me around to its four corners, and I saw a separate court in each of its corners.

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Cross References

Exodus 29:31You are to take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in a holy place.

Leviticus 2:3The 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 2:10But 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.

1 Samuel 2:13or 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

Ezekiel 44:19When 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 46:24And he said to me, “These are the kitchens where those who minister at the temple will cook the sacrifices offered by the people.”

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 46:20-24

Buildings about the Temple. ( b. c. 574.) 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. 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. 21 Then he brought me forth into the… Read the whole commentary →

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