What Does Ezekiel 43:21 Mean?
And you shall take the young bull of the offering for falling short, and burn it in the appointed place of the house, outside the set-apart place.
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Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering, and he shall burn it in the appointed place of the house, without the sanctuary.THE KEY
The offering associated with the missing has a designated place beyond the sanctuary’s set-apart boundary.
THE MEANING
You meet a clear boundary here: the bullock associated with the missing is burned at its appointed place outside the sanctuary. The verse holds the process in view as present truth: the missing is named, and its offering has a designated place beyond what is set apart.
THE ROOT
חַטָּאת
chatta’t
GROWS FROM
חטא
ḥṭʾ
To miss, err, or go wrong.
“offering for falling short” in this verse is chatta’t. חַטָּאת (chatta’t) can name both a missing and the offering associated with it; the same word family appears in the verb חָטָא (chata), to miss or err. English separates the act and the offering into different labels, while the root keeps their relation visible.
ALSO GROWS
chata: To miss or err.
חָטָא
This verb shares the offering’s root, tying the offering to the missing it addresses.
chet: A missing, error, or offense.
חֵטְא
This noun makes the root’s connection to the missing itself visible beneath the English phrase “sin offering.”
מִקְדָּשׁ
miqdash
GROWS FROM
קדש
q-d-sh
To set apart, make distinct.
“set-apart place” in this verse is miqdash. The root of מִקְדָּשׁ (miqdash) also names what is set apart. So “outside the sanctuary” marks a real boundary: the place of burning is beyond what is set apart, not an interchangeable part of it.
ALSO GROWS
qadosh: Set apart.
קָדוֹשׁ
This adjective shares the sanctuary’s root and reveals the quality that defines the space.
qodesh: Set-apartness; what is sacred.
קֹדֶשׁ
This noun carries the same idea of distinction that gives the sanctuary its name.
THE PATTERN
The animal associated with a sin offering is carried beyond the sacred boundary and burned there.
And he carries the whole young bull out beyond the camp to a clean place, to the pouring place of the ashes, and he burns it on wood with fire, and it is burned upon the pouring place of the ashes.The bullock and the goat, the offerings for falling short, whose blood is brought within to make a covering in the set-apart place, one carries outside the camp. And they burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.For the bodies of those living ones, whose blood is carried into the set-apart places by the high priest for falling short, are burned outside the camp.THE THREAD
If the anointed priest misses the mark so as to bring guilt upon the people, then let him bring near, for his falling short in which he has missed the mark, a young bull without blemish to the LORD as an offering for falling short.Ezekiel’s חַטָּאת (chatta’t), “sin offering,” shares its root with חָטָא (chata), “to miss or err,” the verb repeated here for sinning. The root holds the missing and the offering associated with it together; Ezekiel then shows where the bullock is burned.
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