What Does Ezekiel 45:21 Mean?
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall keep the Passover, a feast of seven days. Unleavened bread shall be eaten.
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King James wording
King James Version
In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.THE KEY
The feast’s name holds the act inside it: Passover is deliverance remembered as being spared.
THE MEANING
Deliverance takes a tangible form here: a set time, a seven-day feast, and unleavened bread eaten. Freedom is not left as an abstract idea; it enters ordinary life through a repeated meal of remembrance.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Deliverance is only an idea to think about, not something that enters embodied life.
THE ROOT
פֶּסַח
pesach
GROWS FROM
פסח
To pass over or spare.
“Passover” in this verse is pesach. The Hebrew noun pesach comes from the same root as the verb for passing over or sparing. The feast’s name carries the act within it: this is a recurring remembrance of being spared through danger.
ALSO GROWS
pasach: Pass over; spare.
פָּסַח
The verb names the act the festival recalls: passing over those marked for protection.
pesach: Passover; the Passover feast.
פֶּסַח
The noun names both the occasion and the deliverance held within its name.
חֹדֶשׁ
chodesh
GROWS FROM
חדש
To be new or renew.
The word for month comes from the root for newness. The timing matters: the feast of release stands at the beginning of a fresh cycle, linking deliverance with renewed time.
ALSO GROWS
chadash: New; renewed.
חָדָשׁ
It makes the month’s renewal audible in the verse’s calendar language.
chodesh: Month; new moon.
חֹדֶשׁ
The word names the period in which this feast returns.
חַג
chag
GROWS FROM
חגג
To keep a feast or celebrate a festival.
Chag, the word for feast, is related to chagag, to celebrate or keep a festival. The observance is an enacted remembrance: release is marked through a recurring feast, not left as an idea alone.
ALSO GROWS
chagag: Celebrate or keep a feast.
חָגַג
The verb shows the feast as an act that is observed, not only a name for a date.
chag: Feast; festival.
חַג
This noun names the recurring observance that carries the Passover remembrance.
THE PATTERN
Deliverance is carried forward through repeated, embodied acts of remembrance.
And this day will be for you a remembrance. You will keep it as a feast to the LORD throughout your generations, a statute for the ages.You shall eat no soured bread with it. Seven days you shall eat unsoured bread with it, the bread of being bent low, for in flight you came out of the land of Egypt, so that you may remember the day you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you show the Lord's death until he comes.THE THREAD
And the blood will be a mark for you upon the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will leap over you, and the blow will not be upon you to ruin you when I strike down the land of Egypt.Ezekiel names the feast pesach; Exodus uses the same root in “I will pass over you.” The feast’s name holds the act of sparing, making the observance a recurring remembrance of deliverance through danger.
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