What Does Ezekiel 46:14 Mean?
You prepare a grain gift for him every morning, a sixth part of an ephah, and a third part of a hin of oil, to mix with the fine flour; a grain gift continually, by a statute for the ages to the LORD.
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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
And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat offering continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the LORD.THE KEY
The KJV’s “meat offering” is fine flour and oil: the enduring gift is daily provision, measured and prepared anew.
THE MEANING
You encounter a gift of ordinary food, measured and prepared again each morning. Here continuity takes material form: flour and oil are brought before the LORD as the day begins.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the idea that ordinary, material things cannot carry devotion: here the offering is flour and oil, renewed each morning.
THE ROOT
שֶׁמֶן
shemen
GROWS FROM
שמן
Fatness and richness; the verb describes becoming fat or robust.
English “oil” names the ingredient but hides its kinship with words for fatness and rich food. In this offering, that richness is measured and mixed with fine flour as part of the recurring gift.
ALSO GROWS
shāman: to grow fat, become robust
שָׁמַן
Deuteronomy 32:15 uses this verb for growing fat; it shares the root with the oil measured into this offering.
mashmannim: rich foods, dainties
מַשְׁמַנִּים
Nehemiah 8:10 uses this word for rich foods, showing the root’s connection between oil and nourishing abundance.
THE PATTERN
An offering to God takes shape through repeated acts that mark the rhythm of time.
And the other lamb you offer at evening, and you do with it according to the gift of the morning, and according to its poured offering, for a scent that settles, an offering made by fire to the LORD.To set forth your faithful love in the morning, and your steadiness through the nights.Through him, then, let us always carry up a sacrifice of praise to God, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to his name.THE THREAD
And Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock, and of their fat. And the LORD gazed upon Abel and upon his offering.The word translated “offering” here is מִנְחָה (minchah), meaning a gift or offering, the same Hebrew word used for the flour-and-oil gift in Ezekiel. Its form changes from flock to grain, while the word holds both as presentations brought before the LORD.
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