What Does Ezekiel 40:39 Mean in the King James?
And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
At the gate’s threshold, what is offered is slaughtered, and the Hebrew name for the tables carries the root of release.
THE MEANING
The porch is not a neutral passage: two tables stand on each side, and the burnt, sin, and trespass offerings are slain there. The Hebrew name for the tables shares the root of sending and release, while the burnt offering carries the sense of ascent in its name.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the idea that the threshold of the sacred is untouched by the cost of missing and trespass: the offerings for both are killed at the gate.
THE ROOT
שֻׁלְחָנוֹת
shulchanot
GROWS FROM
שׁלח
To send, release, let go, or stretch out the hand.
The Hebrew name for the tables carries the root of sending and release. The threshold holds the place where the offering is laid out and released; the table is part of the verse’s movement, not only its furniture.
ALSO GROWS
shalach: To send, release, or let go.
שָׁלַח
The shared root joins the offering tables to the language of release.
Shiloach: Sent forth; the name of the waters of Shiloach.
שִׁלֹחַ
The sent waters show the same root carrying movement outward, as the tables here hold what is released.
חַטָּאת
chattat
GROWS FROM
חטא
To miss or miss the mark.
“sin offering” in this verse is chattat. The offering’s name shares its seed with the word for missing. The verse places this offering beside the burnt and trespass offerings, giving the miss a concrete place within the act of approach.
ALSO GROWS
chata: To miss or incur fault.
חָטָא
The verb and offering share a root, linking the offering to the act of missing.
chet: A miss or missing.
חֵטְא
This branch names the condition associated with the offering.
עֹלָה
olah
GROWS FROM
עלה
To go up or ascend.
“burnt offering” in this verse is olah. The Hebrew name carries the motion of ascent inside the offering itself. Beside the table’s language of release, the verse names what goes up from the threshold.
ALSO GROWS
alah: To go up or ascend.
עָלָה
The verb gives the burnt offering its sense of upward movement.
aliyah: Ascent or going up.
עֲלִיָּה
This noun preserves the same upward motion carried by the offering’s name.
THE PATTERN
The threshold of approach is marked by what is offered and set before God.
If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD.I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.THE THREAD
And the LORD spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me.The Hebrew command behind “let my people go” is שַׁלַּח (shalach), “release” or “send forth,” sharing the root carried by the table word here. That shared seed places release in the threshold’s vocabulary, where the verse locates the slaughter of the offerings.
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