What Does Ezekiel 43:21 Mean in the King James?

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.

Ezekiel 43:21 · KJV

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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.

“sin offering” 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.

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.

Even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt.

Leviticus 4:12 · KJVThe bullock is carried outside the camp to a clean place and burned there.

And the bullock for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall one carry forth without the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.

Leviticus 16:27 · KJVThe animals whose blood enters the holy place are carried beyond the camp and burned.

For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.

Hebrews 13:11 · KJVThe verse names the same boundary: the bodies are burned outside the camp after the blood is brought into the sanctuary.

THE THREAD

If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin offering.

Leviticus 4:3 · KJV

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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