What Does Ezekiel 43:25 Mean in the King James?

Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for a sin offering: they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish.

Ezekiel 43:25 · KJV

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THE KEY

The verse holds an offering for what is missing beside a bull and ram described as whole, placing lack and intactness in one scene.

THE MEANING

A goat is prepared each day as an offering for the missing, beside a bull and ram called whole. The repeated preparation gives the passage a daily rhythm in which what is missing is named while intactness is held in view.

THE ROOT

לְחַטָּאת

lechatta't

GROWS FROM

חָטָא

ḥāṭāʾ

To miss or err.

“sin offering” in this verse is lechatta't. The offering’s name carries the same seed as ⁨חָטָא⁩ (chata, to miss) and ⁨חֵטְא⁩ (chet, a missing or failure). The word holds both the ritual offering and the experience of missing within one family.

ALSO GROWS

chata: To miss or err.

חָטָא

This verb is the root action carried inside the name of the offering.

chet: A missing or failure.

חֵטְא

This noun shares the seed that gives the offering its name.

chatta't: An offering for the missing; a sin offering.

חַטָּאת

This is the word used in the verse for the goat’s offering.

תְּמִימִם

temimim

GROWS FROM

תָּמַם

To be complete or whole.

“without blemish” in this verse is temimim. The word describes the bull and ram as whole and sound. Beside ⁨חַטָּאת⁩ (chatta’t, an offering for the missing), it places what is missing and what is intact in the same prepared scene.

ALSO GROWS

tamim: Whole, sound, without blemish.

תָּמִים

This form names the intact condition required of the animals.

tom: Completeness or integrity.

תֹּם

This branch shows the root’s reach beyond outward defect to wholeness.

THE PATTERN

The approach to what is missing takes concrete form in offerings, sometimes arranged in a daily rhythm.

And if he bring a lamb for a sin offering, he shall bring it a female without blemish.

Leviticus 4:32 · KJVA specific animal is prepared as an offering for the missing and is required to be without blemish.

And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering.

Ezekiel 45:23 · KJVThe verse gives offerings for seven days a repeated daily shape and pairs them with animals described as whole.

And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:

Hebrews 10:11 · KJVThe daily repetition makes the recurring sacrificial pattern explicit, while naming its limit.

THE THREAD

And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein.

Leviticus 22:21 · KJV

The word translated “without blemish” in Ezekiel and “perfect” in Leviticus comes from ⁨תָּמַם⁩ (tamam), the root of wholeness. That shared seed lets the requirement read as an intact whole carried into the offering.

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