What Does Ezekiel 45:22 Mean in the King James?
And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin 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
The one raised above the people stands within the same offering for missing as they do.
THE MEANING
The verse holds the prince and all the people of the land within one offering: he prepares a bullock for himself and for them. His position does not place him outside the need the offering names.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The ruler’s office makes him exempt from the need shared by the people.
THE ROOT
חַטָּאת
chatta’t
GROWS FROM
חטא
To miss, or go wrong.
חַטָּאת (chatta’t) can name both missing and the offering brought in response to it. The root keeps the missing itself visible within the ritual phrase “sin offering.”
ALSO GROWS
chataʾ: To miss; to sin.
חָטָא
The verb names the missing that the offering addresses.
chet: Missing; sin.
חֵטְא
This related noun keeps the condition at the heart of the offering in view.
נָשִׂיא
nasi
GROWS FROM
נשׂא
To lift, carry, or bear.
The title נָשִׂיא (nasi, prince) shares its root with נשׂא (nasaʾ, lift or carry), carrying an image of an elevated office. Yet the verse places the prince within the same offering for missing as all the people.
ALSO GROWS
nasaʾ: To lift, carry, or bear.
נָשָׂא
This verb shares the prince’s root and brings out the title’s sense of being raised up.
massaʾ: A burden or load.
מַשָּׂא
This word from the same root echoes the weight carried by one who bears responsibility.
THE PATTERN
The one who leads remains within the same need for offering as the people led.
When the sin, which they have sinned against it, is known, then the congregation shall offer a young bullock for the sin, and bring him before the tabernacle of the congregation.But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:THE THREAD
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.Psalm 51:4 uses חָטָא (chataʾ, to miss or sin), the verb from the same root as חַטָּאת (chatta’t, missing or an offering for missing). Ezekiel names the offering; the psalm speaks the missing that lies within its name.
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