What Does Ezekiel 46:11 Mean in the King James?
And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat offering shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to the lambs as he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
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 lambs’ offering is measured by what the giver’s hand can give, so capacity itself becomes part of the sacred measure.
THE MEANING
The verse holds a measured offering before you: an ephah for the bull and for the ram, while the lambs’ measure follows what the giver’s hand can give, with oil measured alongside. It places exact quantities beside a portion shaped by the giver’s available means.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that a sacred offering must look identical in every hand; the lambs’ measure follows what the giver can give.
THE ROOT
מַתַּת יָדוֹ
mattat yado
GROWS FROM
נתן
n-t-n
Give, put, or set in place.
The phrase translated “as he is able to give” is literally “the gift of his hand,” making capacity a tangible measure. This word-family moves between giving and gift, so the lamb portion is described through what the hand can place into the offering.
ALSO GROWS
natan: Give, put, or set.
נָתַן
The root names the act of giving that makes the offering possible.
mattanah: Gift or present.
מַתָּנָה
This related form makes the link between the giver’s hand and the offering’s measure explicit.
THE PATTERN
The measure of a gift is joined to what is actually in the giver’s hand.
Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.THE THREAD
Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.Ezekiel’s mattat yado (מַתַּת יָדוֹ, “gift of his hand”) echoes Deuteronomy’s kematnat yado (כְּמַתְּנַת יָדוֹ, “according to the gift of his hand”), both tied to נתן (natan, “give”). Deuteronomy adds that the hand’s gift corresponds to what the LORD has given.
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