What Does Ezekiel 46:13 Mean in the King James?

Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the LORD of a lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt prepare it every morning.

Ezekiel 46:13 · KJV

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THE KEY

The burnt offering is an ascent by name, and this verse places that ascent at the start of every day.

THE MEANING

The verse holds a daily offering before you: a lamb in its first year, whole, prepared every morning for the LORD. The Hebrew name for the burnt offering, ʿōlāh, carries the sense of rising, so the morning act is both sacrifice and ascent. The repeated rhythm is part of the verse’s meaning, not an isolated gesture.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The sacred belongs only to rare, dramatic moments. Here, the offering returns day after day, every morning.

THE ROOT

עֹלָה

ʿōlāh

GROWS FROM

עלה

To go up, rise, or ascend.

The word translated “burnt offering” carries the movement of going up. The offering is named not only by what is placed on the altar, but by its ascent toward the LORD; here that ascent is prepared again each morning.

ALSO GROWS

ʿālāh: To go up or ascend.

עָלָה

This verb is the root itself, making the upward movement inside ʿōlāh audible.

maʿălāh: An ascent, step, or degree.

מַעֲלָה

This related noun preserves the root’s upward movement, like the “degrees” in the biblical heading “Song of degrees.”

ʿăliyyāh: Ascent or going up.

עֲלִיָּה

This noun makes explicit the rising carried by the offering’s name.

תָּמִים

tamim

GROWS FROM

תמם

To be complete or whole.

“without blemish” in this verse is tamim. Tamim describes more than a surface without damage: it carries the sense of wholeness or completeness. The lamb prepared for the offering is named as intact, and that detail stands beside the upward movement in ʿōlāh.

ALSO GROWS

tam: Whole, complete, or blameless.

תָּם

This related form shows the same root’s sense of integrity in a person or thing.

tom: Integrity or completeness.

תֹּם

This noun brings out the quality of wholeness carried by tamim in the verse.

THE PATTERN

Offering is a recurring presentation before God, from the daily altar to a life presented in service.

Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually.

Exodus 29:38 · KJVLike Ezekiel’s verse, this names the offering as a repeated daily rhythm, not a single occasion.

Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.

Psalm 51:19 · KJVThe verse holds burnt offering and wholeness together, echoing Ezekiel’s whole lamb prepared for the altar.

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.

Romans 12:1 · KJVThe image of offering continues as a life presented to God, extending the altar’s language into daily living.

THE THREAD

And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Genesis 8:20 · KJV

Ezekiel’s daily lamb and the burnt offerings in Genesis share the Hebrew word-family of ʿōlāh, “burnt offering,” rooted in ʿālāh, “to rise.” In both verses, the name carries the image of ascent alongside what is placed on the altar.

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