What Does Ezekiel 46:5 Mean in the King James?
And the meat offering shall be an ephah for a ram, and the meat offering for the lambs as he shall be 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 lamb offering is measured by the giver’s hand: capacity itself becomes part of the measure.
THE MEANING
You meet a concrete measure alongside a gift proportioned to what the hand can give. The lambs’ offering follows the giver’s capacity, while the oil is still named in a set proportion. Giving here has form without requiring every hand to hold the same amount.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It loosens the belief that every offering must match everyone else’s measure: the lamb offering is shaped by what the hand can give.
THE ROOT
מַתַּת
mattat
GROWS FROM
נתן
natan
Give, set, place.
The phrase rendered “as he shall be able to give” is literally “the gift of his hand” (מַתַּת יָדוֹ, mattat yado), tying the measure to what the giver’s hand places forward. The root נתן (natan), “give, set, place,” makes giving concrete: something is placed into the offering, rather than measured against an invisible standard shared by every giver.
ALSO GROWS
natan: To give, put, or set.
נָתַן
This verb is the root behind the “gift of his hand,” linking the offering to what the hand gives or places forward.
mattanah: Gift or present.
מַתָּנָה
This noun branch makes clear that the giver’s measure takes the form of a concrete gift.
THE PATTERN
Giving can have a stated measure while remaining proportioned to what the giver’s hand can offer.
Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath 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.For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.THE THREAD
Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.Deuteronomy uses the Hebrew phrase מַתְּנַת יָדוֹ (matnat yado), “the gift of his hand,” and נָתַן (natan), “gave”, the same root behind Ezekiel’s wording. The shared root shows the offering’s measure in relation to what the hand has received and can set forward.
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