What Does Ezekiel 46:7 Mean in the King James?

And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his hand shall attain unto, and an hin of oil to an ephah.

Ezekiel 46:7 · KJV

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THE KEY

The measure follows the hand’s reach, while the oil remains proportioned to the offering.

THE MEANING

The offering has a set measure for the bull and ram, while the lambs’ portion follows what the hand can reach. The oil is measured alongside it, one hin to an ephah: the verse holds order and differing capacity together.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the belief that a faithful offering must be identical in amount for every hand; here, the measure can account for capacity.

THE ROOT

תַּשִּׂיג

tassig

GROWS FROM

נשׂג

nasag

To reach, attain, or overtake.

“attain” in this verse is tassig. The root holds both the hand reaching a measure and something catching up to a person. Here, the lambs’ portion follows the hand’s reach; elsewhere the same root can describe either provision or pursuit arriving.

ALSO GROWS

wehissigukha: “And overtake you” (Deuteronomy 28:2).

וְהִשִּׂיגֻךָ

Blessings are pictured as reaching and overtaking a person, extending the root’s sense from a hand’s reach to what arrives.

wayyassigu: “And they overtook” (Exodus 14:9).

וַיַּשִּׂיגוּ

Pursuers catch up with those fleeing; the same root can describe a reach that closes the distance.

THE PATTERN

An offering’s measure can follow the giver’s capacity while remaining ordered.

Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.

Deuteronomy 16:17 · KJVThe amount given corresponds to what each person is able to give.

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.

2 Corinthians 8:12 · KJVThe measure is tied to what a person has, rather than to what is beyond their reach.

THE THREAD

And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.

Deuteronomy 28:2 · KJV

The verb behind “attain” is ⁨נשׂג⁩ (nasag), “to reach or overtake”; the same root appears as “overtake” here. Ezekiel measures the portion by what the hand reaches, while Deuteronomy pictures blessings reaching the person.

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