Translation commentary on Ezekiel 43:25

For seven days you shall provide daily a goat for a sin offering means that for each of the next five days, making a full week in total, Ezekiel had to provide a male goat as a sin offering (see verse 22). The Hebrew pronoun for you is singular as in the previous verses.

Also a bull and a ram from the flock, without blemish, shall be provided: At the same time the priests had to provide a young bull and a young sheep as sacrifices each day (see verses 23-24). Shall be provided is literally “they shall make/do.” The pronoun “they” refers to the priests. The Hebrew verb here is a very general word that may be rendered “present” (New Jewish Publication Society’s Tanakh), “prepare” (New Century Version, King James Version / New King James Version, New American Standard Bible, Complete Jewish Bible), “offer” (Good News Translation, Contemporary English Version, Revised English Bible, Jerusalem Bible/New Jerusalem Bible, New American Bible, Christian Community Bible), or “sacrifice” (similarly New Living Translation).

New Century Version has the following good model for this verse:

• “You must prepare a goat every day for seven days as a sin offering. Also, the priests must prepare a young bull and male sheep from the flock, which have nothing wrong with them.

Quoted with permission from Gross, Carl & Stine, Philip C. A Handbook on Ezekiel. (UBS Helps for Translators). Miami: UBS, 2016. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .

Subscribe
Notify of
guest
0 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments