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Ezekiel 45:20

Ezekiel 45:20

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

The same ceremony should be repeated on the seventh day of the month, not on the first day of the seventh month, as Smend proposes, in accordance with the λήψῃ, and on the ground that "the seventh day of (the same) mouth" would have been in Hebrew בְּשִׁבְעָה לֶחֹדֶשׁ, as in ; ; at the same time admitting that בַּחֹדֶשׁ is sometimes used (), though not (except in this verse) by Ezekiel.

The sin offerings in question should be made for (or, on account of, מִן, "away from," expressing the reason why anything is done) every one that erreth, and for him that is simple, i.e. for such transgressors as should have gone aside from the straight path through ignorance or foolishness, the "simple" man being here, as in ; ; , one easily enticed or persuaded to do evil.

For such offenders the Law of Moses provided means of expiation (Le , etc.; ; ); for the presumptuous sinner, who despised the word of the Lord and violated his commandment, only one doom remained, to be cut off from among his people (; ).

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