Ezekiel 45:20 - Exposition

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 Ezekiel 1:1 ; Ezekiel 30:20 ; at the same time admitting that בַּחֹדֶשׁ is sometimes used ( Numbers 10:11 ), 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 Proverbs 7:7 ; Proverbs 22:3 ; Proverbs 27:12 , one easily enticed or persuaded to do evil. For such offenders the Law of Moses provided means of expiation (Le Proverbs 2:2 , etc.; Proverbs 5:15 ; Numbers 15:27 ); 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 ( Numbers 15:30 ; Deuteronomy 17:12 ).