Ezekiel 46:13-15 - Exposition

supply closing instructions for the daily sacrifice. The daily burnt offering should be a lamb of the first year ; literally, a son of his year ; whereas the Law of Moses required a lamb twice a day ( Exodus 29:38-42 ; Numbers 28:1-8 ). The daily meat (or, meal) offering to accompany this should be the sixth part of an ephah , instead of a tenth as under Moses, and the third part of a hin of oil , instead of a fourth as prescribed by the earlier legislation, to temper with — לָרֹס (from רָסַס , a word peculiar to Ezekiel), to moisten or mix with— the fine flour . These sacrifices should be offered every morning ; literally, morning by morning ; but not every evening as in the Mosaic Law. This difference was not accidental, but intentional, though why in the new order of things the evening sacrifice should have been omitted does not appear. Currey thinks Ezekiel did not intend to enumerate all the sacrifices of the Law, but only a few of them, and that, though not mentioned, the evening sacrifice may have been designed to be retained. The presentation of these sacrifices was not to be the special duty of the prince, but should devolve upon the community as a whole, who are now addressed as "thou" (verses 13, 14) and "they" (verse 15), and who should act in its fulfillment through their priests.