Ezekiel 45:21-25

21-25. It is commanded that on the fourteenth day of Abib (compare Exodus 12:6) the passover shall be celebrated (Ezekiel 45:21) and the prince “shall provide” (Ezekiel 45:22-23; compare Ezekiel 45:17) the sin offering and burnt offering. While the Levitical law required only two bullocks, one ram, and seven lambs as the daily offering, this most holy symbolic legislation requires seven bullocks and seven rams, and considerably more flour and oil. In the feast of tabernacles (Ezekiel 45:25; compare Leviticus 23:33, etc.; Numbers 29:13, etc.) he shall offer the same sacrifices as in the passover feast. This divergence from the Levitical legislation is either because the Levitical law, as we now possess it, represents a later and more complex ceremonial than that of Ezekiel, or because there was a symbolic meaning, and therefore spiritual instruction, in these deviations from a well-known and ancient law. That every one of these ceremonial observances pictured visibly some spiritual lesson no one doubts; but just what lesson each sacrifice and offering taught we are not able to tell. (Yet compare notes Ezekiel 43:10-12.)