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Ezekiel 45:15 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 15. 15And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for them, saith the Lord GOD.
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Role in This Section
Ezekiel's measured final vision carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel” at Ezekiel 45:15 as part of “People and Prince Share Responsibility for Offerings.”
Read It With
- Ezekiel 45:13–17
The line at Ezekiel 45:15 is one step in Ezekiel 45:13–17. Ezekiel's measured final vision carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel” at Ezekiel 45:15 as part of “People and Prince Share Responsibility for Offerings.” Its force depends on the unit's ancient referent and what follows.
Why It Needs Context
Keep the line with Ezekiel 45:13–17. Ezekiel's measured final vision carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel” at Ezekiel 45:15 as part of “People and Prince Share Responsibility for Offerings.” The literary form and this limit govern it: The system does not authorize compulsory religious extraction, prosperity schemes, or unaccountable rulers.
Continue in Context
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Read Ezekiel 45:13–17 — People and Prince Share Responsibility for OfferingsSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? probable
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Ezekiel 45:13–17, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Ezekiel
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a critical apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Ezek.xml, OSIS 45:13–17
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