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Ezekiel 44:30

The Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 44:30

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

A further portion of the priests' emoluments is stated as the first of all the firstfruits of all things—or, of everything (Revised Version), as e.g. of corn, oil, must, and wool—and every oblation ( תְּרוּמָה)—or, heave offering—of all—or, of everything—with the first of the people's dough; or, coarse meal; which again re-echoes the provisions of the Law, the first of the firstfruits being specified in ; ; ; ; the oblation, or terumah (Hebrew), in ; ; and the dough, or coarse meal, or groats, in , .

Ezekiel's supposed (Wellhausen, Smend) silence as regards the firstlings of cattle, which in the book of the covenant () and in the Deuteronomist () are to be eaten by the offerer, but in the priest-code () belong to the priests, is imaginary.

The first of all the firstfruits of everything cannot surely mean of everything except cattle. If Ezekiel does not give the tenths of the tithes to the priests, he still assigns them to the sanctuary (see ).

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