Ezekiel 43:24

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

You shall bring them near before Yahweh, and the priests shall cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering to Yahweh.

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מֶ֔לַח

melach

H4417

“salt”

Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

Appears 29× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 14:3

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H4414

TWOT: 1197a

salt

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

11: words
10: distinct lemmas
Prophets: section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

מֶ֔לַח salt H4417 occurs in 26 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

3 verbs
6 nouns
1 preposition
1 particle

Verb forms

וְהִקְרַבְתָּ֖ם Hiphil · Sequential Perfect
וְהִשְׁלִ֨יכוּ Hiphil · Sequential Perfect
וְהֶעֱל֥וּ Hiphil · Sequential Perfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

יְהוָ֑ה LORD H3068 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 27 words from the Hebrew and 28 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 11 Hebrew tokens and 17 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Ezekiel 43:24 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Leviticus 2:13 Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt; neither shall you allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.
Mark 9:49–50 For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt.
Numbers 18:19 All the heave-offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to Yahweh, have I given you, and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever: it is a covenant of salt forever before Yahweh to you and to your seed with you.
Colossians 4:6 Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
2 Chronicles 13:5 Ought you not to know that Yahweh, the God of Israel, gave the kingdom over Israel to David forever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?
Matthew 5:13 "You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Ezekiel 43:24 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְהִקְרַבְתָּ֖ם לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וְהִשְׁלִ֨יכוּ הַכֹּהֲנִ֤ים עֲלֵיהֶם֙ מֶ֔לַח וְהֶעֱל֥וּ אוֹתָ֛ם עֹלָ֖ה לַֽיהוָֽה

You shall bring them near before Yahweh, and the priests shall cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering to Yahweh.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezekiel 43:24 Septuagint · lemma form

καί προςφέρω ἐναντίον κύριος καί ἐπιῥίπτω ὁ ἱερεύς ἐπί αὐτός ἅλς καί ἀναφέρω αὐτός ὁλοκαύτωμα ὁ κύριος

And you⌃ shall offer them before the Lord, and the priests shall sprinkle salt upon them, and shall offer them up as whole burnt offerings to the Lord.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

וְתִקְרְבִינוּן קֳדָם יְיָ וְיִתְּנוּן כַּהֲנַיָא עֲלֵיהוֹן מִילְחָא וְיִסְקוּן יַתְהוֹן עֲלָתָא קֳדָם יְיָ:

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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Ezekiel 43:24 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Eze 43:24 And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up [for] a burnt offering unto the LORD.

Ver. 24. And the priests shall cast salt upon them.] Christians must "have salt {a} within themselves," {Mar 9:50} and see to it that all their speeches be seasoned with the salt of mortification and discretion; {Eph 4:29 Col 4:6} so shall God make an everlasting covenant with them, even a "covenant of salt." See Lev 2:13.

{a} Plato sal nominat Yεοφιλεστατον diis churis. Nihil utilius sale ac sole. - Coel. Rhodig., lib. vi. cap. 1.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(24) Cast salt.—The word means throw or pour, indicating a more copious use of salt than the seasoning ordained by the law (Lev_2:13).

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

24. The burnt-offering was wholly consumed on the altar, salt being sprinkled on the flesh, Lev_2:13; Mar_9:49.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And thou shalt offer them before the Lord,.... Upon the altar of burnt offering, which stood before the house or temple where Jehovah dwelt, Eze 40:47,

and the priests shall cast salt upon them; which was to be used in all sacrifices under the law, Lev 2:13, this may denote the savoury doctrines and lives of the ministers of the Gospel, who thereby recommend the truths they deliver, concerning a crucified Christ, his blood, righteousness, and sacrifice, to others; see Mat 5:13,

and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the Lord; throughout the whole seven days of the consecration and cleansing of the altar, as follows:

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Thou shalt offer; direct them to offer.

Before the Lord; not only to the Lord, but before the Lord, i.e. before the temple; so the altar stood where the burnt-offering was to be offered.

Cast salt upon them; so the law, Lev 2:13, expressly required, and the priests salted every sacrifice made by fire three times, they say, in the salt chamber, at the bottom of the altar, and when the sacrifice was on the altar. It may allude to the perpetuity of the covenant thus made by sacrifice, and salted; as Num 18:19; 2Ch 13:5.

They; the priests.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Shalt offer - Direct them to offer. Salt - It may allude to the perpetuity of the covenant thus made by sacrifice.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

Ezekiel, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 11 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is melach (“salt”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word melach carries the sense “salt.” How does it shape the verse?
Genesis 14:3 shares the word «salt» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“LORD” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
The verb «וְהִקְרַבְתָּ֖ם» is Hiphil Sequential Perfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 11 Hebrew ↔ 17 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 12 words in this verse.
“LORD” occurs 2× in this single verse.
10 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 11 words in this verse.