Ezekiel 44:26

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

After he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days.

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טָֽהֳרָת֑וֹ

ṭohŏrâh

H2893

“purification · his”

Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular

Appears 15× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Leviticus 12:4

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H2892

TWOT: 792c

purifying, cleansing, purification, purity, cleanness - purifying, menstruation - cleansing, purification

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 →

6: words
5: distinct lemmas
Prophets: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is טָֽהֳרָת֑וֹ purification H2893 — appearing just 15 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

טָֽהֳרָת֑וֹ purification H2893 occurs in 14 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

1 verb
2 nouns
1 adjective
2 prepositions

Verb forms

יִסְפְּרוּ Qal · Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 11 words from the Hebrew and 13 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 6 Hebrew tokens and 9 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 44:26 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Numbers 6:10–21 On the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 19:11–14 He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days:
Hebrews 9:13–14 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh:

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

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Ezekiel 44:26 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְאַחֲרֵ֖י טָֽהֳרָת֑וֹ שִׁבְעַ֥ת יָמִ֖ים יִסְפְּרוּ לֽוֹ

After he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezekiel 44:26 Septuagint · lemma form

καί μετά ὁ καθαρίζω αὐτός ἑπτά ἡμέρα ἐκἀριθμέω αὐτός

And after he has been cleansed, let him number to himself seven days.

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)

וּבָתַר דְכוּתֵיהּ שַׁבְעָא יוֹמִין יִמְנוּן לֵיהּ:

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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 44:26 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.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Eze 44:26 And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.

Ver. 26. And after he is cleansed.] This is a new sanction in the new temple, as Vatablus observeth.

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

(26) Reckon unto him seven days.—In Eze_44:23-24, the general duties of the priests are prescribed in terms taken from the Mosaic law, and in Eze_44:25-27 special instructions are given about the defilement from a dead body. These are in general an exact repetition of Lev_21:1-4; but, in accordance with the principle mentioned in the last Note, there is added to the ordinary cleansing of seven days (Num_19:11-17) another period of seven days, after which Ezekiel requires (Eze_44:27) the priest to offer a sin offering before entering again on his duties.

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

26. after he is cleansed] i.e. the priest. The length of time during which he shall remain unclean is not stated. In ordinary cases he who touched a dead body was unclean seven days (Num_19:11). After his cleansing the priest must count seven days, which would imply exclusion from his official duties for 14 days.

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 after he is cleansed,.... From any sin or iniquity, failing and imperfection, that he has been guilty of at such seasons, in mourning for the dead, by a fresh application of the blood of Christ, which cleanses from all sin; typified by the water of separation, made of the ashes of the red heifer, by which those who were in this way ceremoniously unclean were cleansed, Heb 9:13,

they shall reckon unto him seven days; that is, seven days shall be reckoned from the time of his cleansing, before he enters on public service again: according to the old law, seven days were reckoned from the defilement to the purification; here seven more are numbered after the purification is made; and therefore, as Kimchi truly notes, this is a new law or rule, to be observed in after times.

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

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

CHAPTER XLIV.

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

After he is cleansed; after that for seven days he hath kept from the dead, by which the Jews accounted a man was cleansed, for as nearness did defile, so absence did cleanse in this case.

They, the priests, who are about the house of God,

shall reckon unto him seven days; shall appoint seven days more to this defiled person for his cleansing, before he is admitted into the sanctuary.

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

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

26, 27. The ordinary person was counted unclean for seven days after touching a dead body (Num_29:11), but the priest must wait another seven days, after which he could offer his sin offering (xliii, 19) and return to his duties.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Cleansed - After for seven days he hath kept from the dead. They - The priests, who are about the house of God, shall appoint seven days more to this defiled person for his cleansing before he is admitted into the sanctuary.

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

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

And after his purification and after he has separated from the corpse. So was it taught in Moed Katan (15b).

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

Lesson kit

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Ezekiel, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 6 words (5 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ṭohŏrâh (“purification”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “purification” (ṭohŏrâh) shape what this verse is saying?
How does Leviticus 12:4, which shares the word «purification», read alongside this verse?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
«יִסְפְּרוּ» is a Qal Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 6 Hebrew ↔ 9 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 11 words in this verse.
5 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.