Ezekiel 44:30

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The first of all the first fruits of every thing, and every offering of everything, of all your offerings, shall be for the priest: you shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on your house.

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עֲרִסֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙

ʻărîyçâh

H6182

“dough · your”

Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural

Appears 4× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Numbers 15:20

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from an unused root meaning to comminute

TWOT: 1699a

dough, meal, coarse meal, kneading trough - meaning dubious

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 →

19: words
12: distinct lemmas
Prophets: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is עֲרִסֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙ dough H6182 — appearing just 4 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

עֲרִסֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙ dough H6182 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

3 verbs
15 nouns
1 preposition

Verb forms

יִֽהְיֶ֑ה Qal · Imperfect
תִּתְּנ֣וּ Qal · Imperfect
לְהָנִ֥יחַ Hiphil · Infinitive Construct

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

כָּל all H3605 ×5
וְרֵאשִׁית֩ beginning H7225 ×2
תְּר֣וּמַת offering H8641 ×2
לַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים priest H3548 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 45 words from the Hebrew and 46 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 19 Hebrew tokens and 33 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 44:30 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Nehemiah 10:35–37 and to bring the first fruits of our ground, and the first fruits of all fruit of all manner of trees, year by year, to the house of Yahweh;
Numbers 15:19–21 then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a heave-offering to Yahweh.
Numbers 18:12–18 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give to Yahweh, to you have I given them.
Deuteronomy 18:4 The first fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, shall you give him.
2 Chronicles 31:10 Azariah the chief priest, of the house of Zadok, answered him and said, Since [the people] began to bring the offerings into the house of Yahweh, we have eaten and had enough, and have left plenty: for Yahweh has blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.
Exodus 13:2 "Sanctify to me all of the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of animal. It is mine."
Exodus 13:12 that you shall set apart to Yahweh all that opens the womb, and every firstborn which you have that comes from an animal. The males shall be Yahweh's.
Exodus 22:29 "You shall not delay to offer from your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. "You shall give the firstborn of your sons to me.

Exodus 23:19 The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of Yahweh your God. "You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
Numbers 3:13 for all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I made holy to me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and animal. They shall be mine. I am Yahweh."
Deuteronomy 26:10–15 Now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, Yahweh, have given me. You shall set it down before Yahweh your God, and worship before Yahweh your God:
Proverbs 3:9–10 Honor Yahweh with your substance, With the first fruits of all your increase:
James 1:18 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
Numbers 18:27–30 Your heave-offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.
2 Chronicles 31:4–6 Moreover he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to the law of Yahweh.
Malachi 3:10–11 Bring the whole tithe into the store-house, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this," says Yahweh of hosts, "if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for.

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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 44:30 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְרֵאשִׁית֩ כָּל בִּכּ֨וּרֵי כֹ֜ל וְכָל תְּר֣וּמַת כֹּ֗ל מִכֹּל֙ תְּרוּמ֣וֹתֵיכֶ֔ם לַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים יִֽהְיֶ֑ה וְרֵאשִׁ֤ית עֲרִסֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙ תִּתְּנ֣וּ לַכֹּהֵ֔ן לְהָנִ֥יחַ בְּרָכָ֖ה אֶל בֵּיתֶֽךָ

The first of all the first fruits of every thing, and every offering of everything, of all your offerings, shall be for the priest: you shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on your house.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezekiel 44:30 Septuagint · lemma form

ἀπαρχή πᾶς καί ὁ πρωτότοκος πᾶς καί ὁ ἀφαίρεμα πᾶς ἐκ πᾶς ὁ ἀπαρχή σύ ὁ ἱερεύς εἰμί καί ὁ πρωτογένημα σύ δίδωμι ὁ ἱερεύς ὁ τίθημι εὐλογία σύ ἐπί ὁ οἶκος σύ

And the first fruits of all things, and the firstborn of all animals and all offerings, of all your first fruits there shall be a share for the priests; and you⌃ shall give your earliest produce to the priest, to bring your blessings upon your houses.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓

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)

The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

וְרֵישׁ כָּל בִּכּוּרֵי כּוֹלָא וְכָל אַפְרָשׁוּת כּוֹלָא מִכָּל אַפְרְשׁוּתֵיכוֹן לְכַהֲנַיָא יְהֵי וְרֵישׁ אַצְוָתְכוֹן תִּתְּנוּן לְכַהֲנָא לְאַשְׁרָאָה בִרְכְּתָא בְּבֵיתָךְ:

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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 44:30 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 44:30 And the first of all the firstfruits of all [things], and every oblation of all, of every [sort] of your oblations, shall be the priest’s: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house.

Ver. 30. That he may cause the blessing.] Tithe and be rich. See Mal 3:10. {See Trapp on "Mal 3:10"}

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.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

give . . . priest the first . . . that he may cause the blessing to rest-- (Pro 3:9-10; Mal 3:10).

Next: Ezekiel Chapter 45

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

30. And the first] Or, the best. Cf. Exo_23:19; Exo_34:26; Num_18:13; Deu_18:4.

and every oblation] The word sometimes rendered heave offering. Num_15:19; Num_18:19. It means a part taken from a larger whole, cf. Eze_45:1, &c., where the portion of land dedicated to the use of the priests and Levites is so called.

of your dough] The term occurs again only Num_15:20-21; Neh_10:37, and is of doubtful meaning. LXX., dough; Targ. Syr., baking trough; others, coarse meal. On the “blessing,” Mal_3:10; Pro_3:9-10.

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 the first of all the first fruits of all things, and every oblation, of all of every sort of your oblations shall be the priests,.... Suggesting, that their offerings or contributions, which should be made out of their substance, should be in proportion to it, and early as well as free; see Pro 3:9,

ye shall also give unto the priest of your dough; either of the first they made of the new corn of the year, or a piece or cake of whatsoever at any time they made; signifying, that the ministers of the word, that communicate spiritual things to men, should partake of their carnal ones, and have a part and share with them in all good things, in all the enjoyments of life, Co1 9:11,

that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house; that is, that he, the priest or minister of the word, that partakes of the above things, and is comfortably provided for and supported, may pray to the Lord for such who liberally contribute to him; that a blessing may come and abide upon them and their families, and prosperity and success may attend them in their worldly business and employments of life; as well as they and theirs may be blessed with all spiritual blessings, with grace here, and glory hereafter.

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

And the first; so soon as the first-fruits are ripe in the field, your vineyards and olive-yards, &c.; nay, redemption money for the first-born of man was theirs.

Every oblation, whether free-will offering or prescribed.

Of every sort; of what sort soever, whether of flock, or herd, &c.

The first of your dough: it is conceived this was of every mass of dough they made, and of the first of the dough which every year they first made of the new corn, as by the custom of the Jews at this day appears, who, since they cannot give to the priest, will burn a little cake of every batch in the oven.

That he, the priest, may bless and pray for thee.

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

The Pulpit Commentary

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 (hmWrT) 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 Exo_23:19; Exo_34:26; Num_18:13; Deu_18:4; the oblation, or terumah (Hebrew) in Num_15:19 Num_18:19; and the dough, or coarse meal, or groats, in Num_15:20, Num_15:21. Ezekiel"s supposed (Wellhausen, Smend) silence as regards the firstlings of cattle, which in the book of the covenant (Exo_22:29) and in the Deuteronomist (Deu_15:19) are to be eaten by the offerer, but in the priest (Num_18:21) 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 Eze_45:14)

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

And the first - So soon as the first-fruits are ripe in the field, your vineyards, and olive yards. Every oblation - Whether free- will offering, or prescribed. The first of your dough - 'Tis conceived this was of every mass of dough they made, and of the first of the dough, which every year they first made of the new corn, as by the custom of the Jews at this day appears. That he - The priest may bless, and pray for thee.

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

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

General Information:

Yahweh continues giving Ezekiel his message to the house of Israel about the descendants of Zadok who serve as priests.

every contribution, anything from all of your contributions

"every gift of whatever kind from all your gifts" or "all gifts of every sort of all of your gifts"

so that blessing may rest on your house

This phrase means "so that I will bless your family and everything that belongs to you." (See: Idiom)

or animal torn by a beast, whether bird or beast

This can be translated in active form. AT: "or any creature that a bird or a wild animal has torn apart" (See: Active or Passive)

translationWords

firstfruits

priest

meal offering

bless

house

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

to bring enduring blessings into your home [Heb. לְהָנִיחַ,] aposer on O.F., (to cause) to rest, settle, as in (Exod. 10:14): “and it rested (וֳיָנָח) throughout all the borders of Egypt.”

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 19 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʻărîyçâh (“dough”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “dough” (ʻărîyçâh) shape what this verse is saying?
Numbers 15:20 shares the word «dough» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“all” occurs 5× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
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?
The verb «יִֽהְיֶ֑ה» is Qal Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 19 Hebrew ↔ 33 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 24 words in this verse.
“all” occurs 5× in this single verse.
12 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 19 words in this verse.