Ezekiel 46:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Where the priests shall boil the trespass-offering; those that were brought sacrifices for sin were in part for the sacrificing priest, and he was to eat thereof; but it was to be dressed in the verge of holy ground, and so kitchens, boilers, ovens, and other utensils were prepared to do it, and these kitchens are here described, That they bear them not; the priests, or the attending Levites. Into the utter court, where the people were, and many times in great numbers, that this holy flesh must needs be very near many of them, if it were carried out. To sanctify the people: see Ezekiel 44:19.

Ezekiel 46:20

20 Then said he unto me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the meat offering; that they bear them not out into the utter court, to sanctify the people.