Albert Barnes Commentary Ezekiel 45:13-17

"This is the oblation that ye shall offer: the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of wheat; and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of barley; and the set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, [which is] ten baths, even a homer; (for ten baths are a homer;) and one lamb of the flock, out of two hundred, from the well-watered pastures of Israel; -for a meal-offering, and for a burnt-offering, and for peace-offerings, to make atonement for them, saith the Lord Jehovah. All the people of the land shall give unto this oblation for the prince in Israel. And it shall be the prince`s part to give the burnt-offerings, and the meal-offerings, and the drink-offerings, in the feasts, and on the new moons, and on the sabbaths, in all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin-offering, and the meal-offering, and the burnt-offering, and the peace-offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel." — Ezekiel 45:13-17 (ASV)

The offerings were to be made by the people through the prince for the service of the sanctuary. In the Mosaic Law, the offerings for the sacrifices of the ordinary festivals were left to the free will of the people. Here, however, they are reduced to a regular order, and the amounts are ordained.

In later days, there were often shortcomings in these respects (Malachi 3:8). This system prevents such shortcomings, and regularity is ensured in the new order of things.

No mention is made of wine for the drink-offering or of bullocks for the burnt-offering, so the enumeration is not complete.

The term Cor is translated “measure” in 1 Kings 5:11... Here it is a synonym for “homer.”

The people’s gifts were to be placed in the hands of the prince to form a common stock, from which the prince was to provide what was necessary for each sacrifice (Ezekiel 45:17; compare 1 Kings 8:62; Ezra 7:17). The prince then handed the gifts to the priests, whose role it was to sacrifice and offer them. However, the prominent part assigned to the prince in “making reconciliation for the sins of the people” appears to typify the union of the kingly and priestly offices in the person of the Mediator of the New Covenant.