translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EZK

label: NET translator note

text: Or “spirit.” See note on “wind” in 2:2 .


text: Heb “and he”; the referent (the Lord ) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: The Hebrew verb may mean “think” in this context. This content of what they say (or think) represents their point of view.


text: Heb “she” or “it”; the feminine pronoun refers here to Jerusalem.


text: Heb “fell.”


text: The Hebrew verb commonly means “to say,” but may also mean “to think” (see also v. 3 ).


text: Heb “I know the steps of your spirits.”


text: Heb “placed.”


text: Heb “in its midst.”


text: Heb “she/it.” See v. 3 .


label: NET textual note

text: Many of the versions read “I will bring you out” (active) rather than “he brought out” (the reading of MT).


text: Heb “its midst.”


text: The Hebrew text does not have the negative particle, but it is implied. The negative particle in the previous line does double duty here.


text: The LXX reads this statement as a question. Compare this to the question in 9:8 . It is possible that the interrogative particle has been omitted by haplography. However, an exclamatory statement as in the MT also makes sense and the LXX may have simply tried to harmonize this passage with 9:8 .


text: The MT reads “your brothers, your brothers” either for empahsis (D. I. Block, Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:341, n. 1; 346) or as a result of dittography.


text: The MT reads גְאֻלָּתֶךָ ( gÿ ’ ullatekha , “your redemption-men”), referring to the relatives responsible for deliverance in times of hardship (see Lev 25:25-55 ). The LXX and Syriac read “your fellow exiles,” assuming an underlying Hebrew text of גָלוּתֶךָ ( galutekha ) or having read the א ( aleph ) as an internal mater lectionis for holem .


text: For location see Map5-B1 ; Map6-F3 ; Map7-E2 ; Map8-F2 ; Map10-B3 ; JP1-F4 ; JP2-F4 ; JP3-F4 ; JP4-F4 .


text: The MT has an imperative form (“go far!”), but it may be read with different vowels as a perfect verb (“they have gone far”).


text: Or “have been partially a sanctuary”; others take this as temporal (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV “a little while”).


text: The MT reads “you”; many Hebrew mss along with the LXX and other ancient versions read “within them.”


text: Heb “their flesh.”


text: Heb “heart of flesh.”


text: Heb “their way on their head I have placed.”


text: Heb “lifted.”


text: Heb “stood.”


text: Heb “to Chaldea.”


text: Heb “all the words of.”