translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EZK

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “to eat bread.”


text: The word הִנֵּה ( hinneh , traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.


text: Heb “set your heart” (so also in the latter part of the verse).


text: Heb “Set your mind, look with your eyes, and with your ears hear.”


label: NET textual note

text: The Syriac, Vulgate, and Targum read the plural. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:618.


text: The LXX reads “house of rebellion.”


text: Heb “to desecrate.”


text: The Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions read “you.” The Masoretic text reads “they.”


text: Instead of an energic nun ( ן ), the text may have read a third masculine plural suffix ם ( mem ), “them,” which was confused with ן ( nun ) in the old script. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:621. tn This word is not in the Hebrew text but is supplied from the context.


text: Heb “will bear.”


text: Heb “a stumbling block of iniquity.” This is a unique phrase of the prophet Ezekiel (cf. also Ezek 7:19; 14:3, 4, 7; 18:30 ).


text: Heb “I lifted up my hand.”


text: Heb “from the offspring of the house of Israel.”


text: Heb “sanctify, set apart.”


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


text: One medieval Hebrew ms , the LXX, and the Syriac along with Lev 15:13, 28 read the verb as singular.


text: Heb has in addition “from your contributions,” a repetition unnecessary in English.


text: The words “by a wild animal” are not in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied in the translation as a clarification of the circumstances. sn For this law, see Lev 7:24; 17:15 .