translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EZK

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).


text: Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).


text: Heb “strayed off.”


text: Or “holy.”


text: Heb “five thousand cubits” (i.e., 2.625 kilometers).


text: Heb “four thousand five hundred cubits” (i.e., 2.36 kilometers); the phrase occurs three more times in this verse.


text: Heb “two hundred fifty cubits” (i.e., 131.25 meters); the phrase occurs three more times in this verse.


text: Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers); the phrase occurs again later in this verse.


text: Traditionally “the Brook of Egypt,” although a number of recent translations have “the Wadi of Egypt” (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV). The word “Egypt” is not in the Hebrew text, but is implied.


text: Heb “four thousand five hundred cubits” (i.e., 2.36 kilometers); the phrase occurs again in vv. 32-34 .


text: Heb “eighteen thousand cubits” (i.e., 9.45 kilometers).