translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EZK

label: NET translator note

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


text: Heb “one thousand cubits” (i.e., 525 meters); this phrase occurs three times in the next two verses.


text: Heb “the sea,” referring to the Dead Sea. This has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “to the sea, those which are brought out.” The reading makes no sense. The text is best emended to read “filthy” (i.e., stagnant). See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:273.


text: Heb “the waters become healed.”


text: Heb “two rivers,” perhaps under the influence of Zech 14:8 . The translation follows the LXX and other ancient versions in reading the singular, which is demanded by the context (see vv. 5-7, 9 b, 12).


text: Heb “will be healed.”


label: NET textual note

text: This translation follows the reading זֶה ( zeh ) instead of גֵּה ( geh ), a nonexistent word, as supported by the LXX.


text: Or “territory”; see D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:715.


text: The grammar is awkward, though the presence of these words is supported by the versions. L. C. Allen ( Ezekiel [WBC], 2:274) suggests that it is an explanatory gloss. sn One portion for Ephraim, the other for Manasseh ( Gen 48:17-20 ).


text: Heb “will fall to you as an inheritance.”


text: Or “valley.” The syntax is difficult. Some translate “to the river,” others “from the river”; in either case the preposition is supplied for the sake of English.