Yehezkiel 16:4
Konteks16:4 As for your birth, on the day you were born your umbilical cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water; 1 you were certainly not rubbed down with salt, nor wrapped with blankets. 2
Yehezkiel 16:9
Konteks16:9 “‘Then I bathed you in water, washed the blood off you, and anointed you with fragrant oil.
[16:4] 1 tn Heb “in water you were not washed for cleansing” or “with water you were not washed smooth” (see D. I. Block, Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:473, n. 57, for a discussion of possible meanings of this hapax legomenon).
[16:4] 2 sn Arab midwives still cut the umbilical cords of infants and then proceed to apply salt and oil to their bodies.