46:1 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: The gate of the inner court that faces east 1 will be closed six working days, but on the Sabbath day it will be opened and on the day of the new moon it will be opened.
10:10 “Also in the time when you rejoice, such as 2 on your appointed festivals or 3 at the beginnings of your months, you must blow with your trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings, so that they may 4 become 5 a memorial for you before your God: I am the Lord your God.”
1 sn The east gate of the outer court was permanently closed (Ezek 44:2).
2 tn The conjunction may be taken as explicative or epexegetical, and so rendered “namely; even; that is,” or it may be taken as emphatic conjunction, and translated “especially.”
3 tn The vav (ו) is taken here in its alternative use and translated “or.”
4 tn The form is the perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive. After the instruction imperfects, this form could be given the same nuance, or more likely, subordinated as a purpose or result clause.
5 tn The verb “to be” (הָיָה, hayah) has the meaning “to become” when followed by the preposition lamed (ל).