Yehezkiel 16:17
Konteks16:17 You also took your beautiful jewelry, made of my gold and my silver I had given to you, and made for yourself male images and engaged in prostitution 1 with them.
Yehezkiel 22:9
Konteks22:9 Slanderous men shed blood within you. 2 Those who live within you eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains; 3 they commit obscene acts among you. 4
Yehezkiel 29:14
Konteks29:14 I will restore the fortunes of Egypt, and will bring them back 5 to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin; there they will be an insignificant kingdom.
Yehezkiel 40:13
Konteks40:13 He measured the gateway from the roof of one alcove to the roof of the other, a width of 43¾ feet 6 from one entrance to the opposite one.
[16:17] 1 tn Or perhaps “and worshiped them,” if the word “prostitution” is understood in a figurative rather than a literal sense (cf. CEV, NLT).
[22:9] 2 tn Heb “men of slander are in you in order to shed blood.”
[22:9] 3 tn Heb “and on the mountains they eat within you.” The mountains mentioned here were the site of pagan sacrifices. See 18:6.
[22:9] 4 sn This statement introduces vv. 10-11 and refers in general terms to the sexual sins described there. For the legal background of vv. 10-11, see Lev 18:7-20; 20:10-21; Deut 22:22-23, 30; 27:22.
[29:14] 5 tc Thus the Masoretic Text. The LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate translate as though the Hebrew read “cause to inhabit.”
[40:13] 6 tn Heb “twenty-five cubits” (i.e., 13.125 meters).