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Ezekiel 29:3
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Ezekiel 29:3
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
3 Say to him: Thus says the Lord God:
Pay attention! I am against you,
Pharaoh, king of Egypt,
Great dragon[a] crouching
in the midst of the Nile,
Who says, “The Nile belongs to me;
I made it myself!”(A)
Footnotes
- 29:3 Dragon: Hebrew reads tannim, usually translated “jackals,” here a byform of tannin, the mythical dragon, or sea monster, representing chaos (cf. Is 27:1; 51:9; Jer 51:34; Ps 91:13; Jb 7:12), and the crocodile native to the Nile. Nile: the many rivulets of the Nile that branch out into the Delta.
New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)
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