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Ezekiel 16:24-26
New English Translation
Ezekiel 16:24-26
New English Translation
24 you built yourself a chamber[a] and put up a pavilion[b] in every public square. 25 At the head of every street you erected your pavilion, and you disgraced[c] your beauty when you spread[d] your legs to every passerby and multiplied your promiscuity. 26 You engaged in prostitution with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors,[e] multiplying your promiscuity and provoking me to anger.
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- Ezekiel 16:24 tn The Hebrew גֶּב (gev) may represent more than one word, each rare in the Old Testament. It may refer to a “mound” or to “rafters.” The LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate interpret this as a brothel.
- Ezekiel 16:24 tn Or “lofty place” (NRSV). See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:229, and B. Lang, Frau Weisheit, 137.
- Ezekiel 16:25 tn Heb “treated as if abominable,” i.e., repudiated.
- Ezekiel 16:25 tn The only other occurrence of the Hebrew root is found in Prov 13:3 in reference to the talkative person who habitually “opens wide” his lips.
- Ezekiel 16:26 tn Heb “your neighbors, large of flesh.” The word “flesh” is used here of the genitals. It may simply refer to the size of their genitals in general, or that they are lustful.
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