1 sn This promise reflects the ancient covenantal ideal (see Exod 6:7).
2 sn Eating the fat and drinking blood were God’s exclusive rights in Israelite sacrifices (Lev 3:17).
3 tn Or “sacrifice” (so also in the rest of this verse).
3 tc Instead of an energic nun (ן), the text may have read a third masculine plural suffix ם (mem), “them,” which was confused with ן (nun) in the old script. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:621.