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Ezekiel 1:18

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1:18 Their rims were high and awesome, 1  and the rims of all four wheels were full of eyes all around.

Ezekiel 44:28

Context

44:28 “‘This will be their inheritance: I am their inheritance, and you must give them no property in Israel; I am their property. 2 

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[1:18]  1 tc The MT reads וְיִרְאָה לָהֶם (vÿyirah lahem, “and fear belonged to them”). In a similar vision in 10:12 the wheels are described as having spokes (יִדֵיהֶם, yideyhem). That parallel would suggest יָדוֹת (yadot) here (written יָדֹת without the mater). By positing both a ד/ר (dalet/resh) confusion and a ת/ה (hey/khet) confusion the form was read as וְיָרֵה (vÿyareh) and was then misunderstood and subsequently written as וְיִרְאָה (vÿyirah) in the MT. The reading וְיִרְאָה does not seem to fit the context well, though in English it can be made to sound as if it does. See W. H. Brownlee, Ezekiel 1-19 (WBC), 8-9. The LXX reads καὶ εἶδον αὐτά (kai eidon auta, “and I saw”), which assumes וָאֵרֶא (vaere’). The existing consonants of the MT may also be read as “it was visible to them.”

[44:28]  2 sn See Num 18:20; Deut 10:9; 18:2; Josh 13:33; 18:7.



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