Ezekiel 16:26

16:26 You engaged in prostitution with the Egyptians, your sexually aroused neighbors, ¹  multiplying your promiscuity and provoking me to anger.

Ezekiel 20:48

20:48 And everyone ²  will see that I, the Lord, have burned it; it will not be extinguished.’”

Ezekiel 23:20

23:20 She lusted after their genitals – as large as those of donkeys, ³  and their seminal emission was as strong as that of stallions.

Ezekiel 40:43

40:43 There were hooks ⁴  three inches ⁵  long, fastened in the house all around, and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.

Ezekiel 11:19

11:19 I will give them one heart and I will put a new spirit within them; ⁶  I will remove the hearts of stone from their bodies ⁷  and I will give them tender hearts, ⁸ 

Ezekiel 21:4-5

21:4 Because I will cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked, my sword will go out from its sheath against everyone ⁹  from the south ¹⁰  to the north. 21:5 Then everyone will know that I am the Lord, who drew my sword from its sheath – it will not be sheathed again!’

Ezekiel 36:26

36:26 I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will remove the heart of stone ¹¹  from your body and give you a heart of flesh. ¹² 

Ezekiel 37:6

37:6 I will put tendons ¹³  on you and muscles over you and will cover you with skin; I will put breath ¹⁴  in you and you will live. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

Ezekiel 39:18

39:18 You will eat the flesh of warriors ¹⁵  and drink the blood of the princes of the earth – the rams, lambs, goats, and bulls, all of them fattened animals of Bashan.

Ezekiel 4:14

4:14 And I said, “Ah, sovereign Lord, I have never been ceremonially defiled before. I have never eaten a carcass or an animal torn by wild beasts; from my youth up, unclean meat ¹⁶  has never entered my mouth.”

Ezekiel 44:7

44:7 When you bring foreigners, those uncircumcised in heart and in flesh, into my sanctuary, you desecrate ¹⁷  it – even my house – when you offer my food, the fat and the blood. You ¹⁸  have broken my covenant by all your abominable practices.

Ezekiel 44:9

44:9 This is what the sovereign Lord says: No foreigner, who is uncircumcised in heart and flesh among all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, will enter into my sanctuary. ¹⁹ 

Ezekiel 39:17

39:17 “As for you, son of man, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Tell every kind of bird and every wild beast: ‘Assemble and come! Gather from all around to my slaughter ²⁰  which I am going to make for you, a great slaughter on the mountains of Israel! You will eat flesh and drink blood.

[16:26]  ¹ 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, as the translation suggests, depicts them as sexually aroused.

[20:48]  ² tn Heb “all flesh.”

[23:20]  ³ tn Heb “She lusted after their concubines (?) whose flesh was the flesh of donkeys.” The phrase “their concubines” is extremely problematic here. The pronoun is masculine plural, suggesting that the Egyptian men are in view, but how concubines would fit into the picture envisioned here is not clear. Some suggest that Ezekiel uses the term in an idiomatic sense of “paramour,” but this still fails to explain how the pronoun relates to the noun. It is more likely that the term refers here to the Egyptians’ genitals. The relative pronoun that follows introduces a more specific description of their genitals.

[40:43]  ⁴ tc This reading is supported by the Aramaic Targum. The LXX, Vulgate, and Syriac read “shelves” or some type of projection.

[40:43]  ⁵ tn Heb “one handbreadth” (7.5 cm).

[11:19]  ⁵ tc The MT reads “you”; many Hebrew mss along with the LXX and other ancient versions read “within them.”

[11:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “their flesh.”

[11:19]  ⁷ tn Heb “heart of flesh.”

[21:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “all flesh” (also in the following verse).

[21:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “Negev.” The Negev is the south country.

[36:26]  ⁷ sn That is, a heart which symbolizes a will that is stubborn and unresponsive (see 1 Sam 25:37). In Rabbinic literature a “stone” was associated with an evil inclination (b. Sukkah 52a).

[36:26]  ⁸ sn That is, a heart which symbolizes a will that is responsive and obedient to God.

[37:6]  ⁸ tn The exact physiological meaning of the term is uncertain. In addition to v. 8, the term occurs only in Gen 32:33; Job 10:11; 40:17; and Jer 48:4.

[37:6]  ⁹ tn Or “a spirit.”

[39:18]  ⁹ sn See Rev 19:17-18.

[4:14]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew term refers to sacrificial meat not eaten by the appropriate time (Lev 7:18; 19:7).

[44:7]  ¹¹ tn Heb “to desecrate.”

[44:7]  ¹² tc The Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions read “you.” The Masoretic text reads “they.”

[44:9]  ¹² sn Tobiah, an Ammonite (Neh 13:8), was dismissed from the temple.

[39:17]  ¹³ tn Or “sacrifice” (so also in the rest of this verse).