Ezekiel 20:18

20:18 “‘But I said to their children ¹  in the wilderness, “Do not follow the practices of your fathers; do not observe their regulations, ²  nor defile yourselves with their idols.

Ezekiel 44:8

44:8 You have not kept charge of my holy things, but you have assigned foreigners ³  to keep charge of my sanctuary for you.

[20:18]  ¹ tn Heb “sons,” reflecting the patriarchal idiom of the culture.

[20:18]  ² tn Or “standard of justice.” See Ezek 7:27.

[44:8]  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.