Ezekiel 6

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Book of Ezekiel 30:13–18 in an English manuscript from the early 13th century, MS. Bodl. Or. 62, fol. 59a. A Latin translation appears in the margins with further interlineations above the Hebrew.
Book Book of Ezekiel
Hebrew Bible part Nevi'im
Order in the Hebrew part7
Category Latter Prophets
Christian Bible part Old Testament
Order in the Christian part26

Ezekiel 6 is the sixth chapter of the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet/priest Ezekiel, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. [1] The high places in the mountains of Israel, "the seats of her idolatry", are the focus of Ezekiel's prophecies in this chapter. [2]

Contents

Text

The original text was written in the Hebrew language. This chapter is divided into 14 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis (895), the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets (916), Aleppo Codex (10th century), Codex Leningradensis (1008). [3]

There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BC. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus (B; B; 4th century), Codex Alexandrinus (A; A; 5th century) and Codex Marchalianus (Q; Q; 6th century). [4] [lower-alpha 1]

Summary

Verse 4

"Then your altars shall be desolate,
your incense altars shall be broken,
and I will cast down your slain men before your idols." (NKJV) [7]

See also

Notes

  1. Ezekiel is missing from Codex Sinaiticus. [5]

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References

  1. Theodore Hiebert, et al. 1996. The New Interpreter's Bible: Volume VI. Nashville: Abingdon.
  2. 1 2 3 Davidson, A. B., (1893), Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges on Ezekiel 6, accessed 7 November 2019
  3. Würthwein 1995, pp. 35–37.
  4. Würthwein 1995, pp. 73–74.
  5. Shepherd, Michael (2018). A Commentary on the Book of the Twelve: The Minor Prophets. Kregel Exegetical Library. Kregel Academic. p. 13. ISBN   978-0825444593.
  6. Clements 1996, p. 26.
  7. Ezekiel 6:4
  8. The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Augmented Third Edition, New Revised Standard Version, Indexed. Michael D. Coogan, Marc Brettler, Carol A. Newsom, Editors. Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 2007. pp. 1188 Hebrew Bible. ISBN   978-0195288810

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