Holy Orthodox Bible, part 5

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Ezekiel 27 (LXX)

Chapter 27

And the word of the Lord came to me saying, 2 And thou, O son of man, take up a lamentation over Sor, 3 and thou shall say to Sor, which lives at the entrance of the sea, to the market place of the people coming from many islands, Thus saith * the Lord * to Sor *, Thou have said, I have clothed Myself with My beauty. 4 In the heart of the sea * of Beeleim thy sons have clothed thee with beauty. 5 Cedar from * Saneir was used for thee in building; timber planks of cypress were taken from Lebanon to make fir-tree masts for thee. 6 They made thine oars of wood from out of the land of Basan; they made thy temples from ivory, thine woodland houses from the islands of * Hetiem. 7 Also, fine linen with embroidery from out of Egypt became your bedspread, so as to envelop thee with glory, and to clothe thee with blue and purple from the islands of Elisai; and they became thy coverings.


* Codex Alexandrinus reads: “Adonai the Lord, THE LORD”, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus reads: “the Lord, THE LORD”.

* Codex Alexandrinus reads: “over Sor”.

* The margin notes for Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus read: “the beacon of solidarity”.

* Alfred Rahlfs’s Septuaginta reads: “of Beelim”, Ziegler’s LXX text reads: “of Gobelin”, Symmachus’ LXX text reads: “thy builders, through thy borders, have consummated thy beauty”, the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text reads: “are thy borders”.

* Codex Vaticanus reads: “Seneir”.

* Codex Vaticanus reads: “Hettein”, Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus read: “Hettiemi”, the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text reads: “Heteim”. This is generally understood to be a reference to the Island of Cypress where the Phoenicians had a trading colony on the southeast coast.

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Ezekiel (LXX)

Chapter 27

8 And thy rulers, those who live in Sidon, and the Aradians became thy oarsmen. Thy wise men, O Sor, who were among thee, these were thy navigators. 9 The elders of the Byblians, and their wise men, who were among thee, these strengthened thy counsel, and all the ships of the sea and their oarsmen became thine unto the west of the west. 10 Persians and Lydians and Libyans were in thy force; thy men of war hung up in thee shields and helmets; these gave thee thy splendor. 11 The sons of the Aradians and thy force were upon thy walls *, and * guards in thy towers. They hung their quivers upon thy moorings all around; these completed thy beauty. 12 The Carthaginians were thy merchants because of the abundance of all thy * strength; they furnished thy market with silver, and gold, * and iron, and tin, and lead. 13 Greece, and her fullness, and her adjacent regions, these traded with thee in the * lives of men, and items of bronze as thy merchandise.


* Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus add: “all around”.

* The margin notes for Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus read: “also the Medes as”.

* The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text reads: “power”.

* Codex Alexandrinus adds: “and bronze”.

* i.e. Slaves.

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Ezekiel (LXX)

Chapter 27

And the word of the Lord came to me saying, 2 And thou, O son of man, take up a lamentation over Sor, 3 and thou shall say to Sor, which lives at the entrance of the sea, to the market place of the people coming from many islands, Thus saith * the Lord * to Sor *, Thou have said, I have clothed Myself with My beauty. 4 In the heart of the sea * of Beeleim thy sons have clothed thee with beauty. 5 Cedar from * Saneir was used for thee in building; timber planks of cypress were taken from Lebanon to make fir-tree masts for thee. 6 They made thine oars of wood from out of the land of Basan; they made thy temples from ivory, thine woodland houses from the islands of * Hetiem. 7 Also, fine linen with embroidery from out of Egypt became your bedspread, so as to envelop thee with glory, and to clothe thee with blue and purple from the islands of Elisai; and they became thy coverings. 8 And thy rulers, those who live in Sidon, and the Aradians became thy oarsmen. Thy wise men, O Sor, who were among thee, these were thy navigators. 9 The elders of the Byblians, and their wise men, who were among thee, these strengthened thy counsel, and all the ships of the sea and their oarsmen became thine unto the west of the west. 10 Persians and Lydians and Libyans were in thy force; thy men of war hung up in thee shields and helmets; these gave thee thy splendor. 11 The sons of the Aradians and thy force were upon thy walls *, and * guards in thy towers. They hung their quivers upon thy moorings all around; these completed thy beauty. 12 The Carthaginians were thy merchants because of the abundance of all thy * strength; they furnished thy market with silver, and gold, * and iron, and tin, and lead. 13 Greece, and her fullness, and her adjacent regions, these traded with thee in * the lives of men, and items of bronze as thy merchandise.
14 From out of the house of * Thergama horses and horsemen * were furnished for thy market. 15 The sons of the * Rhodians were thy merchants; from the islands they multiplied thy commerce, even in elephants’ tusks, and for the imports thou would exchange thy wages, 16 even men as thy merchandise, from the multitude of thy trading population, myrrh and embroidered fabrics from * Tharsis, and Ramoth, and also Horchor as well furnished thy market. 17 Judah and the sons of Israel, these were thy merchants; in the sale of grain and myrrh and cassia, and they gave the best honey, and oil, and resin, to thy trading population. 18 The people of Damascus were thy merchants by reason of the abundance of all thy power; wine from out of Helbon, and * wool from out of Miletus; and they furnished wine to thy market.


* Codex Alexandrinus reads: “Adonai the Lord, THE LORD”, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus reads: “the Lord, THE LORD”.

* Codex Alexandrinus reads: “over Sor”.

* The margin notes for Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus read: “the beacon of solidarity”.

* Alfred Rahlfs’s Septuaginta reads: “of Beelim”, Ziegler’s LXX text reads: “of Gobelin”, Symmachus’ LXX text reads: “thy builders, through thy borders, have consummated thy beauty”, the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text reads: “are thy borders”.

* Codex Vaticanus reads: “Seneir”.

* Codex Vaticanus reads: “Hettein”, Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus read: “Hettiemi”, the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text reads: “Heteim”. This is generally understood to be a reference to the Island of Cypress where the Phoenicians had a trading colony on the southeast coast.

* Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus add: “all around”.

* The margin notes for Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus read: “also the Medes as”.

* The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text reads: “power”.

* Codex Alexandrinus adds: “and bronze”.

* i.e. Slaves.

* Codex Vaticanus reads: “Thaigrama”, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text read: “Thorgama”.

* Codex Alexandrinus, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “and mules”.

* Codex Alexandrinus reads: “Aradians”, the marginal notes to Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus read: “…Rhodians, who have a discerning eye…”

* Codex Alexandrinus reads: “Tharris, and Rammoth, and also Korchorus”, the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text reads: “Tharsis, and Raamoth, and also Kodchod”.

* The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text and the marginal notes to Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus add: “glistening” or “shinning”.

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Ezekiel (LXX)

Chapter 27

And the word of the Lord came to me saying, 2 And thou, O son of man, take up a lamentation over Sor, 3 and thou shall say to Sor, which lives at the entrance of the sea, to the market place of the people coming from many islands, Thus saith * the Lord * to Sor *, Thou have said, I have clothed Myself with My beauty. 4 In the heart of the sea * of Beeleim thy sons have clothed thee with beauty. 5 Cedar from * Saneir was used for thee in building; timber planks of cypress were taken from Lebanon to make fir-tree masts for thee. 6 They made thine oars of wood from out of the land of Basan; they made thy temples from ivory, thine woodland houses from the islands of * Hetiem. 7 Also, fine linen with embroidery from out of Egypt became your bedspread, so as to envelop thee with glory, and to clothe thee with blue and purple from the islands of Elisai; and they became thy coverings. 8 And thy rulers, those who live in Sidon, and the Aradians became thy oarsmen. Thy wise men, O Sor, who were among thee, these were thy navigators. 9 The elders of the Byblians, and their wise men, who were among thee, these strengthened thy counsel, and all the ships of the sea and their oarsmen became thine unto the west of the west. 10 Persians and Lydians and Libyans were in thy force; thy men of war hung up in thee shields and helmets; these gave thee thy splendor. 11 The sons of the Aradians and thy force were upon thy walls *, and * guards in thy towers. They hung their quivers upon thy moorings all around; these completed thy beauty. 12 The Carthaginians were thy merchants because of the abundance of all thy * strength; they furnished thy market with silver, and gold, * and iron, and tin, and lead. 13 Greece, and her fullness, and her adjacent regions, these traded with thee in * the lives of men, and items of bronze as thy merchandise.
14 From out of the house of * Thergama horses and horsemen * were furnished for thy market. 15 The sons of the * Rhodians were thy merchants; from the islands they multiplied thy commerce, even in elephants’ tusks, and for the imports thou would exchange thy wages, 16 even men as thy merchandise, from the multitude of thy trading population, myrrh and embroidered fabrics from * Tharsis, and Ramoth, and also Horchor as well furnished thy market. 17 Judah and the sons of Israel, these were thy merchants; in the sale of grain and myrrh and cassia, and they gave the best honey, and oil, and resin, to thy trading population. 18 The people of Damascus were thy merchants by reason of the abundance of all thy power; wine from out of Helbon, and * wool from out of Miletus; and * they furnished wine to thy market. 19 From out of Asel came wrought iron and casting, these are among thy trading items. 20 The people of Daedan are thy merchants, with prime beasts for chariots. 21 Arabia and all the rulers of Kedar, these are thy merchants trading camels through thy hand, and lambs, and rams, in which they trade with thee. 22 * The merchants of * Sabba and * Ragma, these are thy merchants with the finest of spices, and precious stones, and they furnished gold to thy market. 23 * Harran, and Hanna, these are thy merchants; Assour, and Harman, are thy merchants; 24 bringing merchandise of blue * and prime treasures * bound with cords, and cypress wood. 25 * Thy ships, which in them are Carthaginians, are thy merchants, in the abundance of thy trading population, and thou were filled and exceedingly heavily loaded in the heart of the sea. 26 Thy oarsmen have led thee into much water; the south wind wreaked thee in the heart of the sea. 27 They were thy forces, and thy wage, and of thy trading items, and thy oarsmen, and thy navigators, and thy counselors, and they that are dealers in various items with thee, and all thy men, thy warriors that are in thee; and all thy gathering in the midst of thee shall fall in the heart of the sea, in the day of thy downfall. 28 At the sound of thy cry thy navigators shall be terrified with fear. 29 And all * the oarsmen and the crewmen and the officers of the sea shall come down from the ships and stand on the ground. 30 And they shall wail over thee with their voice, and cry bitterly, and put earth upon their heads, and spread a bed of ashes under them. * 32 And their sons shall take up a lament over thee, even a lamentation for Sor, saying, * 33 How great of a wage have thou found from the sea? Thou filled up nations out of thine abundance, and out of thy merchandise thou enriched all the kings of the earth. 34 Now art thou smashed to pieces in the sea, thy merchandise, and thy entire gathering are in the depth of the water in thy midst. All thy oarsmen have fallen. 35 All the inhabitants of the islands became upset over thee, and their kings became amazed with amazement, and their faces wept. 36 Merchants from the nations hissed at thee; thou have become destruction, and thou shall not be any more forever.

* Codex Alexandrinus reads: “Adonai the Lord, THE LORD”, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus reads: “the Lord, THE LORD”.

* Codex Alexandrinus reads: “over Sor”.

* The margin notes for Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus read: “the beacon of solidarity”.

* Alfred Rahlfs’s Septuaginta reads: “of Beelim”, Ziegler’s LXX text reads: “of Gobelin”, Symmachus’ LXX text reads: “thy builders, through thy borders, have consummated thy beauty”, the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text reads: “are thy borders”.

* Codex Vaticanus reads: “Seneir”.

* Codex Vaticanus reads: “Hettein”, Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus read: “Hettiemi”, the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text reads: “Heteim”. This is generally understood to be a reference to the Island of Cypress where the Phoenicians had a trading colony on the southeast coast.

* Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus add: “all around”.

* The margin notes for Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus read: “also the Medes as”.

* The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text reads: “power”.

* Codex Alexandrinus adds: “and bronze”.

* i.e. Slaves.

* Codex Vaticanus reads: “Thaigrama”, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text read: “Thorgama”.

* Codex Alexandrinus, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “and mules”.

* Codex Alexandrinus reads: “Aradians”, the marginal notes to Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus read: “…Rhodians, who have a discerning eye…”

* Codex Alexandrinus reads: “Tharris, and Rammoth, and also Korchorus”, the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text reads: “Tharsis, and Raamoth, and also Kodchod”.

* The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text and the marginal notes to Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus add: “glistening” or “shinning”.

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus adds: “…Dan and Javel and Meozel…” The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text reads: “Dan and Javan and Moozel, they furnished wine to thy market” and places this phrase at the beginning of verse nineteen.

* The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text adds: “Thy”.

* Codex Vaticanus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text read: “Saba”.

* Codex Vaticanus reads: “Rama”.

* Codex Vaticanus reads: “Harra and Hanaa”, Codex Alexandrinus reads: “Harran and Hanaan and Dedan”, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus reads: “Harra and Hanaan and Dedan”, the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text reads: “Haran and Hanaa and Edan”.

* Codex Alexandrinus adds: “and purple”, and Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus further adds: “and embroidered fabrics”.

* The margin notes to Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus add: “in an acacia wooded container”, the margin notes to Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus further add: “consisting in various compartments”.

* Codex Vaticanus reads: “Thy ships are thy merchants in the abundance of thy trading population”, Codex Alexandrinus reads: “Thy ships, which in them are Carthaginians, which are thy merchants from Tarsis, in the abundance of thy trading population”. NOTE: The Septuagint considers “Tarsis” as “Carthage,” though at this time Carthage (in Tunis, North Africa) also ruled over the former areas of Tarsis in Spain.

* Codex Alexandrinus reads: “thine”.

* Codex Alexandrinus adds verse thirty-one (31) which reads: “And they shall tear out their hair because of you unto baldness, and they shall gird themselves with sackcloth, and weep over thee in bitterness of soul, and shall faithfully lament for thee bitterly”, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus reads verse thirty-one (31) as follows: “And they shall tear out their hair (They shall shave their head - margin notes to Codex Vaticanus marchalianus) because of you unto baldness, and they shall gird themselves with sackcloth, and weep over thee in bitterness of soul, and shall lament for thee bitterly and wail over thee”, the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text reads verse thirty-one (31) as follows: “They shall shave their head because of thee unto baldness, and they shall gird themselves with sackcloth, and weep over thee in bitterness of soul, and shall lament for thee bitterly”.

* Codex Alexandrinus, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “Who is like Tyre that is now silent in the midst of the sea”?

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Ezekiel (LXX)

Chapter 28 *

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 And thou, O son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, Thus saith * the Lord, Because thine heart was exalted, and thou said, “I am God, I have inhabited the habitation of God in the heart of the sea,” yet thou art a man and not God, and thou construed thine heart like the heart of God. 3 Art thou wiser than Daniel, or did not the wise instructed thee with their knowledge? 4 Have thou gained power for thyself by thine own knowledge or thine own prudence, and obtained gold and silver in thy treasures? 5 Or by thy abundant knowledge and commerce did thou multiply thy power? Was thy heart exalted by thy power?

* The margin notes to Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus add a title, which reads: “To the Ruler of Tyre”.

* Codex Alexandrinus reads: “the Lord God”, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus reads: “the Lord, THE LORD”, the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text adds: “Adonai”, this is another Hebrew name for God.

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Chapter 28 *

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 And thou, O son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, Thus saith * the Lord, Because thine heart was exalted, and thou said, “I am God, I have inhabited the habitation of God in the heart of the sea,” yet thou art a man and not God, and thou rendered thine heart like the heart of God. 3 Art thou wiser than Daniel, or did not the wise instructed thee with their knowledge? 4 Have thou gained power for thyself by thine own knowledge or thine own prudence, and obtained gold and silver in thy treasures? 5 Or by thy abundant knowledge and commerce did thou multiply thy power? Was thy heart exalted by thy power? 6 Therefore, thus saith * the Lord, Since thou have rendered thine heart like the heart of God; 7 because of this, behold, I will bring against thee foreign scourges from the nations, and they shall draw their daggers against thee, and against the beauty of thy knowledge, and they shall lay out thy beauty unto destruction. 8 And they shall bring thee down, and thou shall die by the death of the slain in the heart of the sea. 9 When thou speak, will thou indeed say, “I am God,” before those that kill thee? But thou art a man, and not God. 10 * Thou shall perish by the hands of foreigners, among the multitude of the uncircumcised, for I have spoken it, saith * the Lord. 11 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 12 O son of man, take up a lamentation over the ruler of Tyre, and say to him, Thus saith * the Lord, THE LORD, Thou art a seal in likeness *, and a crown of beauty. 13 Thou were born in the delight of the paradise of God; thou have bound on thyself every precious stone, the sard, and topaz, and emerald, and carbuncle, and sapphire, and jasper, and silver, and gold, and ligyrion, and agate, and amethyst, and chrysolite, and beryl, and onyx. And thou filled with gold thy treasuries and thy storehouses among thee. 14 From the day that thou was created thou was with the cherub, * and I placed thee on the holy mountain of God; thou was born in the midst of the stones of fire. 15 Thou were born faultless in thy days, from the day that thou were created, until * iniquitous deeds were found in thee. 16 From the abundance of thy merchandise thou have filled thy storehouses with lawlessness, and have sinned, and were wounded from the mountain of God, and the * cherub drove thee from out of the midst of the stones of fire. 17 Thy heart was exalted because of thy beauty, and thy beauty corrupted thy knowledge. Because of the multitude of thy sins, I threw thee to the ground; I gave thee before kings to be made an example.18 Because of the multitude of thy sins and the iniquities of thy trade, I desecrated thy temples; and I will bring fire from out of thy midst, this shall consume thee; and I will render thee to be ashes upon thy land before all who see thee. 19 And all that know thee among the nations shall be upset over thee; thou became destruction, and thou shall exist no more forever. 20 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 21 O son of man, set thy face against Sidon, and prophesy against her, 22 and say, Thus saith * the Lord; Behold, I am against thee, O Sidon, and I will be glorified in thee, and thou shall know that I am the Lord, when I execute judgments against thee, and I will be sanctified in thee. 23 Blood and death shall be in thy streets, and men wounded with daggers shall fall in thee and all around thee; and they shall know that I am the Lord. 24 And there shall no longer be in the house of Israel a thorn of bitterness and a pricking briar of pain proceeding from those who are all around them, who dishonored them; and they shall know that I am * the Lord. 25 Thus saith * the Lord, THE LORD, I will also gather Israel from the nations, among whom they have been scattered, and I will be hallowed among them before the peoples and nations; 26 and they shall dwell upon their land, which I gave to my servant Jacob. Yea, they shall live upon their land, which I gave to My servant Jacob. And they shall live upon it in hope, and they shall build houses, and plant vineyards, and live in hope, when I shall execute judgment on all who have dishonored them, even among those that are all around them; and they shall know that I am the Lord, their God, and the God of their fathers.

* The margin notes to Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus add a title, which reads: “To the Ruler of Tyre”.

* Codex Alexandrinus reads: “the Lord God”, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus reads: “the Lord, THE LORD”, the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text adds: “Adonai”, this is another Hebrew name for God.

* Codex Alexandrinus reads: “the Lord, THE LORD God”, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus reads: “the Lord, THE LORD”, the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text adds: “Adonai”, this is another Hebrew name for God.

* The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text adds: “…in the hands of those who wound thee”.

* Codex Alexandrinus, and Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus reads: “Thou shall perish by a fatal wound…”

* Codex Alexandrinus, and Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus add: “Adonai”, this is another Hebrew name for God.

* The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text adds: “Adonai”, this is another Hebrew name for God.

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus, Aquila, Symmachus and Theodotion’s LXX texts, and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “full of wisdom”.

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus, and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “thou were anointed (Complutesian Polyglot – by God) and encamped in God’s tabernacle”.

* Codex Alexandrinus adds: “the day”.

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus, and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “overshadowing”. This has a more direct meaning of “guarding” or “protecting”, but in the third person perfect and can be translated as “guardian” as in “the guardian cherub”.

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus, and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “Adonai”, this is another Hebrew name for God.

* Codex Alexandrinus reads: “the Lord their God”, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus, and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “Adonai”, this is another Hebrew name for God.

* Codex Alexandrinus reads: “the Lord, THE LORD God”, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus, and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “Adonai”, this is another Hebrew name for God.

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Ezekiel

Chapter 29

In the * twelfth year, in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 O son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh, King of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against the whole of Egypt. 3 * And say, Thus saith * the Lord, Behold, I am against * Pharaoh, * the great dragon who lies securely in the midst of his rivers, who says, The rivers are mine, and I made them. 4 And I will place * snares into thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy river to stick to thy fins, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy river. 5 And I will quickly cast thee down and all the fish of thy river; thou shall fall on the surface of the plain, and shall by no means be gathered, and shall not be interred. I have given thee for food to the wild beasts of the earth and to the birds of the sky. 6 And all those who live in Egypt shall know that I am the Lord, because thou became a rod of reed to the house of Israel. 7 When they took hold of thee with their hand, thou were crushed, and when every hand prevailed over them, and when they rested upon thee, thou were shattered, and ye crushed all of their loins. 8 Therefore, thus saith * the Lord, Behold, I will bring the broadsword upon thee, and will destroy from thee man and beast; 9 and the land of Egypt shall be ruined and a desert; and they shall know that I am the Lord, because thou said, The rivers are mine, and I made them. 10 Therefore, behold, I am against thee, and against all thy rivers, and I will give up the land of Egypt unto desolation, and the broadsword, and destruction, from Magdol and Syene, even unto the borders of the Ethiopians. 11 No foot of man shall pass through her, and no foot of beast shall pass through her, and it shall not be inhabited for forty years. 12 And I will give her land for destruction in the midst of a desolate land, and her cities shall be in the midst of cities that are desolate * for forty years, and I will disperse Egypt among the nations, and winnow them among the countries. 13 Thus saith * the Lord, After forty years, I will gather the Egyptians from the nations among whom they have been scattered, 14 and I will return the captivity of the Egyptians, and will settle them in the land of Phathuores, in the land whence they were taken; and it shall be a lowly kingdom 15 compared to all other kingdoms; and it will never again be exalted over the nations; and I will make them very few in number, that they may not be numerous among the nations. 16 And they shall no more be to the house of Israel as a hope that remembers lawlessness, when they follow after * them, and they shall know that I am * the Lord.
17 And it came to pass in the twenty-seventh year, on the * first day of the first month; the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 18 O son of man, Nabouchodonosor, the King of Babylon, reduced his army to slavery for a great service against Tyre. Every head was bald, and every shoulder made hairless; and there was no wage to him nor to his army serving against Tyre, nor for the service wherewith they served against her.
19 Thus saith * the Lord, THE LORD, Behold, I will give to Nabouchodonosor, King of Babylon, the land of Egypt, and he shall take the plunder thereof, and seize the spoils thereof; and it shall be the wage for his army. 20 In return for his service wherewith he served against Tyre, I have given him the land of Egypt *; thus saith * the Lord God, 21 In that day shall a horn spring forth for all the house of Israel, and I will give to thee an open mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

* Codex Alexandrinus, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus, Ziegler’s LXX text, and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text read: “tenth”.

* Codex Vaticanus, Aquila’s, Symmachus’ and Theodotion’s LXX texts, and Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus add: “Speak”.

* Codex Alexandrinus reads: “the Lord God”, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus reads: “the Lord, THE LORD”, and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text adds: “Adonai”, this is another Hebrew name for God.

* Codex Alexandrinus adds: “thee”.

* Codex Vaticanus, Aquila’s, Symmachus’ and Theodotion’s LXX texts, and Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus add: “King of Egypt”.

* The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text reads: “a bridle”.

* Codex Alexandrinus reads: “the Lord God”, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus reads: “the Lord, THE LORD”, and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text adds: “Adonai”, this is another Hebrew name for God.

* Codex Alexandrinus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “and annihilated”.

* Codex Alexandrinus, and Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus read: “the Lord, THE LORD”, and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text adds: “Adonai”, this is another Hebrew name for God.

* Codex Alexandrinus reads: “their heart”.

* Codex Alexandrinus reads: “the Lord God”, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “Adonai”, this is another Hebrew name for God.

* The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text reads: “ninth”.

* Codex Alexandrinus, and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “Adonai”, this is another Hebrew name for God.

* Codex Alexandrinus, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus, and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “Because he performed this service for Me”.

* Codex Alexandrinus, and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “Adonai”, this is another Hebrew name for God.

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Ezekiel (LXX)

Chapter 30

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 O son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith * the Lord, Oh, oh worth the day! 3 * For the day of the Lord is near; a day of storm clouds, it shall be the end of the nations. 4 And a dagger shall come against the Egyptians, and there shall be tumult in * Ethiopia, and in Egypt men who have been wounded shall fall, * and her foundations shall collapse. 5 Persians, and Cretans, and Lydians, and Libyans, and the entire mixed multitude, and of the sons of My covenant, shall fall by the dagger therein. 6 * And the supports of Egypt shall fall; and the hubris of her strength shall come down from Magdol to Syene; they shall fall by the dagger in it, saith * the Lord. 7 And it shall be made desolate in the midst of desolate countries, and * their cities shall be desolate in the midst of desolate cities. 8 And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I render fire upon Egypt, and when all those who help her are crushed. 9 In that day, shall messengers go forth * rushing to destroy * Ethiopia, and there shall be tumult among them in the day of Egypt, for behold, it has come. 10 Thus saith * the Lord, THE LORD, I will also destroy the multitude of the Egyptians by the hand of Nabouchodonosor, the King of Babylon, 11 he and his people *; they are plagues sent forth from the nations to * destroy the land, and they all shall unsheathe their daggers against Egypt, and the land shall be filled with the mortally wounded. 12 And I will render their rivers desolate, * and * destroy the land and the fullness of it by the hands of foreigners; I, the Lord, have spoken it. 13 For thus saith * the Lord, THE LORD, I will destroy * the nobles from Memphis, * and the rulers from out of the land of Egypt; and they shall be no more. * 14 And I will destroy the land of Phathuores, and send fire upon Tanis, and execute judgment against Diospolis. 15 And I will pour out My wrath upon * Sais, the strength of Egypt, and will destroy the multitude of Memphis. 16 And I will send fire upon Egypt, and * Syene shall be troubled with agony; and there shall be a breach in Diospolis, and waters shall be poured through *. 17 Young men of Heliopolis and Boubastum shall fall by the dagger, and the women shall go into captivity. 18 And the day shall be darkened in Taphnas, when I shatter there the scepters of Egypt. And the hubris of her strength shall perish there, and a dark cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall be led away as captives. 19 And I will execute judgment on Egypt, and they shall know that I am the Lord. 20 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month; the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 21 O son of man, I have crushed the arms of Pharaoh, King of Egypt, and, behold, he has not been bound up to be given healing, to have dressing be given upon it, or to be given strength to take hold of daggers. 22 Therefore, thus saith * the Lord, THE LORD, Behold, I am against Pharaoh, King of Egypt, and I will crush his strong and outstretched arms, and will throw down his dagger from out of his hand. 23 And I will disperse Egypt into the nations, and will winnow them into the countries. 24 And I will strengthen the arms of the King of Babylon, and give My broadsword into his hand; and he shall bring it upon Egypt, and shall take her plunder and seize her spoils. 25 And I will strengthen the arms of the King of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall, and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I give My broadsword into the hands of the King of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out against the land of Egypt. 26 And I will disperse Egypt into the nations, and winnow them into the countries; and they all shall know that I am the Lord.

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus, and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “Adonai”, this is another Hebrew name for God.

* Codex Vaticanus reads: “For His day is near, the day of the Lord, it shall be the end of the nations”, Codex Alexandrinus reads: “For His day is near, the day of the Lord, a day of storm clouds, it shall be a time for the end of the nations”, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text read: “For the day of the Lord is near, and the day of the Lord approaches, it shall be a day of storm clouds and a time for the end of the nations”.

* Codex Vaticanus, and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “…the Land of…”

* Codex Alexandrinus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “and they shall carry away her wealth”.

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus, and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “Thus saith Adonai the Lord”.

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus, and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “Adonai”, this is another Hebrew name for God.

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus, and Theodotion’s LXX text add: “from before My face”.

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus, and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “the confidence of”.

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus, and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text read: “Adonai the Lord”, “Adonai” is another Hebrew name for God.

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus, Aquila’s and Theodotion’s LXX texts add: “with him”.

* Codex Alexandrinus reads: “obliterate”.

* Codex Alexandrinus, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus, Aquila’s and Theodotion’s LXX texts, and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “and I will give the land into the hand of evildoers”.

* The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text reads: “obliterate”.

* Codex Alexandrinus reads: “Adonai the Lord”, “Adonai” is another Hebrew name for God. The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text reads: “the Lord God”.

* Codex Alexandrinus, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus, Theodotion’s LXX text, and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “the abominations and put an end to…”

* Codex Vaticanus reads: “and the rulers from Memphis, from out of the land of Egypt; and they shall be no more”, Codex Alexandrinus reads: “and the rulers from Tanis, from out of the land of Egypt; and they shall be no more”.

* Codex Alexandrinus, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus, Theodotion’s LXX texts, and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “And I will impart fear in the land of Egypt”.

* Codex Alexandrinus reads: “Tanis”.

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text read: “Sais”.

* The marginal notes to Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus add: “and in Memphis enemy forces will besiege it every day”.

* The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text adds: “Adonai”, this is another Hebrew name for God.

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Ezekiel (LXX)

Chapter 31

And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 O son of man, say to Pharaoh, King of Egypt, and to his multitude; To whom have thou compared thyself in thy haughtiness? 3 Behold, Assyria is a cypress in Lebanon, and is beautiful in his branches, and high in stature; his top came to be into the midst of the clouds. 4 The water nourished him, the depth made him grow tall; she led her rivers around his plants, and she sent forth her systems of water to all the trees of the field. 5 Therefore, his stature exalted above all the trees of the field, and his branches were multiplied * from an abundant amount of water *. 6 All the birds of the sky made their nests in his limbs, and under his branches all the wild beasts of the field gave birth; the whole multitude of nations lived under his shadow. 7 And he became beautiful in his height by reason of the multitude of his branches, because his roots were amidst much water. 8 And such cypresses do not exist in the paradise of God, and there were no pines like his shoots, and there were no firs like his branches; no tree in the paradise of God was like him in his beauty, 9 because of the multitude of his branches *. And the trees of God’s paradise of delight were jealous of him.

* Codex Alexandrinus, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus, Theodotion’s LXX texts, and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “and his limbs were exalted”. Codex Alexandrinus reads: “over” in place of “from”.

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus adds: “and in the stretching forth of his branches”.

* The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text adds: “I made him beautiful”.

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Ezekiel (LXX)

Chapter 31

10 Therefore, thus saith * the Lord, Because thou became great in stature, and thou gave thy top into the midst of the clouds, and * I beheld him when he was exalted, 11 and I gave him into the hands of the ruler of the nations, and he caused his destruction. 12 And deadly foreigners from the nations have utterly destroyed him, and have thrown him down upon the mountains; his branches fell in all the ravines, and his trunks were crushed in every field of the land; and all the peoples of the nations came down from their shelter, and laid him low. 13 All the birds of the sky have rested on his ruinous collapse, and all the wild beasts of the field came to be upon his trunks, 14 in order that none of the trees by the water should be exalted in their size, and they did not give their top into the midst of the clouds, and all who drank water did not approach them in their height, all were consigned to death, into the depth of the earth, in the midst of the sons of men, with those who go down into the pit.

* Codex Alexandrinus, and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “Adonai”, this is another Hebrew name for God. Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus reads: “the Lord, THE LORD”.

* The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text reads: “his heart was exalted unto his height”.

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Ezekiel (LXX)

Chapter 31

15 Thus saith * the Lord, THE LORD, In the day wherein he went down to Hades, the abyss mourned for him, and I halted her rivers, and restrained the abundance of water, and Lebanon grew dark over him; all the trees of the field fainted because of him. 16 From the sound of his downfall the nations quaked, when I brought him down into Hades with those who were going down into the pit. And all the trees of Delight comforted him on earth, even * the choice ones of Lebanon, all that drink water. 17 For they went down to Hades with him among those wounded by the dagger, and his seed, even those who live under his shelter, perished in the midst of their life. 18 To whom art thou compared *? Descend, and be thou brought down with the trees of paradise into the depth of the earth; thou shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with those who are wounded by the dagger. Thus shall Pharaoh be, and the multitude of his strength, saith * the Lord, THE LORD.

* Codex Alexandrinus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text read: “Adonai the Lord”. “Adonai” is another Hebrew name for God. Ziegler’s LXX text omits “THE LORD”.

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus, and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “…the chosen ones and…”

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus adds: “…in strength, in glory, and in greatness among the trees of paradise?” The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text adds: “…in power, and in glory, and in greatness among the trees of paradise?”

* The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text reads: “Adonai the Lord”. “Adonai” is another Hebrew name for God.

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Ezekiel (LXX)

Chapter 32

And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 O son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh, King of Egypt, and say to him, Thou art become like a lion of the nations, and like a dragon that is in the sea, and thou raised a horn against thy rivers, and disturbed the water with thy feet, and trampled down thy rivers. 3 Thus saith * the Lord, And I will cloak thee with nets * of many peoples, and will bring thee up with My hook. 4 And I will stretch thee out upon the ground; the fields shall be covered * with thee, and I will cause all the birds of the sky to settle upon thee, and I will satisfy all the wild beasts of the earth. 5 And I will give thy flesh upon the mountains, and will saturate * it with thy blood. 6 And the land shall be watered with thy dung, from thy multitude upon the mountains; I will fill the valleys with thee. 7 And I will veil the heavens after thou art extinguished, * and will darken his stars; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not show her light. 8 All that shine light in the heavens shall be darkened over thee, and I will give darkness upon thy land, saith * the Lord, THE LORD.

* Codex Alexandrinus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “Adonai”, this is another Hebrew name for God, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus reads: “the Lord, THE LORD”.

* Codex Alexandrinus, Aquila’s and Theodotion’s LXX texts add: “in a gathering”, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus adds: “and in a gathering”.

* The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text omits: “with thee”.

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus adds: “the valleys (of the entire land Codex Alexandrinus).

* Codex Alexandrinus reads: “and will darken the stars of the sky”.

* Codex Alexandrinus reads: “the Lord God”.

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Ezekiel (LXX)

Chapter 32

And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 O son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh, King of Egypt, and say to him, Thou art become like a lion of the nations, and like a dragon that is in the sea, and thou raised a horn against thy rivers, and disturbed the water with thy feet, and trampled down thy rivers. 3 Thus saith * the Lord, And I will cloak thee with nets * of many peoples, and will bring thee up with My hook. 4 And I will stretch thee out upon the ground; the fields shall be covered * with thee, and I will cause all the birds of the sky to settle upon thee, and I will satisfy all the wild beasts of the earth. 5 And I will give thy flesh upon the mountains, and will saturate * it with thy blood. 6 And the land shall be watered with thy dung, from thy multitude upon the mountains; I will fill the valleys with thee. 7 And I will veil the heavens after thou art extinguished, * and will darken his stars; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not show her light. 8 All that shine light in the heavens shall be darkened over thee, and I will give darkness upon thy land, saith * the Lord, THE LORD. 9 And I will provoke to anger the heart of many peoples, when I shall lead thee captive into the nations, into a land that thou did not know. 10 And many nations shall mourn over thee, and their kings shall be amazed with amazement, when My broadsword flies in their faces, as they wait for their own downfall from the day of thy downfall. 11 For thus saith * the Lord, THE LORD, The broadsword of the King of Babylon shall come upon thee, 12 with the daggers of giants; even I will cast down thy strength; they are the most destructive from all the nations, and they shall destroy the hubris of Egypt, and all her strength shall be crushed. 13 And I will destroy all her cattle from beside the abundant water; and the foot of man shall not trouble it any longer, and the track of cattle shall no longer trample it. 14 Then shall their waters then be at rest, and their rivers shall flow like oil, saith * the Lord, 15 when I shall give up Egypt to destruction, and the land shall be made desolate with the fullness thereof; when I shall scatter all the inhabitants in it, and then they shall know that I am the Lord. 16 There is a lamentation, and thou bewail him; and the daughters of the nations shall bewail him, even over Egypt, and over all her strength they shall lament her, saith the Lord, * THE LORD. 17 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the month; the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 18 O son of man, lament over the * strength of Egypt, and the nations shall bring down her daughters dead into the depth of the earth, to those who go down into the pit. * 20 In the midst of those who are wounded with daggers, they shall fall down with him, and all his strength shall perish. 21 And the giants, in the depth of the pit, shall say to thee, To whom art thou superior? Yea, go down, and lie with the uncircumcised, in the midst of those that are wounded with the dagger. 22 There is Assyria and all his gathering; all his wounded have been laid there, and their burial is in the depth of the pit, and his gathering came to be all around his grave, all the wounded who fell by the dagger, 23 who gave their fear upon the land of the living. 24 There is Ailam, and all his force around his grave, all the wounded who fell by the dagger, and the uncircumcised who go down into the depth of the earth, who imparted their fear upon the land of the living, and they received their torment with those who go down into the pit, 25 in the midst of the wounded. 26 There were given Mosoch, and Thobel, and all * their strength all around his grave, all his wounded men, all the uncircumcised, wounded by the dagger, who have given their fear upon the land of the living. 27 And they have perished with the giants who fell long ago, who descended into Hades with their weapons of war, and they placed their daggers under their heads, but their lawless deeds came to rest upon their bones, because they terrified giants in the land of the living. 28 And thou shall * perish in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who have been wounded by the dagger. 29 * There are laid the rulers of Assyria, who yielded their strength to the wound inflicted by the dagger; they perish with the wounded, with those who go down into the pit. 30 The rulers of the north are there, * even all the commanders of Assyria, who go down wounded to Hades, they lie uncircumcised among the wounded with the dagger together with their fear and their strength, and they bore their torment with those who go down into the pit. 31 King Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all their strength, saith * the Lord, THE LORD. 32 For I have given his fear upon the land of the living, yet he shall perish in the midst of the uncircumcised with those who are wounded with the dagger, even Pharaoh, and his entire multitude with him, saith * the Lord, THE LORD.

* Codex Alexandrinus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “Adonai”, this is another Hebrew name for God, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus reads: “the Lord, THE LORD”.

* Codex Alexandrinus, Aquila’s and Theodotion’s LXX texts add: “in a gathering”, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus adds: “and in a gathering”.

* The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text omits: “with thee”.

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus adds: “the valleys (of the entire land Codex Alexandrinus).

* Codex Alexandrinus reads: “and will darken the stars of the sky”.

* Codex Alexandrinus reads: “the Lord God”.

* Codex Vaticanus reads: “the Lord”, Codex Alexandrinus reads: “Adonai the Lord”. “Adonai” is another Hebrew name for God.

* Ziegler’s LXX text omits “THE LORD”.

* Codex Alexandrinus reads: “land”, the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text reads: “multitude” or “horde”.

* The LXX places verse 19 after verse 21. However, Codex Alexandrinus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text read verse 19 slightly different as: “From pleasant waters go down and lie with the uncircumcised”.

* The Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text reads: “his”.

* Codex Alexandrinus, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “be crushed and…”

* Codex Alexandrinus, Theodotion’s LXX text, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text read the beginning of verse 29 as follows: “Edom and her kings, and all the rulers of Assyria…” The margin notes to Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus add further to the beginning of verse 29 as follows: “there was given Edom…”

* Codex Alexandrinus, Theodotion’s LXX text, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “all of them”.

* Codex Alexandrinus reads: “the Lord God”.

* Codex Alexandrinus reads: “the Lord God”.

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Ezekiel (LXX)

Chapter 33

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 O son of man, speak to the sons of thy people, and thou shall say to them, The land, upon which I shall bring the broadsword, and the people of the land should take one man from out of them, and give him for themselves as a watchman. 3 And he shall see the broadsword coming upon the land, and he shall blow the * trumpet, and shall signal an alarm to the people; 4 and he who hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take heed, then the broadsword shall come upon him, and overtake him, and his blood shall be upon his own head. 5 Because he heard the sound of the trumpet, and took no heed, his blood shall be upon him, but the other, because he took heed, delivered his soul. 6 But if the watchman should see the broadsword coming, and does not signal with the trumpet, and the people do not take heed and the broadsword comes, and takes a soul from among them, that soul was taken because of its own lawlessness; but the blood thereof will I seek from the watchman’s hand. 7 And thou, O son of man, I have given thee as a watchman to the house of Israel, whenever thou shall hear a word from out of My mouth *.

* This is in reference to a “Shofar.” This is a ram’s horn rather than a brass instrument.

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and Theodotion’s LXX text add: “thou must warn them on My behalf”, the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text adds: “and thou must proclaim My warning to them on My behalf”.

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Ezekiel (LXX)

Chapter 33

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 O son of man, speak to the sons of thy people, and thou shall say to them, The land, upon which I shall bring the broadsword, and the people of the land should take one man from out of them, and give him for themselves as a watchman. 3 And he shall see the broadsword coming upon the land, and he shall blow the * trumpet, and shall signal an alarm to the people; 4 and he who hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take heed, then the broadsword shall come upon him, and overtake him, and his blood shall be upon his own head. 5 Because he heard the sound of the trumpet, and took no heed, his blood shall be upon him, but the other, because he took heed, delivered his soul. 6 But if the watchman should see the broadsword coming, and does not signal with the trumpet, and the people do not take heed and the broadsword comes, and takes a soul from among them, that soul was taken because of its own lawlessness; but the blood thereof will I seek from the watchman’s hand. 7 And thou, O son of man, I have given thee as a watchman to the house of Israel, whenever thou shall hear a word from out of My mouth *. 8 When I say to the sinner, Thou shall be put to death by death, and should thou not speak to warn the ungodly from his way, the lawless one himself shall die by his lawlessness; but his blood I will require from thine hand. 9 But thou, if ye forewarn the ungodly of his way, to turn from it, and he does not turn from his way, he shall die by his lawlessness, but thou have delivered thine own soul. 10 And thou, O son of man, say to the house of Israel, Thus have ye spoken, saying, Our errors, and our lawless deeds are with us, and we waste away in them, and how then will we live? 11 Say to them, As I live, saith * the Lord, I do not desire the death of the * ungodly, but for the ungodly to turn from his way and for him to live. Turn from your * way by turning back, and why are ye die, O house of Israel?
12 Say to the sons of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him, in the day wherein he errs, and the lawlessness of the ungodly shall not harm him, in the day wherein he turns from his lawlessness, and the righteous shall not be able to be saved *. 13 When I say to the righteous, * He then trusts in his righteousness, and should he commit lawlessness, none of his righteousnesses shall be remembered; in his unrighteousness, which he has committed, in it shall he die. 14 And when I say to the ungodly, Thou shall be put to death by death, and he turns away from his sin, and does what is just and righteous, 15 and return a pledge, and repay that which he has robbed, and walk in the ordinances of life, so as not to do what is wrong; he shall thus live a righteous life, and he shall not die. 16 None of his sins, which he has committed, shall be remembered, because he has done what is just and righteous; in them shall he live.


* This is in reference to a “Shofar.” This is a ram’s horn rather than a brass instrument.

* Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and Theodotion’s LXX text add: “thou must warn them on My behalf”, the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text adds: “and thou must proclaim My warning to them on My behalf”.

* Codex Alexandrinus, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “Adonai”, this is another Hebrew name for God.

* Codex Alexandrinus reads: “sinner”.

* Codex Alexandrinus, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “evil”.

* Codex Alexandrinus, Theodotion’s LXX text, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “in the day of his sin”.

* Codex Alexandrinus, Codex Vaticanus Marchalianus and the Complutesian Polyglot’s LXX text add: “that he will live a righteous life”.