1tn Heb “to eat bread.”

2tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.

3tn Heb “set your heart” (so also in the latter part of the verse).

4tn Heb “Set your mind, look with your eyes, and with your ears hear.”

5tc The Syriac, Vulgate, and Targum read the plural. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:618.

6tc The LXX reads “house of rebellion.”

7tn Heb “to desecrate.”

8tc The Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions read “you.” The Masoretic text reads “they.”

9tc 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.

tn This word is not in the Hebrew text but is supplied from the context.

10sn Tobiah, an Ammonite (Neh 13:8), was dismissed from the temple.

11tn Heb “will bear.”

12tn Heb “a stumbling block of iniquity.” This is a unique phrase of the prophet Ezekiel (cf. also Ezek 7:19; 14:3, 4, 7; 18:30).

13tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”

14tn Heb “will bear.”

15sn Zadok was a descendant of Aaron through Eleazar (1 Chr 6:50-53), who served as a priest during David’s reign (2 Sam 8:17).

16sn For a similar concept of the transmitting of holiness, see Exod 19:12-14; Lev 10:1-2; 2 Sam 6:7. Similar laws concerning the priest are found in Lev 10 and 21.

17sn The shaving of the head was associated with mourning (Ezek 7:18).

18sn Letting the hair grow was associated with the taking of a vow (Num 6:5; Acts 21:23-26).

19tn Heb “from the offspring of the house of Israel.”

20sn This task was a fundamental role of the priest (Lev 10:10).

21sn For a historical illustration of the priest carrying out this function, see 2 Chr 19:9-11.

22tn Heb “sanctify, set apart.”

23sn This law was part of the legal code for priests (Lev 21:1-3).

24tn Heb “he”; the referent (the priest) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

25tc One medieval Hebrew ms, the LXX, and the Syriac along with Lev 15:13, 28 read the verb as singular.

26sn See Num 18:20; Deut 10:9; 18:2; Josh 13:33; 18:7.

27tn Heb has in addition “from your contributions,” a repetition unnecessary in English.

28tn The words “by a wild animal” are not in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied in the translation as a clarification of the circumstances.

sn For this law, see Lev 7:24; 17:15.