Ezekiel 33:2

33:2 “Son of man, speak to your people, 1  and say to them, ‘Suppose I bring a sword against the land, and the people of the land take one man from their borders and make him their watchman.

Ezekiel 47:13

Boundaries for the Land

47:13 This is what the sovereign Lord says: “Here 2  are the borders 3  you will observe as you allot the land to the twelve tribes of Israel. (Joseph will have two portions.) 4 

1 tn Heb “sons of your people.”

2 tc This translation follows the reading זֶה (zeh) instead of גֵּה (geh), a nonexistent word, as supported by the LXX.

3 tn Or “territory”; see D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:715.

4 tc The grammar is awkward, though the presence of these words is supported by the versions. L. C. Allen (Ezekiel [WBC], 2:274) suggests that it is an explanatory gloss.

sn One portion for Ephraim, the other for Manasseh (Gen 48:17-20).