Ezekiel 36:26
36:26 I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will remove the heart of stone 1 from your body and give you a heart of flesh. 2
Ezekiel 39:18
39:18 You will eat the flesh of warriors 3 and drink the blood of the princes of the earth – the rams, lambs, goats, and bulls, all of them fattened animals of Bashan.
Ezekiel 44:7
44:7 When you bring foreigners, those uncircumcised in heart and in flesh, into my sanctuary, you desecrate 4 it – even my house – when you offer my food, the fat and the blood. You 5 have broken my covenant by all your abominable practices.
Ezekiel 44:9
44:9 This is what the sovereign Lord says: No foreigner, who is uncircumcised in heart and flesh among all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, will enter into my sanctuary. 6
1 sn That is, a heart which symbolizes a will that is stubborn and unresponsive (see 1 Sam 25:37). In Rabbinic literature a “stone” was associated with an evil inclination (b. Sukkah 52a).
2 sn That is, a heart which symbolizes a will that is responsive and obedient to God.
3 sn See Rev 19:17-18.
4 tn Heb “to desecrate.”
5 tc The Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions read “you.” The Masoretic text reads “they.”
6 sn Tobiah, an Ammonite (Neh 13:8), was dismissed from the temple.