33:12 “And you, son of man, say to your people, 5 ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him if he rebels. 6 As for the wicked, his wickedness will not make him stumble if he turns from it. 7 The righteous will not be able to live by his righteousness 8 if he sins.’ 9
46:11 “‘At the festivals and at the appointed feasts the grain offering will be an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as one is able, 10 and a gallon 11 of olive oil with each ephah of grain. 12
1 tn The Hebrew term can refer to menstrual impurity. The term also occurs at the end of v. 20.
2 sn Compare Zeph 1:18.
3 tn Heb “it.” Apparently the subject is the silver and gold mentioned earlier (see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:102).
4 tn The “stumbling block of their iniquity” is a unique phrase of the prophet Ezekiel (Ezek 14:3, 4, 7; 18:30; 44:12).
5 tn Heb “the sons of your people.”
6 tn Heb “in the day of his rebellion.” The statement envisions a godly person rejecting what is good and becoming sinful. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:247-48.
7 tn Heb “and the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stumble in it in the day of his turning from his wickedness.”
8 tn Heb “by it.”
9 tn Heb “in the day of his sin.”
10 tn Or “as much as he wishes.” Heb “a gift of his hand.”
11 tn Heb “a hin of oil.” A hin was about 1/16 of a bath. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:266, and O. R. Sellers, “Weights,” IDB 4:835 g.
12 tn Heb “ephah.” The words “of grain” are supplied in the translation as a clarification.