Ezekiel 22:9

22:9 Slanderous men shed blood within you. 1  Those who live within you eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains; 2  they commit obscene acts among you. 3 

Ezekiel 22:11

22:11 One 4  commits an abominable act with his neighbor’s wife; another obscenely defiles his daughter-in-law; another violates 5  his sister – his father’s daughter 6  – within you.

1 tn Heb “men of slander are in you in order to shed blood.”

2 tn Heb “and on the mountains they eat within you.” The mountains mentioned here were the site of pagan sacrifices. See 18:6.

3 sn This statement introduces vv. 10-11 and refers in general terms to the sexual sins described there. For the legal background of vv. 10-11, see Lev 18:7-20; 20:10-21; Deut 22:22-23, 30; 27:22.

4 tn Heb “a man.”

5 tn The verb is the same one used in verse 10b and suggests forcible sexual violation of the woman.

6 sn Sexual relations with one’s half-sister may be primarily in view here. See Lev 18:9; 20:17.