Discovery BoxEzekiel 2:10--3:1 
Context2:10 He unrolled it before me, and it had writing on the front 1 and back; 2 written on it were laments, mourning, and woe.
3:1 He said to me, “Son of man, eat what you see in front of you 3 – eat this scroll – and then go and speak to the house of Israel.”
Ezekiel 4:1
Context4:1 “And you, son of man, take a brick 4 and set it in front of you. Inscribe 5 a city on it – Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 4:12
Context4:12 And you must eat the food like you would a barley cake. You must bake it in front of them over a fire made with dried human excrement.” 6
Ezekiel 6:4-5
Context6:4 Your altars will be ruined and your incense altars will be broken. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols. 7 6:5 I will place the corpses of the people of Israel in front of their idols, 8 and I will scatter your bones around your altars.
Ezekiel 23:41
Context23:41 You sat on a magnificent couch, with a table arranged in front of it where you placed my incense and my olive oil.
Ezekiel 40:12
Context40:12 There was a barrier in front of the alcoves, 1¾ feet 9 on either side; the alcoves were 10½ feet 10 on either side.
Ezekiel 40:26
Context40:26 There were seven steps going up to it; its porches were in front of them. It had decorative palm trees on its jambs, one on either side.
Ezekiel 40:47
Context40:47 He measured the court as a square 175 feet long and 175 feet wide; 11 the altar was in front of the temple.
Ezekiel 42:4
Context42:4 In front of the chambers was a walkway on the inner side, 17½ feet 12 wide at a distance of 1¾ feet, 13 and their entrances were on the north.
1 tn Heb “on the face.”
2 sn Written on the front and back. While it was common for papyrus scrolls to have writing on both sides the same was not true for leather scrolls.
3 tn Heb “eat what you find.”
4 sn Ancient Near Eastern bricks were 10 to 24 inches long and 6 to 13 1/2 inches wide.
5 tn Or perhaps “draw.”
6 sn Human waste was to remain outside the camp of the Israelites according to Deut 23:15.
7 tn Thirty-nine of the forty-eight biblical occurrences of this Hebrew word are found in the book of Ezekiel.
sn This verse is probably based on Lev 26:30 in which God forecasts that he will destroy their high places, cut off their incense altars, and set their corpses by the corpses of their idols.
8 tc This first sentence, which explains the meaning of the last sentence of the previous verse, does not appear in the LXX and may be an instance of a marginal explanatory note making its way into the text.
9 tn Heb “one cubit” (i.e., 52.5 cm).
10 tn Heb “six cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).
11 tn Heb “one hundred cubits long and one hundred cubits wide, a square” (i.e., 52.5 meters by 52.5 meters).
12 tn Heb “ten cubits” (i.e., 5.25 meters).
13 tc Heb “one cubit” (i.e., 52.5 cm). The LXX and the Syriac read “one hundred cubits” (= 175 feet).
