Discovery BoxEzekiel 24:17 
Context24:17 Groan in silence for the dead, 1 but do not perform mourning rites. 2 Bind on your turban 3 and put your sandals on your feet. Do not cover your lip 4 and do not eat food brought by others.” 5
Ezekiel 39:4
Context39:4 You will fall dead on the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the people who are with you. I give you as food to every kind of bird and every wild beast.
Ezekiel 47:8
Context47:8 He said to me, “These waters go out toward the eastern region and flow down into the Arabah; when they enter the Dead Sea, 6 where the sea is stagnant, 7 the waters become fresh. 8
1 tn Or “Groan silently. As to the dead….” Cf. M. Greenberg’s suggestion that דֹּם מֵתִים (dom metim) be taken together and דֹּם be derived from ָדּמַם (damam, “to moan, murmur”). See M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:508.
2 tn Heb “(For) the dead mourning you shall not conduct.” In the Hebrew text the word translated “dead” is plural, indicating that mourning rites are in view. Such rites would involve outward demonstrations of one’s sorrow, including wailing and weeping.
3 sn The turban would normally be removed for mourning (Josh 7:6; 1 Sam 4:12).
4 sn Mourning rites included covering the lower part of the face. See Lev 13:45.
5 tn Heb “the bread of men.” The translation follows the suggestion accepted by M. Greenberg (Ezekiel [AB], 2:509) that this refers to a meal brought by comforters to the one mourning. Some repoint the consonantal text to read “the bread of despair” (see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 2:56), while others, with support from the Targum and Vulgate, emend the consonantal text to read “the bread of mourners” (see D. I. Block, Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:784).
6 tn Heb “the sea,” referring to the Dead Sea. This has been specified in the translation for clarity.
7 tn Heb “to the sea, those which are brought out.” The reading makes no sense. The text is best emended to read “filthy” (i.e., stagnant). See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:273.
8 tn Heb “the waters become healed.”
