Ezekiel 33:2
Context33:2 “Son of man, speak to your people, 1 and say to them, ‘Suppose I bring a sword against the land, and the people of the land take one man from their borders and make him their watchman.
Ezekiel 47:13
ContextBoundaries for the Land
47:13 This is what the sovereign Lord says: “Here 2 are the borders 3 you will observe as you allot the land to the twelve tribes of Israel. (Joseph will have two portions.) 4
1 tn Heb “sons of your people.”
2 tc This translation follows the reading זֶה (zeh) instead of גֵּה (geh), a nonexistent word, as supported by the LXX.
3 tn Or “territory”; see D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:715.
4 tc The grammar is awkward, though the presence of these words is supported by the versions. L. C. Allen (Ezekiel [WBC], 2:274) suggests that it is an explanatory gloss.
sn One portion for Ephraim, the other for Manasseh (Gen 48:17-20).