Discovery BoxEzekiel 33:31 
Context33:31 They come to you in crowds, 1 and they sit in front of you as 2 my people. They hear your words, but do not obey 3 them. For they talk lustfully, 4 and their heart is set on 5 their own advantage. 6
Ezekiel 44:3
Context44:3 Only the prince may sit in it to eat a sacrificial meal 7 before the Lord; he will enter by way of the porch of the gate and will go out by the same way.”
1 tn Heb “as people come.” Apparently this is an idiom indicating that they come in crowds. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:264.
2 tn The word “as” is supplied in the translation.
3 tn Heb “do.”
4 tn Heb “They do lust with their mouths.”
5 tn Heb “goes after.”
6 tn The present translation understands the term often used for “unjust gain” in a wider sense, following M. Greenberg, who also notes that the LXX uses a term which can describe either sexual or ritual pollution. See M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:687.
7 tn Heb “to eat bread.”
