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Ezra 6:11

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6:11 “I hereby give orders that if anyone changes this directive a beam is to be pulled out from his house and he is to be raised up and impaled 1  on it, and his house is to be reduced 2  to a rubbish heap 3  for this indiscretion. 4 

1 sn The practice referred to in v. 11 has been understood in various ways: hanging (cf. 1 Esd 6:32 and KJV); flogging (cf. NEB, NLT); impalement (BDB 1091 s.v. זְקַף; HALOT 1914 s.v. מחא hitpe; cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV). The latter seems the most likely.

2 tn Aram “made.”

3 tn Aram “a dunghill.”

4 tn Aram “for this.”



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