³ tn Or “exactly twenty-five.”

² tn Grk “twenty thousand of ten thousands.”

⁵ tn Heb “from twenty years and upward.”

³ tc The LXX reads “twenty” instead of “twenty-five,” perhaps because of the association of the number twenty with the Mesopotamian sun god Shamash.

³ tn The text simply has “from twenty years old and higher.”

¹ tn Heb “In the seventh [month], on the twenty-first day of the month.”

² tn Heb “twenty-five cubits” (i.e., 13.125 meters).

² sn The twenty-fifth day would be March 20, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

¹ sn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:28 has “twenty-seventh.”

¹ sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”

² sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

² tn Heb “from a son of twenty years and until a son of sixty years.”

³ tc The translation follows the LXX here. The MT reads “twenty.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:246.

¹ tn The first word of the twenty-second line begins with ת (tav), the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

¹ tn Heb “blessing.” It is as if Jacob is trying to repay what he stole from his brother twenty years earlier.

¹ tn Grk “about twenty-five or thirty stades” (a stade as a unit of linear measure is about 607 feet or 185 meters).

⁴ sn There were twenty-four divisions of priesthood and the priestly division of Abijah was eighth on the list according to 1 Chr 24:10.

¹ sn The twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month…in Darius’ second year was February 15, 519 b.c.

² sn Again, the twenty-fourth day of the month was Kislev 24 or December 18, 520 b.c. See v. 10.

¹ sn The twenty-fourth day of the ninth month of Darius’ second year was Kislev 24 or December 18, 520 b.c.