Ezekiel 39:14
ContextNET © | They will designate men to scout continually 1 through the land, burying those who remain on the surface of the ground, 2 in order to cleanse it. They will search for seven full months. |
NIV © | "‘Men will be regularly employed to cleanse the land. Some will go throughout the land and, in addition to them, others will bury those that remain on the ground. At the end of the seven months they will begin their search. |
NASB © | "They will set apart men who will constantly pass through the land, burying those who were passing through, even those left on the surface of the ground, in order to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make a search. |
NLT © | At the end of the seven months, special crews will be appointed to search the land for any skeletons and to bury them, so the land will be made clean again. |
MSG © | Men will be hired full-time for the cleanup burial operation and will go through the country looking for defiling, decomposing corpses. At the end of seven months, there'll be an all-out final search. |
BBE © | And they will put on one side men to do no other work but to go through the land and put in the earth the rest of those who are still on the face of the land, to make it clean: after seven months are ended they are to make a search. |
NRSV © | They will set apart men to pass through the land regularly and bury any invaders who remain on the face of the land, so as to cleanse it; for seven months they shall make their search. |
NKJV © | "They will set apart men regularly employed, with the help of a search party, to pass through the land and bury those bodies remaining on the ground, in order to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make a search. |
KJV | |
NASB © | "They will set <0914> apart <0914> men <0376> who will constantly <08548> pass <05674> through the land <0776> , burying <06912> those who were passing <05674> through <05674> , even <0853> those left <03498> on the surface <06440> of the ground <0776> , in order to cleanse <02891> it. At the end <07097> of seven <07651> months <02320> they will make <02713> a search .<02713> |
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NET © [draft] ITL | |
NET © | They will designate men to scout continually 1 through the land, burying those who remain on the surface of the ground, 2 in order to cleanse it. They will search for seven full months. |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “men of perpetuity.” 2 tn Heb “and bury the travelers and those who remain on the surface of the ground.” The reference to “travelers” seems odd and is omitted in the LXX. It is probably an accidental duplication (see v. 11). |