EZE 39:12 Parallel View

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ULT For seven months the house of Israel will bury them in order to purify the land.

UST For seven months the people of Israel will be burying your corpses. It will be necessary to bury all of them, in order that the land will not be defiled because of any unburied corpses.

BSB For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land.

OEB And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they may cleanse the land.

WEB “‘“The house of Israel will be burying them for seven months, that they may cleanse the land.

NET For seven months Israel will bury them, in order to cleanse the land.

LSV And the house of Israel has buried them—in order to cleanse the land—seven months.

FBV It will take the people of Israel seven months to bury them in order to make the country clean.

T4T For seven months the people of Israel will be burying those corpses. It will be necessary to bury all of them, in order that the land will not be ◄defiled/considered unacceptable to me► because of any unburied corpses.

LEB And the house of Israel will bury them for seven months to cleanse the land.

BBE And the children of Israel will be seven months putting them in the earth, so as to make the land clean.

MOF No MOF EZE book available

JPS And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they may cleanse the land.

ASV And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they may cleanse the land.

DRA And the house of Israel shall bury them for seven months to cleanse the land.

YLT And the house of Israel have buried them — in order to cleanse the land — seven months.

DBY And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they may cleanse the land;

RV And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.

WBS And seven months shall the house of Israel be in burying them, that they may cleanse the land.

KJB And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.

BB Seuen monethes long shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the lande.
(Seven months long shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.)

GNV And seuen moneths long shall the house of Israel be burying of the, that they may clense the land.
(And seven months long shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may clense the land. )

CB Seuen monethes longe shall the house of Israel be burienge of them, that they maye clense the lode:
(Seven months long shall the house of Israel be burienge of them, that they may clense the lode:)

WYC And the hous of Israel schulen birie hem, that thei clense the lond in seuene monethis.
(And the house of Israel should birie them, that they clense the land in seven monthis.)

LUT Es wird sie aber das Haus Israel begraben sieben Monden lang, damit das Land gereiniget werde.
(It becomes they/she/them but the Haus Israel begraben seven Monden lang, damit the Land gereiniget become.)

CLV Et sepelient eos domus Israël, ut mundent terram septem mensibus.
(And sepelient them domus Israël, as mundent the_earth/land seven mensibus. )

BRN And the house of Israel shall bury them, that the land may be cleansed in the space of seven months.

BrLXX Καὶ κατορύξουσιν αὐτοὺς οἶκος Ἰσραὴλ, ἵνα καθαρισθῇ ἡ γῆ ἐν ἑπταμήνῳ.
(Kai katoruxousin autous oikos Israaʸl, hina katharisthaʸ haʸ gaʸ en heptamaʸnōi. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Connecting Statement:

Yahweh continues to tell Ezekiel what will happen to Gog.

Note 1 topic: translate-numbers

(Occurrence 0) seven months

(Some words not found in UHB: and,burying,them house_of Yisrael in_order_to cleanse DOM the=earth/land seven months )

“7 months.”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

(Occurrence 0) the house of Israel

(Some words not found in UHB: and,burying,them house_of Yisrael in_order_to cleanse DOM the=earth/land seven months )

The word “house” is a metonym for the family that lives in the house, in this case the Israelites, the descendants of Jacob over many years. See how you translated this in Ezekiel 3:1. Alternate translation: “the Israelites” or “the Israelite people group”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

(Occurrence 0) will bury them in order to purify the land

(Some words not found in UHB: and,burying,them house_of Yisrael in_order_to cleanse DOM the=earth/land seven months )

In Jewish law, a dead body defiled anything it touched and made it “unclean.” Burying these bodies is spoken of as cleansing or purifying the land.

(Occurrence 0) bury them

(Some words not found in UHB: and,burying,them house_of Yisrael in_order_to cleanse DOM the=earth/land seven months )

Alternate translation: “bury the soldiers of Gog’s army”

Parallel EZE 39:12

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