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They built with pine trees from Senir
    all of your boards for you;
they took cedars from Lebanon
    to make a sailing mast for you.[a]
They made your oars
    with oaks from Bashan;
your deck they made with inlaid ivory,
    with cypress trees from the coastlands of Cyprus.[b]
Your sail was fine linen with colorful weaving from Egypt
    to serve as a banner for you;[c]
blue and purple cloth from the coastlands of Cyprus[d]
    was your awning.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 27:5 Literally “on you”
  2. Ezekiel 27:6 According to the reading tradition (Qere)
  3. Ezekiel 27:7 Literally “to be for you as a banner”
  4. Ezekiel 27:7 Or “Elishah”

They made all your timbers
    of juniper from Senir[a];(A)
they took a cedar from Lebanon(B)
    to make a mast for you.
Of oaks(C) from Bashan
    they made your oars;
of cypress wood[b] from the coasts of Cyprus(D)
    they made your deck, adorned with ivory.
Fine embroidered linen(E) from Egypt was your sail
    and served as your banner;
your awnings were of blue and purple(F)
    from the coasts of Elishah.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 27:5 That is, Mount Hermon
  2. Ezekiel 27:6 Targum; the Masoretic Text has a different division of the consonants.