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Ezra 6:11
New English Translation
Ezra 6:11
New English Translation
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[a] on it, and his house is to be reduced[b] to a rubbish heap[c] for this indiscretion.[d]
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- Ezra 6:11 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 last seems the most likely.
- Ezra 6:11 tn Aram “made.”
- Ezra 6:11 tn Aram “a dunghill.”
- Ezra 6:11 tn Aram “for this.”
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