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15 When the scouts survey[a] the land and see a human bone, they will place a sign by it, until those assigned to burial duty have buried it[b] in the valley of Hamon Gog. 16 (A city by the name of Hamonah[c] will also be there.) They will cleanse the land.’

17 “As for you, son of man, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Tell every kind of bird and every wild beast: ‘Assemble and come! Gather from all around to my slaughter[d] that I am going to make for you, a great slaughter on the mountains of Israel! You will eat flesh and drink blood.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 39:15 tn Heb “as the scouts scout.”
  2. Ezekiel 39:15 tn That is, the aforementioned bone.
  3. Ezekiel 39:16 tn This name appears to be a feminine form of the word “horde,” used in the name Hamon Gog.
  4. Ezekiel 39:17 tn Or “sacrifice” (so also in the rest of this verse).