Ezekiel 22:10
8 You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.
9 Among you are slanderous men bent on bloodshed; within you are those who eat on the mountain shrines and commit acts of indecency.
In you they have uncovered the nakedness of their fathers; in you they violate women during their menstrual impurity.
11 One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another wickedly defiles his daughter-in-law; and yet another violates his sister, his own father’s daughter.
12 In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- In you they have uncovered the nakedness of their fathers; in you they violate women during their menstrual impurity.
- KJV
- In thee have they discovered their fathers’ nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.
- WEB
- In you have they uncovered their fathers’ nakedness. In you have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity.
- ASV
- In thee have they uncovered their fathers` nakedness; in thee have they humbled her that was unclean in her impurity.
- DARBY
- in thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness; in thee have they humbled her that was unclean in her separation.
- BLB
- The nakedness of their fathers they uncover among you; the impurity of the women they violate among you.
- ÅB
- Farens blusel blottedes hos deg; en kvinne som var uren i sin månedlige svakhet, krenkedes hos deg.
- OTB
- I deg er de som avdekker sin fars nakenhet; i deg er de som krenker kvinner i deres periode, når de er seremonielt urene.
- B1930
- Farens blusel blottedes hos dig; en kvinne som var uren i sin månedlige svakhet, krenkedes hos dig.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Leviticus 18:19
You must not approach a woman to have sexual relations with her during her menstrual period.
Read in contextEzekiel 18:6
He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her period.
Read in contextLeviticus 20:11
If a man lies with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness. Both must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
Read in contextLeviticus 18:7–8
You must not expose the nakedness of your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her.
Read in context1 Chronicles 5:1
These were the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel. Though he was the firstborn, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel, because Reuben defiled his father’s bed. So he is not reckoned according to birthright.
Read in contextGenesis 49:4
Uncontrolled as the waters, you will no longer excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, onto my couch, and defiled it.
Read in context2 Samuel 16:21–22
Ahithophel replied, “Sleep with your father’s concubines, whom he has left to keep the palace. When all Israel hears that you have become a stench to your father, then the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.”
Read in contextDeuteronomy 27:20
‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his father’s wife, for he has violated his father’s marriage bed.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
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