Ezekiel 29 — Egypt’s monster and Babylon’s wages — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: 29:3, 29:7
Each card keeps the independently rendered source readings above their shared comparison and reception notes. The badge records the source’s governing classification; disparate readings are marked in red. Each reading retains its original reference.
Ezekiel 29 — Egypt’s monster and Babylon’s wages
29:1–29:7 — Pharaoh, the monster and the reed
Verse 29:1 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[29:1] In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth of the month, YHWH's word came to me, saying,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[29:1] In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the first of the month, the Lord's word came to me, saying,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew twelfth day differs from Greek first day; both dates are preserved.
Verse 29:2 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[29:2] Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[29:2] Son of man, fix your face upon Pharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all Egypt,
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The scope of the oracle corresponds.
Verse 29:3 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[29:3] Speak and say: Thus says Lord YHWH: I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster lying among his Nile channels, who says, My Nile is mine, and I made myself.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[29:3] and say: Thus says the Lord: Look, I am against Pharaoh, the great dragon seated among his rivers, who says, The rivers are mine, and I made them.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew I made myself differs from Greek I made them. The difficult Hebrew suffix is retained rather than changed to for myself or supplied it. Greek lacks king of Egypt here and uses rivers in the plural rather than Hebrew the boast's singular Nile.
Verse 29:4 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[29:4] I will put hooks in your jaws and make the fish of your Nile channels cling to your scales. I will bring you up from among your Nile channels, and all the fish of your Nile channels will cling to your scales.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[29:4] I will put traps in your jaws and fasten the fish of your river to your fins. I will bring you up from the midst of your river, and all the fish of your river,
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek traps/fins differs from Hebrew hooks/scales, uses river singular, and lacks the repeated final clinging clause.
Verse 29:5 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[29:5] I will abandon you in the wilderness, you and all the fish of your Nile channels. You will fall on the open field; you will not be gathered or collected. I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the heavens.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[29:5] and I will cast you down quickly, and all the fish of your river. You will fall on the face of the plain; you will certainly not be gathered or wrapped for burial. I have given you for food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of heaven.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek quickly differs from Hebrew wilderness; Greek wrapped for burial interprets peristellō in the corpse context, while Hebrew has two gathering verbs.
Verse 29:6 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[29:6] All the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am YHWH, because they were a reed staff for the house of Israel.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[29:6] All who inhabit Egypt will know that I am the Lord, because you became a reed staff for the house of Israel.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek you became differs from Hebrew they were.
Verse 29:7 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[29:7] When they grasped you by the hand, you broke and tore every shoulder for them; when they leaned on you, you shattered and made all their loins stand.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[29:7] When they took hold of you with their hand, you were crushed; and when every hand prevailed against them, and when they rested upon you, you were shattered and broke all their loins.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek every hand prevailed against them differs from Hebrew tore every shoulder. Hebrew made loins stand is deliberately literal and unresolved; made them shake is not silently substituted. The printed Hebrew hand suffix and the whole reed metaphor require textual review.
29:8–29:16 — Egypt’s desolation and return
Verse 29:8 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[29:8] Therefore thus says Lord YHWH: I am bringing a sword against you, and I will cut off human and animal from you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[29:8] Therefore thus says the Lord: Look, I am bringing a sword against you, and I will destroy humans and livestock from you.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The comprehensive cutting off corresponds to Greek destruction; Greek has one Lord.
Verse 29:9 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[29:9] The land of Egypt will become a desolation and a ruin, and they will know that I am YHWH, because he said, The Nile is mine, and I made it.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[29:9] The land of Egypt will become destruction and wilderness, and they will know that I am the Lord, because you say, The rivers are mine, and I made them.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew he said and singular Nile differs from Greek you say and plural rivers. Hebrew the object of made is supplied from the immediately preceding Nile; unlike verse three, no myself suffix is printed here.
Verse 29:10 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[29:10] Therefore I am against you and against your Nile channels. I will make the land of Egypt utterly ruined, a desolation, from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Cush.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[29:10] Therefore, look, I am against you and against all your rivers. I will make the land of Egypt a wilderness, a sword, and destruction, from Migdol and Syene as far as the borders of the Ethiopians.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek has sword where Hebrew has the repeated ruin/desolation wording, and all rivers; Greek and Syene differs from the contextual Hebrew range Migdol to Syene. Cush/Ethiopians is retained in each tradition, not equated with a modern state's borders.
Verse 29:11 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[29:11] No human foot will pass through it, nor will an animal's foot pass through it; it will not be inhabited for forty years.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[29:11] No human foot will pass through it, nor will livestock's foot pass through it; it will not be inhabited for forty years.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The exclusion and forty-year duration correspond.
Verse 29:12 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[29:12] I will make the land of Egypt a desolation among desolated lands, and its cities will be desolate among ruined cities for forty years. I will scatter Egypt among the nations and disperse them among the lands.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[29:12] I will make her land destruction amid desolated land, and her cities will be amid desolated cities for forty years. I will scatter Egypt among the nations and winnow them into the countries.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek has her land, singular desolated land, and the winnowing image; it does not separately repeat the predicate desolate for the cities.
Verse 29:13 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[29:13] For thus says Lord YHWH: At the end of forty years I will gather Egypt from the peoples where they were scattered.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[29:13] Thus says the Lord: After forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the nations where they were scattered,
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The regathering and duration correspond; Greek names the Egyptians rather than Egypt.
Verse 29:14 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[29:14] I will restore Egypt's fortunes and return them to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin; there they will be a lowly kingdom.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[29:14] and I will turn back the captivity of the Egyptians and settle them in the land of Pathros, in the land from which they were taken; it will be a lowly dominion
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek captivity and land from which taken differs from Hebrew restoration of fortunes and land of origin. The Greek comparative construction continues in verse fifteen.
Verse 29:15 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[29:15] It will be the lowliest of kingdoms and will no longer exalt itself over the nations. I will make them few, so that they do not rule over the nations.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[29:15] among all the dominions; it will no longer be exalted over the nations, and I will make them few, so that they are not more numerous among the nations.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek numerical comparison differs from Hebrew ruling over nations. The lowly dominion clause begins in the preceding Greek verse.
Verse 29:16 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[29:16] It will no longer be a source of trust for the house of Israel, bringing iniquity to remembrance when they turn after them. They will know that I am Lord YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[29:16] They will no longer be a hope for the house of Israel, bringing lawlessness to remembrance when they follow after them. They will know that I am the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The rejection of reliance corresponds; Greek plural they and hope differs from Hebrew singular it and trust.
29:17–29:21 — Egypt as Babylon’s wages
Verse 29:17 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[29:17] In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first of the month, YHWH's word came to me, saying,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[29:17] In the twenty-seventh year, on the first of the first month, the Lord's word came to me, saying,
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The second oracle's date corresponds.
Verse 29:18 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[29:18] Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army perform great labor against Tyre; every head was bald and every shoulder rubbed bare. Yet neither he nor his army received wages from Tyre for the labor he performed against her.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[29:18] Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon subjected his force to great servitude against Tyre; every head was bald and every shoulder losing its hair. Yet neither he nor his force received wages for Tyre and the servitude they performed against her.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek subjected to servitude and they labored differs from Hebrew made labor and he labored. No narrative of a specific siege engineering practice is inserted into the bodily images.
Verse 29:19 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[29:19] Therefore thus says Lord YHWH: I am giving the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. He will carry away her abundance, take her spoil, and plunder her plunder; it will be wages for his army.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[29:19] Thus says the Lord, the Lord: Look, I give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. He will take her booty and strip her spoils; it will be wages for his force.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks the separate carrying-away-of-her-abundance clause; the grant and wages correspond.
Verse 29:20 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[29:20] As his payment for the labor he performed against her, I have given him the land of Egypt, because they acted for Me—the declaration of Lord YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[29:20] In exchange for his service, which he performed against Tyre, I have given him the land of Egypt. Thus says the Lord, the Lord:
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek explicitly names Tyre and lacks because they acted for Me. Its thus-says formula introduces the following promise.
Verse 29:21 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[29:21] On that day I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel, and I will give you an opening of the mouth among them. They will know that I am YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[29:21] On that day a horn will spring up for the whole house of Israel, and I will give you an opened mouth among them. They will know that I am the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek the horn springs up and whole house differs from Hebrew I cause it to sprout and house. Horn remains a metaphor rather than being replaced with power or a named ruler.