Ezekiel 22 — The bloodstained city and the furnace — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: 22:16, 22:25, 22:29
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 22 — The bloodstained city and the furnace
22:1–22:16 — The city’s catalogue of wrongdoing
Verse 22:1 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[22:1] YHWH’s word came to me, saying,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[22:1] The Lord’s word came to me, saying,
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The word formula corresponds.
Verse 22:2 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[22:2] “And you, son of man, will you judge? Will you judge the city of bloodshed? Make all her abominations known to her.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[22:2] “And you, son of man, will you judge the city of bloodshed? Display all her lawless deeds to her,
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew repeats the judging question; Greek asks it once and names lawless deeds.
Verse 22:3 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[22:3] Say, ‘Thus says Lord YHWH: A city shedding blood within her so that her time may come, making idols against herself to defile herself!
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[22:3] and say, ‘Thus says the Lord, the Lord: O city shedding blood within her so that her time may come, making reflections against herself to defile herself!
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew idols corresponds to Greek enthymēmata, reflections or thoughts, not an explicit image noun.
Verse 22:4 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[22:4] Through your blood that you shed you became guilty, and through your idols that you made you became unclean. You brought your days near and came to your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mockery to all the lands.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[22:4] Through their blood that you shed you have transgressed, and through your reflections that you made you were defiled. You brought your days near and brought the season of your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mockery to all the countries
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew your blood becomes Greek their blood; idols/reflections recurs. Greek’s countries clause continues in 22:5.
Verse 22:5 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[22:5] Those near you and those far from you will mock you, unclean in name, abundant in turmoil!
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[22:5] near you and far away from you. They will mock you: “Unclean, the famous one, abundant in lawless deeds!”
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew unclean in name and turmoil contrasts with Greek the famous one and lawless deeds.
Verse 22:6 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[22:6] Behold, Israel’s princes were in you, each relying on his arm, in order to shed blood.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[22:6] Behold, the leaders of Israel’s house mingled themselves in you, each with his relatives, in order to shed blood.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Hebrew each according to his arm or power becomes Greek mingling with his relatives; the kinship language is not replaced with a power paraphrase.
Verse 22:7 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[22:7] They treated father and mother lightly in you. They dealt with the sojourner by extortion within you. They oppressed the orphan and widow in you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[22:7] They reviled father and mother in you and dealt unjustly with the sojourner in you. They oppressed the orphan and widow in you.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The three protected relationships correspond, with Hebrew treating lightly and extortion versus Greek reviling and injustices.
Verse 22:8 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[22:8] You despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[22:8] They despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths in you.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew addresses the city as you; Greek continues they and adds in you.
Verse 22:9 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[22:9] Slanderers were in you in order to shed blood. They ate upon the mountains in you; they committed lewdness within you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[22:9] Robbers are in you in order to shed blood in you. They ate upon the mountains in you; they committed unholy acts within you.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew slanderers becomes Greek robbers; lewdness becomes the wider unholy acts.
Verse 22:10 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[22:10] One uncovered a father’s nakedness in you; they violated a woman unclean through menstruation in you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[22:10] They uncovered a father’s shame in you, and they violated a woman sitting apart in uncleanness in you.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew’s first verb is singular, Greek plural. Greek describes sitting apart in uncleanness without an explicit menstruation noun.
Verse 22:11 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[22:11] One committed an abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another defiled his daughter-in-law with lewdness; another violated his sister, his father’s daughter, in you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[22:11] Each acted lawlessly with his neighbor’s wife; each defiled his daughter-in-law with impiety; each violated his sister, his father’s daughter, in you.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: All three relationships remain; lewdness becomes Greek impiety.
Verse 22:12 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[22:12] They took bribes in you in order to shed blood. You took interest and increase, and gained unjustly from your neighbors through extortion. You forgot Me, declares Lord YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[22:12] They took gifts in you in order to shed blood; they took interest and increase in you. You brought your evil in oppression to its full completion, but you forgot Me, says the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew addresses the city’s interest taking and gain from neighbors; Greek has they taking interest and the city completing its oppressive evil.
Verse 22:13 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[22:13] Behold, I have struck My palm against the unjust gain you made and against the bloodshed that was within you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[22:13] But if I strike My hand against My hand over what you have completed, what you did, and over your bloodshed that occurred within you,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew announces a completed hand strike against unjust gain; Greek has a conditional hand-against-hand gesture leading into 22:14.
Verse 22:14 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[22:14] Will your heart stand, or will your hands remain strong, in the days when I deal with you? I, YHWH, have spoken and will act.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[22:14] will your heart hold out? Will your hands prevail in the days when I act within you? I, the Lord, have spoken and will act.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The two questions agree in substance; Greek completes the condition begun in 22:13.
Verse 22:15 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[22:15] I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you among the lands. I will put an end to your uncleanness from you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[22:15] I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you among the countries, and your uncleanness will cease from you.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew explicitly makes God end the uncleanness; Greek says it will cease.
Verse 22:16 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[22:16] You will be profaned in yourself before the nations’ eyes, and you will know that I am YHWH.’”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[22:16] I will take possession in you before the nations’ eyes, and you will know that I am the Lord.’”
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew weniḥalt is provisionally taken as being profaned; its form and sense require further specialist review. Greek explicitly has God taking possession, and its final you is plural against Hebrew’s singular city.
22:17–22:22 — The furnace and the mixed metals
Verse 22:17 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[22:17] YHWH’s word came to me, saying,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[22:17] The Lord’s word came to me, saying,
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The renewed word formula corresponds.
Verse 22:18 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[22:18] “Son of man, Israel’s house has become dross to Me. All of them are copper, tin, iron and lead within a furnace; they have become silver dross.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[22:18] “Son of man, behold, Israel’s house has become mixed to Me, all of them with copper, iron, tin and lead; it is mixed amid silver.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew calls Israel dross and names a furnace. Greek describes a mixture with metals and amid silver, without dross or furnace here. The metal order differs.
Verse 22:19 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[22:19] Therefore thus says Lord YHWH: Because all of you have become dross, therefore behold, I am gathering you into Jerusalem.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[22:19] Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord: Because all of you became one mixture, therefore I am receiving you into Jerusalem.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Dross versus one mixture recurs; Hebrew gathering becomes Greek receiving.
Verse 22:20 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[22:20] As silver, copper, iron, lead and tin are gathered into a furnace to blow fire upon it to melt it, so I will gather you in My anger and My fury. I will place you there and melt you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[22:20] As silver, copper, iron, tin and lead are received into a furnace to blow fire into it to melt it, so I will receive you in My anger, gather you and melt you,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Lead/tin order differs. Hebrew names anger and fury and placing; Greek anger alone and gathering.
Verse 22:21 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[22:21] I will gather you and blow upon you with the fire of My wrath, and you will melt within her.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[22:21] and blow upon you with the fire of My anger, and you will be melted within her.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek continues 22:20 and lacks Hebrew’s renewed I will gather you.
Verse 22:22 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[22:22] As silver melts within a furnace, so you will melt within her. You will know that I, YHWH, have poured My fury upon you.’”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[22:22] As silver is melted within a furnace, so you will be melted within her. You will recognize that I, the Lord, have poured My wrath upon you.’”
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The furnace comparison and divine recognition correspond.
22:23–22:31 — Leaders, priests, prophets and the land
Verse 22:23 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[22:23] YHWH’s word came to me, saying,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[22:23] The Lord’s word came to me, saying,
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The renewed word formula corresponds.
Verse 22:24 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[22:24] “Son of man, say to her, ‘You are a land not cleansed, not rained upon on the day of indignation.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[22:24] “Son of man, say to her, ‘You are a land not wetted, nor did rain come upon you on the day of wrath.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew’s first predicate is not cleansed; Greek’s is not wetted.
Verse 22:25 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[22:25] The conspiracy of her prophets within her is like a roaring lion tearing prey. They devour lives; they take wealth and precious things; they multiply her widows within her.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[22:25] Her leaders within her are like roaring lions seizing prey, devouring lives with power, taking payments unjustly, and your widows have multiplied within you.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew accuses a conspiracy of prophets, with one lion and taking wealth; Greek accuses leaders, with lions, power and unjust payments. Greek shifts from her to your widows.
Verse 22:26 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[22:26] Her priests violated My instruction and profaned My holy things. They did not distinguish between holy and ordinary, nor make known the distinction between unclean and clean. They hid their eyes from My Sabbaths, and I was profaned among them.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[22:26] Her priests set aside My law and profaned My holy things. They did not distinguish between holy and profane, nor distinguish between unclean and clean. They covered their eyes from My Sabbaths, and I was profaned among them.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew instruction/Torah is Greek law. Hebrew’s second pair is not made known; Greek repeats not distinguishing.
Verse 22:27 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[22:27] Her officials within her are like wolves tearing prey, shedding blood and destroying lives in order to gain unjust gain.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[22:27] Her rulers within her are like wolves seizing prey to shed blood, so that in greed they may gain more.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek lacks Hebrew’s explicit destroying lives; both retain predatory rulers and gain.
Verse 22:28 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[22:28] Her prophets coat unsound plaster for them, seeing emptiness and divining lies for them, saying, “Thus says Lord YHWH,” when YHWH has not spoken.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[22:28] Her prophets, coating them, will fall, seeing vain things, divining falsehoods, saying, “Thus says the Lord,” when the Lord has not spoken,
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Hebrew names unsound plaster; Greek makes the coating prophets fall. Greek’s sentence continues with participles in 22:29.
Verse 22:29 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[22:29] The people of the land practice oppression and seize plunder. They oppress the poor and needy, and extort from the sojourner without justice.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[22:29] oppressing the people of the land unjustly and seizing plunder, oppressing the poor and needy and not dealing justly with the sojourner.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew’s people of the land are the perpetrators; Greek makes them the object of the preceding prophets’ oppression. This subject/object reversal is preserved.
Verse 22:30 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[22:30] I sought among them a man building a fence and standing in the breach before Me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy her, but I found none.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[22:30] I sought among them a man conducting himself rightly and standing wholly before Me at the land’s time, so that I would not utterly wipe her out, but I found none.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Hebrew’s fence, breach and on behalf of the land become Greek right conduct and a difficult at the land’s time expression. No breach imagery or explanatory time of need is imported into Greek.
Verse 22:31 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[22:31] I poured My indignation upon them; I consumed them with the fire of My wrath. I brought their way upon their own heads, declares Lord YHWH.’”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[22:31] I poured My wrath upon her in the fire of My anger to bring an end. I brought their ways upon their own heads, says the Lord, the Lord.’”
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew has them and completed consuming; Greek her and a purpose infinitive without an expressed object. Both conclude with their own heads.