Ezekiel 13 — False prophets and deceptive practices — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: 13:5, 13:18, 13:20
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 13 — False prophets and deceptive practices
13:1–13:9 — Visions without a divine commission
Verse 13:1 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[13:1] YHWH’s word came to me, saying,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[13:1] The Lord’s word came to me, saying,
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The opening word formula agrees.
Verse 13:2 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[13:2] “Son of man, prophesy against Israel’s prophets who prophesy, and say to those prophesying from their own heart, ‘Hear YHWH’s word!
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[13:2] “Son of man, prophesy against Israel’s prophets; you shall prophesy and say to them, ‘Hear the Lord’s word!
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks from their own heart here and gives a further second-person prophesy; its heart phrase occurs in 13:3.
Verse 13:3 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[13:3] Thus says Lord YHWH: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[13:3] Thus says the Lord: Woe to those who prophesy from their own heart and see nothing at all!
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew has foolish prophets following their spirit; Greek has prophesying from their heart and no separate foolish designation.
Verse 13:4 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[13:4] Your prophets, Israel, have been like foxes among ruins.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[13:4] Your prophets, Israel, are like foxes in the wildernesses.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew locates the foxes among ruins; Greek in deserted places.
Verse 13:5 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[13:5] You have not gone up into the breaches or built a fence around the house of Israel to stand in battle on YHWH’s day.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[13:5] They did not stand in a firm position, and they gathered flocks against the house of Israel. Those saying, ‘On the Lord’s day,’ did not rise.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew addresses the prophets concerning breached defenses and battle; Greek uses third-person verbs, a firm position, gathered flocks and speakers who did not rise. Greek’s gathered-flocks clause is not converted into Hebrew’s fence.
Verse 13:6 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[13:6] They have seen emptiness and lying divination, those who say, ‘YHWH declares,’ although YHWH has not sent them; yet they hope for a word to be confirmed.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[13:6] They see false things and divine vain things, those who say, ‘The Lord says,’ although the Lord has not sent them; and they began to establish a word.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew describes hoping for confirmation; Greek beginning to establish a word. Both deny the claimed sending.
Verse 13:7 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[13:7] Have you not seen an empty vision and spoken lying divination, saying, ‘YHWH declares,’ although I have not spoken?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[13:7] Have you not seen a false vision and spoken vain divinations?
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks the entire repeated claim of divine declaration and God’s denial of speaking.
Verse 13:8 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[13:8] Therefore thus says Lord YHWH: Because you have spoken emptiness and seen lies, therefore behold, I am against you, declares Lord YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[13:8] Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord: Because your words are false and your divinations vain, therefore behold, I am against you, says the Lord,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek explicitly commands say and speaks of their words and divinations, where Hebrew has their speaking and seeing.
Verse 13:9 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[13:9] My hand will be against the prophets who see emptiness and divine lies. They will not belong to My people’s council, nor be written in the register of the house of Israel, nor enter Israel’s soil. You will know that I am Lord YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[13:9] and I will stretch out My hand against the prophets who see false things and utter vain things. They will not belong to My people’s instruction, nor be written in the register of the house of Israel, nor enter Israel’s land. They will know that I am the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew’s council becomes Greek paideia, instruction or discipline. Greek expressly stretches out the hand and gives they will know rather than you.
13:10–13:16 — The coated wall collapses
Verse 13:10 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[13:10] Because, yes because, they have misled My people, saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and one builds a partition, and behold, they coat it with unsound plaster—
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[13:10] Because they misled My people, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there was no peace, and this one builds a wall, and they coat it—if it will fall,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew doubles because and names an unsound coating; Greek doubles peace, leaves the coating unspecified and ends with an if-it-will-fall clause continued into 13:11.
Verse 13:11 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[13:11] say to those coating it with unsound plaster that it will fall. There will be a flooding downpour, and you, hailstones, will fall; a storm wind will split it.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[13:11] say to those coating it, ‘It will fall.’ There will be a flooding downpour, and I will put stones for hurling into their bonds, and they will fall; there will be an upending wind, and it will be split.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew addresses falling hailstones; Greek explicitly makes God put projectile stones into their bonds. Greek’s unusual bonds expression is retained without substitution from the Hebrew storm.
Verse 13:12 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[13:12] And behold, the wall has fallen! Will it not be said to you, ‘Where is the coating with which you coated it?’
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[13:12] And behold, the wall has fallen! Will they not say to you, ‘Where is your coating with which you coated it?’
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Both are read as a negative rhetorical question about the failed coating; Greek names speakers and your coating where Hebrew is impersonal.
Verse 13:13 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[13:13] Therefore thus says Lord YHWH: I will unleash a storm wind in My fury; a flooding downpour will come in My anger, and hailstones in fury for complete destruction.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[13:13] Therefore thus says the Lord: I will unleash an upending blast with wrath; a flooding downpour will come in My anger, and I will bring the projectile stones in wrath for complete destruction,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek expressly brings projectile stones; Hebrew names hailstones. The destructive wind and rain correspond.
Verse 13:14 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[13:14] I will tear down the wall you coated with unsound plaster and bring it to the ground; its foundation will be uncovered. It will fall, and you will be consumed within it. You will know that I am YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[13:14] and I will tear down the wall you coated, and it will fall. I will lay it upon the ground; its foundations will be uncovered, and it will fall, and you will be brought to an end with rebukes. You will recognize that I am the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek repeats it will fall and has plural foundations and ending with rebukes, against Hebrew’s ending within it. Greek again leaves the coating material unnamed.
Verse 13:15 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[13:15] I will spend My fury upon the wall and those coating it with unsound plaster, and say to you, ‘There is no wall, and there are no people coating it—
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[13:15] I will complete My wrath upon the wall and those coating it, and it will fall. I said to you, ‘There is no wall, nor those coating it—
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek adds another fall and uses I said, against Hebrew’s prospective speech.
Verse 13:16 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[13:16] the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem and see a vision of peace for her, when there is no peace,’ declares Lord YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[13:16] the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem and see peace for her, when there is no peace,’ says the Lord.’
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek lacks the explicit noun vision; both identify the deceptive prophets.
13:17–13:23 — The women who ensnare lives
Verse 13:17 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[13:17] And you, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people who prophesy from their own heart, and prophesy against them.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[13:17] And you, son of man, set your face firmly against the daughters of your people who prophesy from their own heart, and prophesy against them,
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The address and target correspond.
Verse 13:18 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[13:18] Say, ‘Thus says Lord YHWH: Woe to the women sewing cushions upon all the joints of My hands and making coverings upon the head of every stature, to hunt lives! You hunt the lives of My people and keep lives alive for yourselves.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[13:18] and say, ‘Thus says the Lord: Woe to the women sewing cushions upon every elbow of an arm and making coverings upon every head of every age, to distort lives! The lives of My people were distorted, and they were preserving lives.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: The displayed Hebrew yaday is provisionally retained as My hands despite the difficult context; Greek has an arm without that possessive. Hebrew stature/hunting/second-person preservation differs from Greek age/distortion/passive lives and third-person preservers. The exact function of cushions and coverings is not invented.
Verse 13:19 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[13:19] You have profaned Me among My people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread, putting to death lives that should not die and keeping alive lives that should not live, by your lying to My people who listen to lies.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[13:19] They were profaning Me among My people for a handful of barley and scraps of bread, putting to death lives that ought not die and preserving lives that ought not live, as you uttered things to a people listening to vain pronouncements.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew addresses you throughout and has plural handfuls; Greek begins with they and a singular handful, then shifts to you. Both retain the opposed wrongful death and preservation.
Verse 13:20 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[13:20] Therefore thus says Lord YHWH: Behold, I am against your cushions, with which you hunt lives there as flying things. I will tear them from your arms and release the lives—the lives you hunt as flying things.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[13:20] Therefore thus says the Lord, the Lord: Behold, I am against your cushions, upon which you entangle lives there. I will tear them from your arms and send the lives out—their lives that you twist away—into dispersion.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew repeats the difficult flying-things expression with hunted lives; Greek gives entangling, twisting away and dispersion. The doubled Greek Lord and the repeated life wording are retained. Neither column supplies an unmentioned ritual mechanism.
Verse 13:21 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[13:21] I will tear your coverings and rescue My people from your hand. They will no longer be in your hand as prey, and you will know that I am YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[13:21] I will tear your coverings and rescue My people from your hand. They will no longer be in your hands for entanglement, and you will recognize that I am the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew prey becomes Greek entanglement; the rescue agrees.
Verse 13:22 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[13:22] Because you have falsely grieved the righteous person’s heart, though I did not pain him, and strengthened the wicked person’s hands so that he does not turn from his evil way to preserve his life,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[13:22] Because you distorted the righteous person’s heart unjustly, though I was not distorting him, and strengthened the lawless person’s hands so that he does not turn at all from his evil way and live,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew grief and falsehood becomes Greek distortion and injustice; Greek explicitly intensifies the failure to turn with at all.
Verse 13:23 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[13:23] therefore you will no longer see emptiness or practice divination. I will rescue My people from your hand, and you will know that I am YHWH.’”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[13:23] therefore you certainly will no longer see false things or divine divinations. I will rescue My people from your hand, and you will know that I am the Lord.’”
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The cessation, rescue and recognition correspond.