Ezekiel 6 — The mountains, the idols and the survivors — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: 6:9
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 6 — The mountains, the idols and the survivors
6:1–6:7 — Judgment on the high places
Verse 6:1 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[6:1] YHWH’s word came to me, saying,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[6:1] The Lord’s word came to me, saying,
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The prophetic-word introduction corresponds.
Verse 6:2 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[6:2] “Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel and prophesy to them.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[6:2] “Son of man, set your face firmly against the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them,
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Both address Israel’s mountains; Greek stresses firmness and hostile direction.
Verse 6:3 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[6:3] Say, ‘Mountains of Israel, hear the word of Lord YHWH. Thus says Lord YHWH to the mountains, hills, ravines and valleys: Behold, I am bringing a sword against you and will destroy your high places.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[6:3] and say, ‘Mountains of Israel, hear the Lord’s word. Thus says the Lord to the mountains, hills, ravines and wooded valleys: Behold, I am bringing a sword against you, and your high places will be destroyed,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew explicitly makes God destroy the high places; Greek uses passive destruction. Greek napai describes wooded valleys; both preserve the terrain list.
Verse 6:4 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[6:4] Your altars will be devastated and your incense altars broken; I will cast your slain before your idols.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[6:4] and your altars and your sacred precincts will be shattered; I will cast down your wounded before your idols,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew incense altars become Greek sacred precincts, and Hebrew slain become Greek wounded.
Verse 6:5 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[6:5] I will place the corpses of the sons of Israel before their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[6:5] and I will scatter your bones around your altars.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks the entire Hebrew corpses-before-idols clause; the scattering of bones remains.
Verse 6:6 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[6:6] In all your dwelling places the cities will be ruined and the high places desolate, so that your altars are ruined and laid waste, your idols broken and brought to an end, your incense altars cut down, and your works wiped out.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[6:6] In all your dwelling territory the cities will be made desolate and the high places will disappear, so that your altars are destroyed, your idols shattered, and your sacred precincts removed;
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek compresses the paired destruction verbs and lacks the final wiping-out of works; incense altars again correspond to sacred precincts.
Verse 6:7 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[6:7] The slain will fall in your midst, and you will know that I am YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[6:7] wounded people will fall in your midst, and you will recognize that I am the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew’s slain and Greek’s wounded differ as in verse four; the recognition formula agrees.
6:8–6:10 — Survivors and remembrance
Verse 6:8 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[6:8] Yet I will leave a remainder, when you have survivors of the sword among the nations, when you are scattered in the lands.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[6:8] When there are among you survivors of the sword among the nations, and in your scattering in the lands,
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks Hebrew’s explicit divine leaving of a remainder and begins a temporal sentence continued in verse nine.
Verse 6:9 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[6:9] Your survivors will remember Me among the nations where they were taken captive: how I was broken by their whoring heart that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that whored after their idols. They will loathe themselves for the evils they did, for all their abominations.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[6:9] the survivors from among you will remember Me among the nations where they were taken captive. I have sworn against their heart that whores away from Me and their eyes that whore after their pursuits; they will beat their faces over all their abominations.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew’s niphal I was broken is retained with its difficult following objects; Greek says I have sworn. Hebrew self-loathing becomes Greek beating faces, and idols become pursuits. These alter both divine portrayal and human response.
Verse 6:10 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[6:10] They will know that I am YHWH; I did not speak in vain about bringing this evil upon them.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[6:10] They will recognize that I, the Lord, have spoken.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks the entire Hebrew assertion that the announced evil was not spoken in vain.
6:11–6:14 — The enacted lament and devastation
Verse 6:11 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[6:11] Thus says Lord YHWH: Clap your hand, stamp your foot, and say, “Alas!” over all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, for they will fall by sword, famine and pestilence.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[6:11] Thus says the Lord: Clap your hand, stamp your foot, and say, “Aha! Aha!” over all the abominations of the house of Israel; they will fall by sword, death and famine.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew gives a single lamenting cry; Greek repeats euge, rendered Aha in this judgment context. Famine and pestilence/death reverse order.
Verse 6:12 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[6:12] The one far away will die by pestilence, the one near will fall by the sword, and the one left and besieged will die by famine; I will spend My fury upon them.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[6:12] The one near will fall by the sword, the one far away will die by death, and the one enclosed will perish by famine; I will complete My anger against them.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Near and far reverse order, but the corresponding disasters agree in outline. Greek has death rather than explicit pestilence and lacks Hebrew left.
Verse 6:13 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[6:13] You will know that I am YHWH when their slain lie among their idols, around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, beneath every flourishing tree and beneath every thick-leaved terebinth, the place where they offered a pleasing aroma to all their idols.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[6:13] You will know that I am the Lord when your wounded lie among your idols, around your altars, on every high hill and beneath a shady tree, where they offered a fragrant aroma to all their idols.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks mountaintops and the separate flourishing-tree and terebinth descriptions. Hebrew begins their slain; Greek your wounded. Both locate illicit offerings at the sites.
Verse 6:14 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[6:14] I will stretch out My hand against them and make the land a desolation and a horror, from the wilderness toward Diblah, in all their dwelling places; they will know that I am YHWH.’”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[6:14] I will stretch out My hand against them and make the land disappearance and destruction, from the wilderness of Deblatha, from every dwelling place; you will recognize that I am the Lord.’”
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew’s directional Diblah form is preserved without emending it to Riblah. Greek gives Deblatha and a difficult from-every-dwelling phrase, then addresses you instead of they.