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The Great Isaiah Scroll, chapter 53, Qumran scribe

Ezekiel 16:4

Qumran scribe, The Great Isaiah Scroll, chapter 53, c. 125 BC · Israel Museum, Jerusalem · Public domainQumran scribe, The Great Isaiah Scroll, chapter 53, c. 125 BC, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

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Ezekiel 16:4 (WEB)

As for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was not cut. You weren’t washed in water to cleanse you. You weren’t salted at all, nor wrapped in blankets at all.

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  • “When Ezekiel tells us how Jerusalem is found in the plain of wandering, covered with blood, he uses the words: “Thy navel has not been cut.”” — editor's note: Ezek. xvi. 4–6.

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  • “At no time let her go abroad, lest the watchmen find her that go about the city, and lest they smite and wound her and take away from her the veil of her chastity, and leave her naked in her blood.” — editor's note: Cf. Ezek. xvi. 1–10.

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