Ezekiel 22:10

10 They uncover [the] nakedness of [a] father among you; they violate [a woman] unclean of menstruation among you.

Ezekiel 22:10 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 22:10

In thee have they discovered their father's nakedness
Or, "he discovered" ^F2, or "uncovered", it being in the singular number; though the Targum, Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and all the Oriental versions, read in the plural; this, though committed, was done but by a few; it being a sin not so much as named among men, as for a man to lie with his father's wife, ( 1 Corinthians 5:1 ) as Reuben did, ( Genesis 35:22 ) and which is expressly forbidden; and is mentioned first as the capital sin of uncleanness, ( Leviticus 18:6 ) : in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution;
ravished and deflowered such women who had their menstrues; to lie with such was prohibited by the law of God, ( Leviticus 18:19 ) ( 20:18 ) , so that here was a double sin committed; a rape of a woman, whether married or unmarried, at the time of her purgation or sickness; and such a copulation, which at another time would be lawful, ought to be abstained from at such a time, as prejudicial to themselves, and to their posterity, as well as contrary to the divine law.

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FOOTNOTES:

F2 (hlg) "revelavit", Montanus; "discooperuit", Vatablus; "retegit", Junius & Tremellius, Polanus; "[sub.] filius", Piscator.

Ezekiel 22:10 In-Context

8 You despised my holy objects; my Sabbaths you profaned.

9 Slanderous men are {among you} to shed blood, and they, {among you}, eat upon the mountains; they do wickedness in the midst of you.

10 They uncover [the] nakedness of [a] father among you; they violate [a woman] unclean of menstruation among you.

11 And a man does a detestable thing [with] the wife of his neighbor, and a man defiles his daughter-in-law in wickedness, and a man sexually violates among you his sister, the daughter of his father.

12 They take a bribe among you in order to shed blood; and you take usury, and you make gain [from] your neighbors by extortion, and [so] you have forgotten me, {declares} the Lord Yahweh.

Footnotes

• [a] Hebrew "in"
• [b] Hebrew "in"