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Connecting Statement:
Yahweh continues to tell Ezekiel what will happen to Gog.
seven months
"7 months." (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers)
the house of Israel
The word "house" is a metonym for the family that lives in the house, in this case the Israelites, the descendants of Jacob over many years. See how you translated this in Ezekiel 3:1. Alternate translation: "the Israelites" or "the Israelite people group" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy)
will bury them in order to purify the land
In Jewish law, a dead body defiled anything it touched and made it "unclean." Burying these bodies is spoken of as cleansing or purifying the land. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit)
bury them
"bury the soldiers of Gog's army"