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# General Information:
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Yahweh continues giving Ezekiel his message to the house of Israel.
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# Why do you make yourselves unclean with the ways of your fathers?
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Yahweh asks this question to rebuke the people. Alternate translation: "You should not make yourselves unclean by doing the things that your fathers did." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# Why do you make yourselves unclean
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A person who is not acceptable for God's purposes is spoken of as if the person were physically unclean. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# So why do you act like prostitutes, searching for disgusting things?
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Yahweh asks this question to rebuke the people. Alternate translation: "You should not act like prostitutes, searching for disgusting things." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# why do you act like prostitutes
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Yahweh speaks of the people being unfaithful to him as if they were acting like women who sleep with men to whom they are not married. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])
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