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# Son of man
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"Son of a human being" or "Son of humanity." God calls Ezekiel this to emphasize that Ezekiel is only a human being. God is eternal and powerful, but humans are not. See how you translated this in [Ezekiel 2:1](../02/01.md). AT: "Mortal person" or "Human"
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# the house of Israel
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Here "house" represents people. AT: "the people of Israel" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# with their ways and their deeds
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"by the way they lived and the things they did"
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# Their ways were like the unclean menstruation of a woman before me
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This compares how the people behaved to a woman's unclean menstruation rags. This emphasizes how disgusting their behaviors were to Yahweh. AT: "Their ways were as disgusting to me as the unclean menstruation of a woman" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])
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# menstruation of a woman
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the blood that comes out of a woman every month when she is not pregnant
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