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# twenty-fifth ... tenth ... fourteenth
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These words are the ordinal forms of 25, 10, and 14. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-ordinal]])
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# of our captivity
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Here "our" refers to Ezekiel and the Israelites who have been in Babylon since the Babylonians forced King Jehoiachin to leave Jerusalem, but not to the reader. Alternate translation: "after we became captives" or "after the Babylonians took us as captives to Babylon" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-exclusive]])
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# the beginning of the year on the tenth day of the month
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This is the first month of the Hebrew calendar. The tenth day is in April on Western calendars. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-hebrewmonths]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-ordinal]])
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# the city was captured
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This can be translated in active form. Alternate translation: "the Babylonians captured the city of Jerusalem" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]])
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# the hand of Yahweh
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Here "hand" refers to Yahweh's power to show Ezekiel supernatural visions. See how you translated this in [Ezekiel 1:3](../01/03.md).
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