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# Connecting Statement:
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Yahweh continues to tell Ezekiel what will happen to Gog.
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# seven months
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"7 months." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers]])
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# the house of Israel
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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](../03/01.md). Alternate translation: "the Israelites" or "the Israelite people group" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
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# will bury them in order to purify the land
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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/jit/figs-explicit]])
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# bury them
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"bury the soldiers of Gog's army"
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