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40 “For on my holy mountain,[a] on the mountain of the height of Israel,” declares[b] the Lord Yahweh, “there all of the house of Israel will serve me, all of them,[c] in the land. I will take pleasure in them, and there I will accept your contributions and the best of your portions with all of your holy objects. 41 I will accept you as a fragrant incense offering[d] when I bring you out from the peoples and I gather you from the lands to which you were scattered, and I will show myself holy among you before the eyes of the nations. 42 And you will know that I am Yahweh when I bring you to the land of Israel, to the land that I swore[e] to give to your ancestors.

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  1. Ezekiel 20:40 Literally “the mountain of my holiness”
  2. Ezekiel 20:40 Literally “declaration of”
  3. Ezekiel 20:40 Hebrew “it/him”
  4. Ezekiel 20:41 Literally “a fragrance of an incense offering”
  5. Ezekiel 20:42 Literally “I raised my hand”

40 For on my holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel,(A) declares the Sovereign Lord, there in the land all the people of Israel will serve me, and there I will accept them. There I will require your offerings(B) and your choice gifts,[a] along with all your holy sacrifices.(C) 41 I will accept you as fragrant incense(D) when I bring you out from the nations and gather(E) you from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will be proved holy(F) through you in the sight of the nations.(G) 42 Then you will know that I am the Lord,(H) when I bring you into the land of Israel,(I) the land I had sworn with uplifted hand to give to your ancestors.(J)

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  1. Ezekiel 20:40 Or and the gifts of your firstfruits