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They made your oars of oak from Bashan.
    Your planks were made of pine,[a] inlaid with ivory,
        from the coasts of Cyprus.[b]
Your sail was brightly decorated linen from Egypt,
    which also served as your banner.
    Your awning was blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah.
Inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad served as your rowers.
    Tyre, your own skilled men, who were with you,
        manned your sails.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 27:6 The translation pine follows a different word division than that which occurs in the main Hebrew text, which has the reading daughter of Assyria.
  2. Ezekiel 27:6 The Hebrew reads Kittim. This term may include locations other than Cyprus.

Of oaks(A) from Bashan
    they made your oars;
of cypress wood[a] from the coasts of Cyprus(B)
    they made your deck, adorned with ivory.
Fine embroidered linen(C) from Egypt was your sail
    and served as your banner;
your awnings were of blue and purple(D)
    from the coasts of Elishah.(E)
Men of Sidon and Arvad(F) were your oarsmen;
    your skilled men, Tyre, were aboard as your sailors.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 27:6 Targum; the Masoretic Text has a different division of the consonants.