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equipped with oars
    made from oaks from Bashan,
with ivory-inlaid cypress wood[a] decking
    imported from the coastlands of Cypress,
with sails made with embroidered Egyptian linen,
    festooned with blue banners,
and with your sun shades made
    with purple cloth from Cypress.
Your sailors were conscripted
    from Sidon and Arvad,
and your officers served aboard
    as pilots.

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  1. Ezekiel 27:6 Lit. daughter of Assyria

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.