Ezr 6:11 | NET2full | STEP | “I hereby give orders that if anyone changes this directive a beam is to be pulled out from his house and he is to be raised up and impaled on it, and his house is to be reduced to a rubbish heap for this indiscretion.

‏ Ezra 6:11

11 “I hereby give orders that if anyone changes this directive a beam is to be pulled out from his house and he is to be raised up and impaled ^{▼▼sn The practice referred to in v. 11 has been understood in various ways: hanging (cf. 1 Esd 6:32 and KJV); flogging (cf. NEB, NLT); impalement (BDB 1091 s.v. זְקַף; HALOT 1914 s.v. מחא hitpe; cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV). The last seems the most likely.} on it, and his house is to be reduced ^{▼▼tn Aram “made.”} to a rubbish heap ^{▼▼tn Aram “a dunghill.”} for this indiscretion. ^{▼▼tn Aram “for this.”}