Eze 16:4 | NETfull | STEP | As for your birth, on the day you were born your umbilical cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water; you were certainly not rubbed down with salt, nor wrapped with blankets.

Ezekiel 16:4

4 As for your birth, on the day you were born your umbilical cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water; ^{▼▼ Heb “in water you were not washed for cleansing” or “with water you were not washed smooth” (see D. I. Block, Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:473, n. 57, for a discussion of possible meanings of this hapax legomenon).} you were certainly not rubbed down with salt, nor wrapped with blankets. ^{▼▼ Arab midwives still cut the umbilical cords of infants and then proceed to apply salt and oil to their bodies.}