Eze 36:17-18 | TNotes | STEP | 36:17 Covenant curses had come to Israel because God’s people had defiled ... their own land by their sinful behavior. • A menstrual cloth became polluted by contact with a woman’s monthly flow of blood. This natural process was not sinful, but it was defiling in the same way that any loss of bodily life-fluids such as blood, sweat (see study note on 44:17-19), or semen made people ceremonially unclean (see Lev 15 ).

bLev 15►

dDeut 29:22-28►

‏ Ezekiel 36:17-18

36:17 ^a Covenant curses had come to Israel because God’s people had defiled ... their own land by their sinful behavior.

• A menstrual cloth became polluted by contact with a woman’s monthly flow of blood. This natural process was not sinful, but it was defiling in the same way that any loss of bodily life-fluids such as blood, sweat (see study note on 44:17-19), or semen made people ceremonially unclean (see Lev 15 ^b).
36:18 ^c Israel had made the land unfit for God’s presence through murder and the worship of idols. As a result of their covenant breaking, they were expelled from the land and scattered among the nations (see Deut 29:22-28 ^d).