Eze 36:25 | TNotes | STEP | 36:25 It was not enough to bring Israel back to the land; they would also become a new, transformed Israel. God would sprinkle them with clean water to cleanse them from all of the impurities that had defiled the land. Such sprinkling with water was a routine part of Jewish purification ceremonies (see Num 19 ); it symbolized a fresh start, with their old sins washed away.

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‏ Ezekiel 36:25

36:25 ^a It was not enough to bring Israel back to the land; they would also become a new, transformed Israel. God would sprinkle them with clean water to cleanse them from all of the impurities that had defiled the land. Such sprinkling with water was a routine part of Jewish purification ceremonies (see Num 19 ^b); it symbolized a fresh start, with their old sins washed away.