page_title: Ezekiel 2
section_title: Textual witnesses
hierarchical_section_title: Ezekiel 2 / Text / Textual witnesses
caption_attribution_description: English: page with text of Ezk 1:28-2:6
context_page_description: Ezekiel 2 is the second chapter of the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet/priest Ezekiel and is one of the Book of the Prophets. In this chapter, set within a wider section from Ezekiel 1:28b to Ezekiel 3:15, "Ezekiel receives a commission [from God] to go to the 'rebellious house' of Israel" and to speak for God.
context_section_description: Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text, which includes the Codex Cairensis (895), the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets (916), Aleppo Codex (10th century), Codex Leningradensis (1008).
  There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BC. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus (B; ᴮ; 4th century), Codex Alexandrinus (A; ᴬ; 5th century) and Codex Marchalianus (Q; Q; 6th century).
caption: A page containing Ezekiel 1:28-2:6 in Codex Marchalianus (from 6th century CE).
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