## Rashi on Ezekiel Chapter 9

###### Rashi on Ezekiel 9:1:1
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**קָרְבוּ פְקֻדּוֹת הָעִיר.** הַקְרִיבוּ אֶת הַפְּקוּדִים אֲשֶׁר הִפְקַדְתִּי לְשַׁחֵת אֶת הָעִיר:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Bring near those appointed over the city** Bring near the appointees whom I appointed to destroy the city.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 9:2:1
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**שִׁשָּׁה אֲנָשִׁים.** רַבּוֹתֵינוּ פֵּרְשׁוּם בְּמַסֶּכֶת שַׁבָּת (נה.): קֶצֶף, אַף, וְחֵמָה, מַשְׁחִית, מְשַׁבֵּר, מְכַלֶּה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**six men** Our Rabbis explained them in Tractate Shabbath (55a) as Anger, Wrath, Fury, Destroyer, Breaker, Annihilator.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 9:2:2
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**מַפָּצוֹ.** שֶׁהוּא מְשַׁבֵּר אֶת הַכֹּל, כְּמוֹ ״וְנִפֵּץ אֶת עֹלָלַיִךְ״ (תהלים קלז:ט):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**his sledgehammer** Heb. כְּלִי מַפַּצוֹ, which smashes everything, as in (Ps. 137: 9): “and dash (וְנִפֵּץ) your infants.”


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 9:2:3
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**וְקֶסֶת הַסּוֹפֵר.** פִּנְקָס; הֵם לוּחוֹת שֶׁמְּחֻפִּין בְּשַׁעֲוָה, וְחוֹרְתִין בָּם בְּעֵט:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**with a scribe’s tablet** [Synonymous with] פִּנְקַס. These are wax- covered tablets upon which they engrave with a stylus.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 9:2:4
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**אֵצֶל מִזְבַּח הַנְּחֹשֶׁת.** הוּא מִזְבַּח אֲבָנִים שֶׁעָשָׂה שְׁלֹמֹה (מלכים א ח:סד; ט:כה) תַּחַת מִזְבַּח הַנְּחֹשֶׁת שֶׁעָשָׂה מֹשֶׁה בַּמִּדְבָּר (שמות לח:א-ב):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**beside the copper altar** This was the stone altar erected by Solomon instead of the copper altar that Moses had made in the desert.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 9:3:1
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**מֵעַל הַכְּרוּב.** מֵעַל הַכַּפֹּרֶת, שֶׁהַשְּׁכִינָה הָיְתָה שׁוֹרָה שָׁם עַד הֵנָּה, וְהִתְחִילָה לְהִסְתַּלֵּק וְלָצֵאת לַחוּץ מְעַט מְעַט, עֶשֶׂר מַסָּעוֹת (ראש השנה לא.), וְזֶה מַסָּע הָרִאשׁוֹן(עיין עמוס ט פסוק א ברש״י וצריך עיון יוש״ה): מִן הַכְּרוּב לְ**מִפְתַּן** בֵּית קָדְשֵׁי הַקֳּדָשִׁים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**from upon the cherub** which was on the Ark cover, for the Shechinah had been resting there until then, and it began to withdraw and to go outside little by little in ten steps, and this is the first stepfrom the cherub to the threshold of the Holy of Holies.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 9:4:1
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**וְהִתְוִיתָ תָּו.** וְרָשַׁמְתָּ רֹשֶׁם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and you shall mark a sign** You shall mark a sign.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 9:4:2
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**עַל מִצְחוֹת הָאֲנָשִׁים.** הַצַּדִּיקִים, כְּדֵי לִהְיוֹת לְאוֹת שֶׁלֹּא יִפְגְּעוּ בָם הַמַּשְׁחִיתִים (להלן ו):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**on the foreheads of the [righteous] men** in order to be for a sign that the destroyers should not strike them.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 9:5:1
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**וְלָאֵלֶּה אָמַר בְּאָזְנַי.** לְשֵׁשֶׁת הַמְּחַבְּלִים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**And to these, He said in my ears** To these six destroyers.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 9:6:1
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**וּמִמִּקְדָּשִׁי תָּחֵלּוּ.** מִן הָעוֹמְדִים לִפְנֵי מִקְדָּשִׁי; וְרַבּוֹתֵינוּ אָמְרוּ: אַל תִּקְרֵי **מִמִּקְדָּשִׁי** אֶלָּא ׳מִמְּקֻדָּשַׁי׳, מִן הַמְקֻדָּשִׁים לִי, הֵם אוֹתָם חֲקוּקֵי הַתָּו שֶׁהִתְרָה בָּהֶם מִלְּהַזִּיקָם, חָזַר וְצִוָּה לְחַבְּלָם, לְפִי שֶׁאָמְרָה מִדַּת הַדִּין לְפָנָיו: מַה נִּשְׁתַּנּוּ אֵלּוּ מֵאֵלּוּ, הֲרֵי לֹא מִחוּ בָהֶם; כִּדְאִיתָא בְּמַסֶּכֶת שַׁבָּת (נה.):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and you shall commence from My sanctuary** From those standing before My sanctuary. Our Rabbis said: Do not read וּמִמִִִּקְדָשִּׁי, and from My sanctuary, but וּמִמְּקֻדָשַּׁי, and from My sanctified ones, from those sanctified to Me. They are the ones marked with the sign, whom He had warned [them] not to hurt. [Now] He reneged and commanded [the angels] to destroy [even] them because the Divine standard of justice contended before Him, “Why are these different from those? Is it not so that they did not protest?” As is stated in Tractate Shabbath (55a).


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 9:8:1
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**וְנֵאשֲׁאַר אֲנִי.** וְנִשְׁאַרְתִּי אֲנִי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**that I remained** Heb. וְנֵאשֲּׁאַר, and I remained.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 9:9:1
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**מָלְאָה מֻטֶּה.** דִּין מְעֻקָּל (חבקוק א:ד):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**full of perversion** Crooked judgments.