At that time, there will be an altar {\cf2\super [193]} for the Lord in the middle of Egypt. At the border of Egypt there will be a monument to show honor to the Lord.
On the fifth day of the tenth month (January) in the twelfth year \{of exile\}, {\cf2\super [269]} a person came to me from Jerusalem. He had escaped from the battle there. He said, “The city (Jerusalem) has been taken!”
In the twenty-fifth year after we were taken away into captivity, at the beginning of the year (October), on the tenth day of the month {\cf2\super [306]} the Lord’s power came on me. This was fourteen years after the Babylonians took Jerusalem. On that day, the Lord took me there \{in a vision\}.
One day I (Ezekiel) was sitting in my house, and the elders (leaders) of Judah were sitting there in front of me. This was on the fifth day of the sixth month (September) of the sixth year \{of exile\}. {\cf2\super [58]} Suddenly, the power of the Lord my Master came on me.