en_tn/ezk/20/30.md

General Information:

Yahweh continues giving Ezekiel his message to the house of Israel.

Why do you make yourselves unclean with the ways of your fathers?

Yahweh asks this question to rebuke the people. AT: "You should not make yourselves unclean by doing the things that your fathers did." (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion)

Why do you make yourselves unclean

A person who is not acceptable for God's purposes is spoken of as if the person were physically unclean. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)

So why do you act like prostitutes, searching for disgusting things?

Yahweh asks this question to rebuke the people. AT: "You should not act like prostitutes, searching for disgusting things." (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion)

why do you act like prostitutes

Yahweh speaks of the people being unfaithful to him as if they were acting like women who sleep with men to whom they are not married. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile)