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Son of man
"Son of a human being" or "Son of humanity." God calls Ezekiel this to emphasize that Ezekiel is only a human being. God is eternal and powerful, but humans are not. See how you translated this in Ezekiel 2:1. Alternate translation: "Mortal person" or "Human"
the house of Israel
Here "house" represents people. Alternate translation: "the people of Israel" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy)
with their ways and their deeds
"by the way they lived and the things they did"
Their ways were like the unclean menstruation of a woman before me
This compares how the people behaved to a woman's unclean menstruation rags. This emphasizes how disgusting their behaviors were to Yahweh. Alternate translation: "Their ways were as disgusting to me as the unclean menstruation of a woman" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-simile)
menstruation of a woman
the time every month when a woman bleeds from her womb