Son of Man, thus says the Lord God: Speak to the birds of every sort and to all the beasts of the field, 'Assemble and come, gather from all around to the sacrifice that Ezekiel will make for you, a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, and you will eat flesh and drink blood'—shifting the imagery from human burial to a sacrificial feast. The animals are summoned as if to a cultic sacrifice, a radical reimagining of the bodies of Gog's forces as sacrificial offerings. The language of eating flesh and drinking blood invokes covenant sacrifice language and suggests that the defeat of Gog is a sacrificial act that consecrates the land. The gathering of animals 'from all around' parallels the gathering of invading forces and suggests the reversal of the invasion in a counter-assembly. This verse employs sacrifice language to conceptualize the defeat of Gog as a sacral event that cleanses and consecrates the land.

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