the deportation of 597, we find here, where the text deals with the vision of a new temple, a reference back to the destruction of Jerusalem in which the old temple was lost. However the mention of the 30th year 1:1*, which is clarified in v 2* by a synchronism with the era of Jehoiachin, remains obscure.68 However the observation is more important that in the dates of the book of Ezekiel the first deportation under Jehoiachin represents the starting point for the reckoning of the years. In 33:21*