New American Standard Bible 1995

Ezekiel 5:1-4

1“As for you, son of man, take a 1sharp sword; take and 2use it as a barber’s razor on your head and beard. Then take 3scales for weighing and divide 4the hair. 2One third you shall burn in the fire at the center of the city, when the 5days of the siege are completed. Then you shall take one third and strike it with the sword all around 6the city, and one third you shall scatter to the wind; and I will 7unsheathe a sword behind them. 3Take also a few in number from 8them and bind them in the edges of your robes. 4Take again some of them and throw them into the fire and burn them in the fire; from it a fire will 9spread to all the house of Israel.

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Notes

1. Ezekiel 5:1 Lev 21:5; Is 7:20; Ezek 44:20 ↩
2. Ezekiel 5:1 Lit make it pass over your head ↩
3. Ezekiel 5:1 Dan 5:27 ↩
4. Ezekiel 5:1 Lit them ↩
5. Ezekiel 5:2 Jer 39:1, 2; Ezek 4:2-8 ↩
6. Ezekiel 5:2 Lit it ↩
7. Ezekiel 5:2 Lev 26:33 ↩
8. Ezekiel 5:3 Lit there ↩
9. Ezekiel 5:4 Lit go out ↩

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