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Put the pieces of meat into it, every good piece, thigh and shoulder. Fill it with the best cuts.[a] Take the best of the flock. Pile up the wood[b] under it. Boil it thoroughly, so that the pieces[c] in it are well cooked.

Therefore, this is what the Lord God says. Woe to the bloody city, a pot whose residue[d] is inside it, whose residue has not gone out of it!

Take out its cuts of meat piece by piece, without choosing one piece in preference to another.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 24:4 Literally the best bones
  2. Ezekiel 24:5 The Hebrew reads bones. Removing one letter from this word leaves the reading wood, which is followed by nearly all English translations. See verse 10.
  3. Ezekiel 24:5 The Hebrew reads bones.
  4. Ezekiel 24:6 The meaning of this word is uncertain. It refers to some sort of uncleanness, perhaps the carbonized waste that remains in an overheated pot.
  5. Ezekiel 24:6 The Hebrew reads no lot has fallen on it for the words without choosing one piece in preference to another.