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“And you, son of man,[a] take for yourself[b] a sword, sharp as a barber’s razor.[c] Take it for yourself, and you must cause it to pass over your head and over your beard, and you must take for yourself a set of scales for weighing, and you must divide them.[d] A third you must burn with fire in the midst[e] of the city at the completion[f] of the days of the siege, and you must take a third, and you must strike it with the sword around it, and a third you must scatter to the wind, and I will draw a sword behind them.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 5:1 Or “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
  2. Ezekiel 5:1 Hebrew “you”
  3. Ezekiel 5:1 Literally “the razor of the barbers”
  4. Ezekiel 5:1 That is, the hairs
  5. Ezekiel 5:2 Or “middle”
  6. Ezekiel 5:2 Literally “the completing”