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and he said to me, “Son of man,[a] you must give your stomach this to eat, and you must fill your belly with this scroll that I am giving to you.” And I ate, and it became like sweet honey[b] in my mouth. And he said to me, “Son of man,[c] come! Go to the house of Israel, and you must speak to them with my words. For you are sent to the house of Israel, not to a people of obscure speech[d] and of a difficult language,[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 3:3 Or “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
  2. Ezekiel 3:3 Literally “like honey for sweetness”
  3. Ezekiel 3:4 Or “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
  4. Ezekiel 3:5 Literally “obscure of lip”
  5. Ezekiel 3:5 Literally “heavy/thick of tongue”

Then he said to me, “Son of man, eat this scroll I am giving you and fill your stomach with it.” So I ate(A) it, and it tasted as sweet as honey(B) in my mouth.

He then said to me: “Son of man, go now to the people of Israel and speak my words to them.(C) You are not being sent to a people of obscure speech and strange language,(D) but to the people of Israel—

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