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Ezekiel 5:1-4
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Ezekiel Shaves with a Sword

5 “Now as for you, Son of Man, you are to go find a sharp sword and use it like a barber’s razor. You are to cut your hair and beard. Then you are to take a weighing scale and divide your shaved hair into three parts.[a] 2 You are to burn a third of it in the middle of the city when you’ve finished your siege. Next, you are to take another third of it and beat it with your sword. Last, you are to scatter the remaining third to the wind, after which I’ll unsheathe my sword and pursue them. 3 You are to preserve a few strands of hair and hide them in the folds[b] of your garment. 4 Then you are to take a few strands, throw them in the fire, and incinerate them. A fire will proceed to the house of Israel from there.”

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  1. Ezekiel 5:1 The Heb. lacks your shaved hair into three parts
  2. Ezekiel 5:3 Lit. wings
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Ezekiel 5:1-4
Lexham English Bible

5 “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] 2 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. 3 And you must take from these a few in number, and you must tuck them in your hem. 4 And from them again you shall take some, and you must throw them in the middle of the fire, and you must burn them with fire; from it a fire will go out to all of the house of Israel.

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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”
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