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And then,[a] if anyone prophesies again, his father and his mother who bore him will say to him, “You shall not live, because you have spoken a lie in the name of Yahweh!” And his father and his mother who bore him will pierce him through when he prophesies. And then[b] on that day, each of the prophets will be ashamed because of his vision when he was prophesying, and they will not put on a cloak of hair in order to deceive, but he will say, “I am not a prophet; I am a tiller of the soil, for a man has acquired me since my youth.”[c]

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  1. Zechariah 13:3 Literally “And it will happen”
  2. Zechariah 13:4 Literally “And it will happen”
  3. Zechariah 13:5 Other translations read “for the land has been my possession since my youth”

And if anyone still prophesies, their father and mother, to whom they were born, will say to them, ‘You must die, because you have told lies(A) in the Lord’s name.’ Then their own parents will stab the one who prophesies.(B)

“On that day every prophet will be ashamed(C) of their prophetic vision. They will not put on a prophet’s garment(D) of hair(E) in order to deceive.(F) Each will say, ‘I am not a prophet. I am a farmer; the land has been my livelihood since my youth.[a](G)

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  1. Zechariah 13:5 Or farmer; a man sold me in my youth