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Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Return,[a] and turn away from your idols and from all of your detestable things! Turn away your faces!”’ For each person[b] from the house of Israel, and from the alien who dwells as an alien in Israel, who separates himself from following me[c] and brings up his idols into his heart and places before himself[d] a stumbling block of his guilt[e], and yet he comes to the prophet to consult him concerning me, I Yahweh will answer[f] him myself. And I will set my face against that person, and I will make him to[g] be a sign and make him into[h] the subject of proverbs; and I will cut him off from the midst of my people, and you will know I am Yahweh. And the prophet, if he is deceived and he speaks a word, I Yahweh, I have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him, and I will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. 10 And they will bear their guilt, like[i] the guilt of the inquirer so[j] the guilt of the prophet will be, 11 so that the house of Israel will not go astray again from me,[k] and they will not make themselves unclean again with all of their transgressions, and they will be for me a people, and I will be for them as God,” declares[l] the Lord Yahweh.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 14:6 Or “Repent”
  2. Ezekiel 14:7 Literally “a man, a man” or “each one, each one”
  3. Ezekiel 14:7 Literally “from behind me”
  4. Ezekiel 14:7 Literally “he puts beside his face”
  5. Ezekiel 14:7 Or “iniquity”
  6. Ezekiel 14:7 Or “am answering”
  7. Ezekiel 14:8 Or “as”
  8. Ezekiel 14:8 Hebrew “to”
  9. Ezekiel 14:10 Or “as”
  10. Ezekiel 14:10 Or “like”
  11. Ezekiel 14:11 Literally “from behind me”
  12. Ezekiel 14:11 Literally “declaration of”

“Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Repent, turn away from your idols, and (A)turn your faces away from all your abominations. For anyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell in Israel, who separates himself from Me and sets up his idols in his heart and puts before him what causes him to stumble into iniquity, then comes to a prophet to inquire of him concerning Me, I the Lord will answer him by Myself. (B)I will set My face against that man and make him a (C)sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of My people. (D)Then you shall know that I am the Lord.

“And if the prophet is induced to speak anything, I the Lord (E)have induced that prophet, and I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from among My people Israel. 10 And they shall bear their iniquity; the punishment of the prophet shall be the same as the punishment of the one who inquired, 11 that the house of Israel may (F)no longer stray from Me, nor be profaned anymore with all their transgressions, (G)but that they may be My people and I may be their God,” says the Lord God.’ ”

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