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.