Ezekiel 24:22

New American Standard Bible (1995)

'You will do as I have done; you will not cover your mustache and you will not eat the bread of men.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then you will do just as I have done: You will not cover your mustache or eat the bread of mourners.

Hebrew Names Version
You shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.

King James Version
And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.

English Standard Version
And you shall do as I have done; you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.

New American Standard Bible
'And you will do just as I have done; you will not cover your mustache, and you will not eat the bread of other people.

New Century Version
When that happens, you are to act as I have: you are not to cover your face, and you are not to eat the food people eat when they are sad about a death.

Amplified Bible
'You will do as I [Ezekiel] have done; you shall not cover your mustache nor eat the bread of [mourning brought to you by other] men.

World English Bible
You shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And ye shall doe as I haue done: ye shall not couer your lippes, neither shall ye eate the bread of men.

Legacy Standard Bible
And you will do as I have done; you will not cover your mustache, and you will not eat the bread of men.

Berean Standard Bible
Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lips or eat the bread of mourners.

Contemporary English Version
Then you will do the same things I have done. You will leave your face uncovered and refuse to eat the food that mourners usually eat.

Complete Jewish Bible
But you are to do as I have done — not cover your upper lips, not eat the food people prepare for mourners,

Darby Translation
And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover the beard, neither eat the bread of men;

Easy-to-Read Version
But you will do the same things that I have done about my dead wife. You will not cover your mustache or eat the food people normally eat when someone dies.

George Lamsa Translation
And you shall do as I have done; you shall not cover your lips nor shall you eat the bread provided for mourners.

Good News Translation
Then you will do what I have done. You will not cover your faces or eat the food that mourners eat.

Lexham English Bible
and you shall do just as I did: You shall not cover your upper lip, and you shall not eat the bread of mourners.

Literal Translation
And you shall do as I have done. You shall not cover over the mustache, and you shall not eat the bread of men.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Like as I haue done, so shall ye do also: Ye shal not hyde youre faces, ye shal eate no mourners bred:

American Standard Version
And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.

Bible in Basic English
And you will do as I have done, not covering your lips or taking the food of those in grief.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your upper lips, nor eat the bread of men;

King James Version (1611)
And yee shall doe as I haue done: yee shall not couer your lips, nor eate the bread of men.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Like as I haue done, so shall ye do also: ye shall not couer your lippes, ye shall eate no mans bread.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not be comforted at their mouth, and ye shall not eat the bread of men.

English Revised Version
And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And ye schulen do, as Y dide; ye schulen not hile mouthis with cloth, and ye schulen not ete the mete of weileris.

Update Bible Version
And you shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.

Webster's Bible Translation
And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover [your] lips, nor eat the bread of men.

New English Translation
Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lip or eat food brought by others.

New King James Version
And you shall do as I have done; you shall not cover your lips nor eat man's bread of sorrow.

New Living Translation
Then you will do as Ezekiel has done. You will not mourn in public or console yourselves by eating the food brought by friends.

New Life Bible
Then you will do as I have done. You will not cover your face or eat the bread of those in sorrow.

New Revised Standard
And you shall do as I have done; you shall not cover your upper lip or eat the bread of mourners.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then shall ye do, as I have done. - The heard, shall ye not cover, And the bread of other men:, shall ye not eat;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And you shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your faces, nor shall you eat the meat of mourners.

Revised Standard Version
And you shall do as I have done; you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of mourners.

Young's Literal Translation
And ye have done as I have done, On the upper lip ye are not covered, And bread of men ye do not eat.

THE MESSAGE
"‘Then you'll do exactly as I've done. You'll perform none of the usual funeral rituals. You'll get dressed as usual and go about your work. No tears. But your sins will eat away at you from within and you'll groan among yourselves. Ezekiel will be your example. The way he did it is the way you'll do it. "‘When this happens you'll recognize that I am God , the Master.'"

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ And the word of the LORD came to me saying, ¹⁶ "Son of man, behold, I am about to take from you the desire of your eyes with a blow; but you shall not mourn and you shall not weep, and your tears shall not come. ¹⁷ "Groan silently; make no mourning for the dead. Bind on your turban and put your shoes on your feet, and do not cover your mustache and do not eat the bread of men." ¹⁸ So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. And in the morning I did as I was commanded. ¹⁹ The people said to me, "Will you not tell us what these things that you are doing mean for us?" ²⁰ Then I said to them, "The word of the LORD came to me saying, ²¹ 'Speak to the house of Israel, "Thus says the Lord GOD, 'Behold, I am about to profane My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes and the delight of your soul; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword. ²² 'You will do as I have done; you will not cover your mustache and you will not eat the bread of men.²³ 'Your turbans will be on your heads and your shoes on your feet. You will not mourn and you will not weep, but you will rot away in your iniquities and you will groan to one another. ²⁴ 'Thus Ezekiel will be a sign to you; according to all that he has done you will do; when it comes, then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.'"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ezekiel 24:16, Ezekiel 24:17, Job 27:15, Psalms 78:64, Jeremiah 16:4-7, Jeremiah 47:3, Amos 6:9, Amos 6:10

Reciprocal: Leviticus 13:45 - put 2 Samuel 3:35 - cause Isaiah 30:20 - the bread Daniel 11:31 - they shall pollute Hosea 9:4 - as Micah 3:7 - cover

Cross-References

Genesis 24:2
Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household, who had charge of all that he owned, "Please place your hand under my thigh,

Genesis 24:3
and I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live,

Genesis 24:9
So the servant placed his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.

Genesis 24:10
Then the servant took ten camels from the camels of his master, and set out with a variety of good things of his master's in his hand; and he arose and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.

Genesis 24:11
He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at evening time, the time when women go out to draw water.

Genesis 24:12
He said, "O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today, and show lovingkindness to my master Abraham.

Genesis 24:15
Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham's brother Nahor, came out with her jar on her shoulder.

Genesis 24:16
The girl was very beautiful, a virgin, and no man had had relations with her; and she went down to the spring and filled her jar and came up.

Genesis 24:19
Now when she had finished giving him a drink, she said, "I will draw also for your camels until they have finished drinking."

Genesis 24:23
and said, "Whose daughter are you? Please tell me, is there room for us to lodge in your father's house?"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And ye shall do as I have done,.... When his wife died, and as he was ordered by the Lord; the meaning of Which they were now inquiring:

ye shall not cover your lips; as a token of mourning; nor use any other of their country rites and ceremonies, for fear of provoking their enemies, in whose hands they shall be:

nor eat the bread of men; or "of mourners", as the Targum; there shall be none to comfort them, or send bread to them; they shall all be alike mourners.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The death of Ezekiel’s wife took place in the evening of the same day that he delivered the foregoing prophecy. This event was to signify to the people that the Lord would take from them all that was most dear to them; and - owing to the extraordinary nature of the times - quiet lamentation for the dead, according to the usual forms of mourning, would be impossible.

Ezekiel 24:17

The priest in general was to mourn for his dead (Leviticus 21:1 ff); but Ezekiel was to be an exception to the rule. The “tire” was the priest’s mitre.

Eat not the bread of men - Food supplied for the comfort of the mourners.

Ezekiel 24:23

Pine away - Compare Leviticus 26:39. The outward signs of grief were a certain consolation. Their absence would indicate a heart-consuming sorrow.

Ezekiel 24:27

Ezekiel had been employed four years in foretelling the calamities about to come to pass. He had been utterly disregarded by the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and received with apparent respect but with real incredulity by those in exile. Now until the city had been actually taken, the voice of prophecy should cease, so far as God’s people were concerned. Hence the intervening series of predictions relating to neighboring and foreign nations Ezek. 25–32. After which the prophet’s voice was again heard addressing his countrymen in their exile. This accounts for the apparently parenthetical character of the next eight chapters.