Ezekiel 24:22

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.

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.

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.

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 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 Then this message came to me from the Lord : ¹⁶ "Son of man, with one blow I will take away your dearest treasure. Yet you must not show any sorrow at her death. Do not weep; let there be no tears. ¹⁷ Groan silently, but let there be no wailing at her grave. Do not uncover your head or take off your sandals. Do not perform the usual rituals of mourning or accept any food brought to you by consoling friends." ¹⁸ So I proclaimed this to the people the next morning, and in the evening my wife died. The next morning I did everything I had been told to do. ¹⁹ Then the people asked, "What does all this mean? What are you trying to tell us?" ²⁰ So I said to them, "A message came to me from the Lord , ²¹ and I was told to give this message to the people of Israel. This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will defile my Temple, the source of your security and pride, the place your heart delights in. Your sons and daughters whom you left behind in Judah will be slaughtered by the sword. ²² Then you will do as Ezekiel has done. You will not mourn in public or console yourselves by eating the food brought by friends. ²³ Your heads will remain covered, and your sandals will not be taken off. You will not mourn or weep, but you will waste away because of your sins. You will groan among yourselves for all the evil you have done. ²⁴ Ezekiel is an example for you; you will do just as he has done. And when that time comes, you will know that I am the Sovereign Lord ."

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
One day Abraham said to his oldest servant, the man in charge of his household, "Take an oath by putting your hand under my thigh.

Genesis 24:3
Swear by the Lord , the God of heaven and earth, that you will not allow my son to marry one of these local Canaanite women.

Genesis 24:9
So the servant took an oath by putting his hand under the thigh of his master, Abraham. He swore to follow Abraham's instructions.

Genesis 24:10
Then he loaded ten of Abraham's camels with all kinds of expensive gifts from his master, and he traveled to distant Aram-naharaim. There he went to the town where Abraham's brother Nahor had settled.

Genesis 24:11
He made the camels kneel beside a well just outside the town. It was evening, and the women were coming out to draw water.

Genesis 24:12
"O Lord , God of my master, Abraham," he prayed. "Please give me success today, and show unfailing love to my master, Abraham.

Genesis 24:15
Before he had finished praying, he saw a young woman named Rebekah coming out with her water jug on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel, who was the son of Abraham's brother Nahor and his wife, Milcah.

Genesis 24:16
Rebekah was very beautiful and old enough to be married, but she was still a virgin. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came up again.

Genesis 24:19
When she had given him a drink, she said, "I'll draw water for your camels, too, until they have had enough to drink."

Genesis 24:23
"Whose daughter are you?" he asked. "And please tell me, would your father have any room to put us up for the night?"

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.