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New Living Translation

Ezekiel 5:3

Keep just a bit of the hair and tie it up in your robe.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Backsliders;   Dress;   Ezekiel;   Prophecy;   Symbols and Similitudes;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Prophets;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Prophecy, prophet;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Beyond the River;   Ezekiel;   Gestures;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Famine;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Beard;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But you are to take a few strands from the hair and secure them in the folds of your robe.
Hebrew Names Version
You shall take of it a few in number, and bind them in your skirts.
King James Version
Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.
English Standard Version
And you shall take from these a small number and bind them in the skirts of your robe.
New American Standard Bible
"Take also a few hairs in number from them and bind them in the hems of your robes.
New Century Version
Also take a few of these hairs and tie them in the folds of your clothes.
Amplified Bible
"Also take some of them and bind them in the edges of your robes.
World English Bible
You shall take of it a few in number, and bind them in your skirts.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou shalt also take thereof a fewe in nomber, and binde them in thy lappe.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Take also a few in number from them and bind them in the edges of your robes.
Legacy Standard Bible
You shall also take a few in number from them and bind them in the edges of your robes.
Berean Standard Bible
But you are to take a few strands of hair and secure them in the folds of your garment.
Contemporary English Version
Keep a few of the hairs and wrap them in the hem of your clothes.
Complete Jewish Bible
Also take a few hairs and tie them up in the folds of your garment.
Darby Translation
And thou shalt take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts;
Easy-to-Read Version
But then you must get a few of those hairs and wrap them up in your robe.
George Lamsa Translation
And you shall take from thence a few of the hairs and bind them in the skirt of your cloak.
Good News Translation
Keep back a few hairs and wrap them in the hem of your clothes.
Lexham English Bible
And you must take from these a few in number, and you must tuck them in your hem.
Literal Translation
Also you shall take from there a few in number and bind them in your skirts.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yet afterwarde take a litle off the same, & bynde it in they cote lappe.
American Standard Version
And thou shalt take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.
Bible in Basic English
And take from them a small number of hairs, folding them in your skirts.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou shalt also take thereof a few by number, and bind them in thy skirts.
King James Version (1611)
Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou shalt also take therof a fewe in number, and bynde them in thy lappe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And thou shalt take thence a few in number, and shalt wrap them in the fold of thy garment.
English Revised Version
And thou shalt take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thou schalt take therof a litil noumbre, and thou schalt bynde tho in the hiynesse of thi mentil.
Update Bible Version
And you shall take thereof a few in number, and bind them in your skirts.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt also take of them a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.
New English Translation
But take a few strands of hair from those and tie them in the ends of your garment.
New King James Version
You shall also take a small number of them and bind them in the edge of your garment.
New Life Bible
Take a small number of the hairs and tie them in the cloth of your coat.
New Revised Standard
Then you shall take from these a small number, and bind them in the skirts of your robe.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and thou shalt take from thence, a few in number, - and shalt bind them in thy skirts;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt take thereof a small number: and shalt bind them in the skirt of thy cloak.
Revised Standard Version
And you shall take from these a small number, and bind them in the skirts of your robe.
Young's Literal Translation
And thou hast taken thence a few in number -- and hast bound them in thy skirts;
THE MESSAGE
"Retrieve a few of the hairs and slip them into your pocket. Take some of them and throw them into the fire—burn them up. From them, fire will spread to the whole family of Israel.

Contextual Overview

1 "Son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a razor to shave your head and beard. Use a scale to weigh the hair into three equal parts. 2 Place a third of it at the center of your map of Jerusalem. After acting out the siege, burn it there. Scatter another third across your map and chop it with a sword. Scatter the last third to the wind, for I will scatter my people with the sword. 3 Keep just a bit of the hair and tie it up in your robe. 4 Then take some of these hairs out and throw them into the fire, burning them up. A fire will then spread from this remnant and destroy all of Israel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a few: 2 Kings 25:12, Jeremiah 39:10, Jeremiah 40:6, Jeremiah 52:16, Matthew 7:14, Luke 13:23, Luke 13:24, 1 Peter 4:18

skirts: Heb. wings

Reciprocal: Isaiah 24:6 - and few Jeremiah 40:11 - all the Jews Jeremiah 42:2 - left Jeremiah 42:22 - know Ezekiel 33:24 - they that

Cross-References

Genesis 4:25
Adam had sexual relations with his wife again, and she gave birth to another son. She named him Seth, for she said, "God has granted me another son in place of Abel, whom Cain killed."
Genesis 5:2
He created them male and female, and he blessed them and called them "human."
Genesis 5:3
When Adam was 130 years old, he became the father of a son who was just like him—in his very image. He named his son Seth.
Genesis 5:14
Kenan lived 910 years, and then he died.
Genesis 5:16
After the birth of Jared, Mahalalel lived another 830 years, and he had other sons and daughters.
Job 14:4
Who can bring purity out of an impure person? No one!
Job 25:4
How can a mortal be innocent before God? Can anyone born of a woman be pure?
Psalms 51:5
For I was born a sinner— yes, from the moment my mother conceived me.
Luke 1:35
The angel replied, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the baby to be born will be holy, and he will be called the Son of God.
John 3:6
Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou shall also take thereof a few in number,.... These are they that were left in the land of Judea by Nebuzaradan, for vinedressers and husbandmen, and such as returned out of Egypt into the land of Judah, Jeremiah 44:28;

and bind them in thy skirts; in the pockets of them; signifying both the very small number of them, and their preservation. Jarchi and Kimchi interpret these of those that were carried captive to Babylon, and lived there, and were preserved, and returned again.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Of the third part a few are yet to be taken and kept in the fold of the garment (representing those still to remain in their native land), and yet even of those few some are to be cast into the fire. Such was the fate of those left behind after the destruction of Jerusalem Jeremiah 40:0; Jeremiah 41:0. The whole prophecy is one of denunciation.

Ezekiel 5:4

Thereof - Or, from thence, out of the midst of the fire. Omit “For.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 5:3. Ezekiel 5:1.


 
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