Ezekiel 5:3

Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

But you are to take a few strands of hair and secure them in the folds of your garment.

In context

1 “As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword, use it as a barber’s razor, and shave your head and beard. Then take a set of scales and divide the hair.

2 When the days of the siege have ended, you are to burn up a third of the hair inside the city; you are also to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind. For I will unleash a sword behind them.

3 But you are to take a few strands of hair and secure them in the folds of your garment.

4 Again, take a few of these, throw them into the fire, and burn them. From there a fire will spread to the whole house of Israel.

5 This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘This is Jerusalem, which I have set in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.

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Ezekiel 5:3 in every translation

BSB Berean Standard Bible: But you are to take a few strands of hair and secure them in the folds of your garment.
KJV King James Version: Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.
WEB World English Bible: You shall take a small number of these and bind them in the folds of your robe.
ASV American Standard Version: And thou shalt take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.
YLT Young's Literal Translation: And thou hast taken thence a few in number — and hast bound them in thy skirts;
DBY Darby Translation: And thou shalt take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts;
WBS Webster Bible: Thou shalt also take of them a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.