Ezekiel 5:3
World English Bible (WEB)
You shall take a small number of these and bind them in the folds of your robe.
In context
1 “You, son of man, take a sharp sword. You shall take it as a barber’s razor to yourself, and shall cause it to pass over your head and over your beard. Then take balances to weigh and divide the hair.
2 A third part you shall burn in the fire in the middle of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled. You shall take a third part, and strike with the sword around it. A third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.
3 You shall take a small number of these and bind them in the folds of your robe.
4 Of these again you shall take, and cast them into the middle of the fire, and burn them in the fire. From it a fire will come out into all the house of Israel.
5 “The Lord GOD says: ‘This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the middle of the nations, and countries are around her.
Ezekiel 5:3 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- You shall take a small number of these and bind them in the folds of your robe.
- KJV King James Version
- Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- But you are to take a few strands of hair and secure them in the folds of your garment.
- 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.