3You shall also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in your skirts.


In Context

1 And you, son of man, take you a sharp knife, take you a barber's razor, and cause it to pass on your head and on your beard: then take you balances to weigh, and divide the hair.

2 You shall burn with fire a third part in the middle of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and you shall take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part you shall scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.

3 You shall also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in your skirts.

4 Then take of them again, and cast them into the middle of the fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.

5 Thus said the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the middle of the nations and countries that are round about her.

Ezekiel 5:3 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:3Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:3But take a few strands of hair and tuck them away in the folds of your garment.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:3And thou shalt take thereof a small number: and shalt bind them in the skirt of thy cloak.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:3And thou shalt take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:3And thou shalt take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:3And thou shalt take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:3Thou shalt also take of them a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:3You shall take of it a few in number, and bind them in your skirts.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:3And thou hast taken thence a few in number — and hast bound them in thy skirts;