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Ezekiel · Chapter 24

Ezekiel 24:17

Sigh, but not aloud. Make no mourning for the dead. Bind your headdress on you, and put your sandals on your feet. Don’t cover your lips, and don’t eat mourner’s bread.”

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Before · Ezekiel 24:15–16

15Also the LORD’s word came to me, saying, 16“Son of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with one stroke; yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.

17Sigh, but not aloud. Make no mourning for the dead. Bind your headdress on you, and put your sandals on your feet. Don’t cover your lips, and don’t eat mourner’s bread.”

After · Ezekiel 24:18–19

18So I spoke to the people in the morning, and at evening my wife died. So I did in the morning as I was commanded. 19The people asked me, “Won’t you tell us what these things mean to us, that you act like this?”

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