Eze 5:1-4 | NASB1995 | STEP | “ As for you, son of man , take a sharp sword ; take and use it as a barber’s razor on your head and beard . Then take scales for weighing and divide the hair.

Ezekiel 5:1-4

1 “As for you, son of man, take a ^asharp sword; take and ^{▼▼ Lit make it pass over your head}use it as a barber’s razor on your head and beard. Then take ^cscales for weighing and divide ^{▼▼ Lit them}the hair. 2 “One third you shall burn in the fire at the center of the city, when the ^edays of the siege are completed. Then you shall take one third and strike it with the sword all around ^{▼▼ Lit it}the city, and one third you shall scatter to the wind; and I will ^gunsheathe a sword behind them. 3 “Take also a few in number from ^{▼▼ Lit there}them and bind them in the edges of your robes. 4 “Take again some of them and throw them into the fire and burn them in the fire; from it a fire will ^{▼▼ Lit go out}spread to all the house of Israel.