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Ezekiel 24:17

World English Bible

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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Ezekiel 24:17 in other translations

Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for the dead; bind thy headtire upon thee, and put thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.

Ezekiel 24:17 · American Standard Version

Ezekiel 24:17 in context

  1. 15Also Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
  2. 16“Son of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.
  3. 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.”
  4. 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.
  5. 19The people asked me, “Won’t you tell us what these things are to us, that you do so?”