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Ezekiel 12:5

3 Therefore, son of man, pack your bags for exile. In broad daylight, set out from your place and go to another as they watch. Perhaps they will understand, though they are a rebellious house.

4 Bring out your baggage for exile by day, as they watch. Then in the evening, as they watch, go out like those who go into exile.

As they watch, dig through the wall and carry your belongings out through it.

6 And as they watch, lift your bags to your shoulder and take them out at dusk; cover your face so that you cannot see the land. For I have made you a sign to the house of Israel.”

7 So I did as I was commanded. I brought out my bags for exile by day, and in the evening I dug through the wall by hand. I took my belongings out at dusk, carrying them on my shoulder as they watched.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
As they watch, dig through the wall and carry your belongings out through it.
KJV
Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
WEB
Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry your baggage out that way.
ASV
Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
DARBY
Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
BLB
Before their eyes you shall dig for yourself through the wall, and go out through it.
ÅB
Bryt deg et hull i veggen midt for deres øyne og bær dine ting ut gjennom den!
OTB
I deres nærvær, grav gjennom veggen og ta dine eiendeler ut gjennom den.
B1930
Bryt dig et hull i veggen midt for deres øine og bær dine ting ut gjennem den!

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Jeremiah 39:2–4

    And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the city was breached.

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  • 2 Kings 25:4

    Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,

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