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Ezekiel 4:6

4 Then lie down on your left side and place the iniquity of the house of Israel upon yourself. You are to bear their iniquity for the number of days you lie on your side.

5 For I have assigned to you 390 days, according to the number of years of their iniquity. So you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

When you have completed these days, lie down again, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have assigned to you 40 days, a day for each year.

7 You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared, and prophesy against it.

8 Now behold, I will tie you up with ropes so you cannot turn from side to side until you have finished the days of your siege.

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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
When you have completed these days, lie down again, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have assigned to you 40 days, a day for each year.
KJV
And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.
WEB
“Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have appointed forty days, each day for a year, to you.
ASV
And again, when thou hast accomplished these, thou shalt lie on thy right side, and shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty days, each day for a year, have I appointed it unto thee.
DARBY
And when thou hast accomplished them, thou shalt lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.
BLB
And you shall complete these, and you shall lie down on your right side [this] second [time], and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days—a day for a year. A day for a year I have given for you.
ÅB
Og når du er kommet til ende med dem, så skal du annen gang legge deg på din høyre side og bære Juda-folkets misgjerning; i førti dager, en dag for hvert år, vil jeg la deg bære den.
OTB
Når du har fullført disse dagene, legg deg igjen, denne gangen på din høyre side, og bær Judas hus’ misgjerning. Jeg har gitt deg førti dager, en dag for hvert år.
B1930
Og når du er kommet til ende med dem, så skal du annen gang legge dig på din høire side og bære Juda-folkets misgjerning; i firti dager, en dag for hvert år, vil jeg la dig bære den.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Numbers 14:34

    In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.

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  • Daniel 12:11–12

    And from the time the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination of desolation set up, there will be 1,290 days.

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  • Daniel 9:24–26

    Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.

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  • Revelation 11:2–3

    But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Do not measure it, because it has been given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months.

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  • Revelation 13:5

    The beast was given a mouth to speak arrogant and blasphemous words, and authority to act for 42 months.

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  • Revelation 9:15

    So the four angels who had been prepared for this hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.

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  • Revelation 12:14

    But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle to fly from the presence of the serpent to her place in the wilderness, where she was nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.

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