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Ezekiel 5:3

1 “As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword, use it as a barber’s razor, and shave your head and beard. Then take a set of scales and divide the hair.

2 When the days of the siege have ended, you are to burn up a third of the hair inside the city; you are also to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind. For I will unleash a sword behind them.

But you are to take a few strands of hair and secure them in the folds of your garment.

4 Again, take a few of these, throw them into the fire, and burn them. From there a fire will spread to the whole house of Israel.

5 This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘This is Jerusalem, which I have set in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.

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BSB
But you are to take a few strands of hair and secure them in the folds of your garment.
KJV
Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.
WEB
You shall take a small number of these and bind them in the folds of your robe.
ASV
And thou shalt take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.
DARBY
And thou shalt take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts;
BLB
And you shall take from them a few in number, and you shall bind them in your skirts.
ÅB
Men noen få hår skal du ta unna, og dem skal du knytte inn i dine kjortelfliker,
OTB
Ta noen få hår fra dem og bind dem i kantene av kappen din.
B1930
Men nogen få hår skal du ta unda, og dem skal du knytte inn i dine kjortelfliker,

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