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Read›Ezekiel›Chapter 24

The Parable of the Cooking Pot

Ezekiel 24:4

In 11 translations

BSB
Put in the pieces of meat, every good piece— thigh and shoulder— fill it with choice bones.
KJV
Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
WEB
Gather its pieces into it, even every good piece: the thigh and the shoulder. Fill it with the choice bones.
ASV
gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
LSV
To gather its pieces to it, every good piece, || Thigh and shoulder, to fill in the choice of the bones.
YLT
To gather its pieces unto it, every good piece, Thigh and shoulder, the choice of the bones to fill in.
DBY
Gather the pieces thereof into it, every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder; fill [it] with the choice bones:
DRC
Heap together into if the pieces thereof, every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder, choice pieces and full of bones.
GNV
Gather the pieces thereof into it, euen euery good piece, as the thigh and the shoulder, and fill it with the chiefe bones.
JPS
Gather into it the pieces belonging to it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
LXXE
and put the pieces into it, every prime piece, the leg and shoulder taken off from the bones,

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Original-language editions

WLC
אֱסֹ֤ף נְתָחֶ֨יהָ֙ אֵלֶ֔יהָ כָּל־נֵ֥תַח ט֖וֹב יָרֵ֣ךְ וְכָתֵ֑ף מִבְחַ֥ר עֲצָמִ֖ים מַלֵּֽא׃
LXX-Br
καὶ ἔμβαλε εἰς αὐτὸν τὰ διχοτομήματα, πᾶν διχοτόμημα καλὸν, σκέλος καὶ ὦμον ἐκσεσαρκισμένα ἀπὸ τῶν ὀστῶν,

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Micah 3:2–3You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones. You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh…
  • Ezekiel 22:18–22“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead inside the furnace; they are but the dross of silver. Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because all of you…
  • Matthew 7:2For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

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