Ezekiel 5:3
New International Version
But take a few hairs and tuck them away in the folds of your garment.

New Living Translation
Keep just a bit of the hair and tie it up in your robe.

English Standard Version
And you shall take from these a small number and bind them in the skirts of your robe.

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

King James Bible
Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.

New King James Version
You shall also take a small number of them and bind them in the edge of your garment.

New American Standard Bible
Take also a few hairs in number from them and bind them in the hems of your robes.

NASB 1995
“Take also a few in number from them and bind them in the edges of your robes.

NASB 1977
“Take also a few in number from them and bind them in the edges of your robes.

Legacy Standard Bible
You shall also take a few in number from them and bind them in the edges of your robes.

Amplified Bible
Also take some of them and bind them in the edges of your robes.

Christian Standard Bible
But you are to take a few strands from the hair and secure them in the folds of your robe.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But you are to take a few strands from the hair and secure them in the folds of your robe.

American Standard Version
And thou shalt take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And you shall take from there a few in number and sew them on your hem

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And thou shalt take thence a few in number, and shalt wrap them in the fold of thy garment.

Contemporary English Version
Keep a few of the hairs and wrap them in the hem of your clothes.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt take thereof a small number: and shalt bind them in the skirt of thy cloak.

English Revised Version
And thou shalt take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Take a few strands of hair, and wrap them in the hem of your clothes.

Good News Translation
Keep back a few hairs and wrap them in the hem of your clothes.

International Standard Version
You are to preserve a few strands of hair and hide them in the folds of your garment.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Thou shalt also take thereof a few by number, and bind them in thy skirts.

Literal Standard Version
And you have taken there a few in number—and have bound them in your skirts;

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

New American Bible
But take a few of the hairs and tie them in the hem of your garment.

NET Bible
But take a few strands of hair from those and tie them in the ends of your garment.

New Revised Standard Version
Then you shall take from these a small number, and bind them in the skirts of your robe.

New Heart English Bible
You shall take of it a few in number, and bind them in your skirts.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt also take of them a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.

World English Bible
You shall take a small number of these and bind them in the folds of your robe.

Young's Literal Translation
And thou hast taken thence a few in number -- and hast bound them in thy skirts;

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Judgment Against Jerusalem
2When 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. 3But you are to take a few strands of hair and secure them in the folds of your garment. 4Again, 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.…

Cross References
Ezekiel 5:2
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.

Ezekiel 5:4
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.


Treasury of Scripture

You shall also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in your skirts.

a few

2 Kings 25:12
But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.

Jeremiah 39:10
But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.

Jeremiah 40:6
Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land.

skirts [heb] wings

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Ezekiel 5
1. Under the type of hair
5. is shown the judgment of Jerusalem for their rebellion
12. by famine, sword, and dispersion














(3) A few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.--A small remnant of the people was still left in the land after the great captivity (2Kings 25:22); but even of these some were to perish by violence ("cast them into the midst of the fire") in the disorders which arose, and from this "shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel." (See Jeremiah 40, 41) The ultimate result was the expatriation of all that remained in Judaea, and the entire emptying of the land of the chosen people.

At this point the use of symbolism ceases for a while, and the prophet now, for the first time, begins to utter his prophecies in plain language. Accordingly, he changes his style from prose to the more ordinary form of prophetic utterance in parallelisms, which constitute the distinctive feature of Hebrew poetry, and this continues until another vision begins with Ezekiel 8.

Verses 3, 4. - Thou shalt also take, etc. The words may point

(1) either to those in Jerusalem who had escaped the famine and the sword, and were left in the land (2 Kings 25:22; Jeremiah 40:6; Jeremiah 40:6); or

(2) to those who should go into exile, and yet even there suffer from the "fire" of God's chastening judgments. They were, if saved at all, to be saved "so as by fire" (1 Corinthians 3:15), to be as "brands plucked from the burning" (Amos 4:11; Zechariah 3:2). Isaiah's thought of the "remnant" (Isaiah 10:20-22; Isaiah 11:11-16) seems hardly to come in here. The whole utterance is one of denunciation. The act of "binding in the skirts" implies only a limited protection. Omit "for," and for "thereof" read "therefrom," s.c. from the fire (Revised Version).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
But you are to take
וְלָקַחְתָּ֥ (wə·lā·qaḥ·tā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 3947: To take

a few
מְעַ֣ט (mə·‘aṭ)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 4592: A little, fewness, a few

strands of hair
בְּמִסְפָּ֑ר (bə·mis·pār)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4557: A number, definite, indefinite, narration

and secure
וְצַרְתָּ֥ (wə·ṣar·tā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 6696: To confine, bind, besiege

them
אוֹתָ֖ם (’ō·w·ṯām)
Direct object marker | third person masculine plural
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

in the folds of your garment.
בִּכְנָפֶֽיךָ׃ (biḵ·nā·p̄e·ḵā)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3671: An edge, extremity, a wing, a flap, a quarter, a pinnacle


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