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Ezekiel 5:3
Ezekiel 5:3 is verse 3 of Ezekiel chapter 5, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
But you are to take a few strands of hair and secure them in the folds of your garment.
King James Version
Thou shalt also take thereof 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.
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Ezekiel 5:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible
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.
3 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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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
2 Kings 25:12But the captain of the guard left behind some of the poorest of the land to tend the vineyards and fields.
Jeremiah 39:10But Nebuzaradan left behind in the land of Judah some of the poor people who had no property, and at that time he gave them vineyards and fields.
Jeremiah 40:6So Jeremiah went to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah and stayed with him among the people who were left in the land.
Jeremiah 52:16But Nebuzaradan captain of the guard left behind some of the poorest of the land to tend the vineyards and fields.
Matthew 7:14But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.
Luke 13:23“Lord,” someone asked Him, “will only a few people be saved?” Jesus answered,
Luke 13:24“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.
1 Peter 4:18And, “If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?”