Ezekiel 5:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And you, son of man, take a sharp sword, using it like a haircutter's blade, and making it go over your head and the hair of your chin: and take scales for separating the hair by weight.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 21:5 : 5 They are not to have their hair cut off for the dead, or the hair on their chins cut short, or make cuts in their flesh.
  • Isa 7:20 : 20 In that day will the Lord take away the hair of the head and of the feet, as well as the hair of the face, with a blade got for a price from the other side of the River; even with the king of Assyria.
  • Ezek 44:20 : 20 They are not to have all the hair cut off their heads, and they are not to let their hair get long, but they are to have the ends of their hair cut.
  • Dan 5:27 : 27 Tekel; you have been put in the scales and seen to be under weight.

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  • Ezek 5:2-4
    3 verses
    83%

    2 You are to have a third part burned with fire inside the town, when the days of the attack are ended; and a third part you are to take and give blows with the sword round about it; and give a third part for the wind to take away, and let loose a sword after them.

    3 And take from them a small number of hairs, folding them in your skirts.

    4 And again take some of these and put them in the fire, burning them up in the fire; and say to all the children of Israel,

  • Isa 7:20
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    20 In that day will the Lord take away the hair of the head and of the feet, as well as the hair of the face, with a blade got for a price from the other side of the River; even with the king of Assyria.

  • Lev 19:27
    73%

    27 The ends of the hair round your face and on your chin may not be cut off.

  • Jer 48:37
    72%

    37 For everywhere the hair of the head and the hair of the face is cut off: on every hand there are wounds, and haircloth on every body.

  • Lev 21:5
    72%

    5 They are not to have their hair cut off for the dead, or the hair on their chins cut short, or make cuts in their flesh.

  • Lev 13:40-41
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    72%

    40 And if a man's hair has come out and he has no hair, still he is clean.

    41 And if the hair has gone from the front part of his head, so that he has no hair there, still he is clean.

  • Mic 1:16
    71%

    16 Let your head be uncovered and your hair cut off in sorrow for the children of your delight: let the hair be pulled from your head like an eagle's; for they have been taken away from you as prisoners.

  • Num 6:5
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    5 All the time he is under his oath let no blade come near his head; till the days while he is separate are ended he is holy and his hair may not be cut.

  • Lev 14:9
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    9 And on the seventh day he is to have all the hair cut off his head and his chin and over his eyes--all his hair is to be cut off--and he will have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and he will be clean.

  • Jer 47:5
    70%

    5 The hair is cut off from the head of Gaza; Ashkelon has come to nothing; the last of the Anakim are deeply wounding themselves.

  • Jer 7:29
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    29 Let your hair be cut off, O Jerusalem, and let it go, and let a song of grief go up on the open hilltops; for the Lord is turned away from the generation of his wrath and has given them up.

  • Ezek 33:1-2
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    69%

    1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

    2 Son of man, give a word to the children of your people, and say to them, When I make the sword come on a land, if the people of the land take a man from among their number and make him their watchman:

  • Lev 13:29
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    29 And when a man or a woman has a disease on the head, or in the hair of the chin,

  • Ezek 44:20
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    20 They are not to have all the hair cut off their heads, and they are not to let their hair get long, but they are to have the ends of their hair cut.

  • Deut 14:1
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    1 You are the children of the Lord your God: you are not to make cuts on your bodies or take off the hair on your brows in honour of the dead;

  • Num 6:9
    69%

    9 If death comes suddenly to a man at his side, so that he becomes unclean, let his hair be cut off on the day when he is made clean, on the seventh day.

  • Isa 22:12
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    12 And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief:

  • Ezek 4:1
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    1 And you, son of man, take a back and put it before you and on it make a picture of a town, even Jerusalem.

  • Num 6:18
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    18 Then let his long hair, the sign of his oath, be cut off at the door of the Tent of meeting, and let him put it on the fire on which the peace-offerings are burning.

  • Ezek 21:28
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    28 And you, son of man, say as a prophet, This is what the Lord has said about the children of Ammon and about their shame: Say, A sword, even a sword let loose, polished for death, to make it shining so that it may be like a flame:

  • Ezek 28:11
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    11 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • Ezek 21:9
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    9 Son of man, say as a prophet, These are the words of the Lord: Say, A sword, a sword which has been made sharp and polished:

  • Num 8:7
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    7 And this is how you are to make them clean: let the holy water which takes away sin be put on them, and let the hair all over their bodies be cut off with a sharp blade, and let their clothing be washed and their bodies made clean.

  • Lev 13:33
    68%

    33 Then his hair is to be cut off, but not on the diseased place, and he is to be shut up for seven days more:

  • Ezek 21:2-3
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    68%

    2 Son of man, let your face be turned to Jerusalem, let your words be dropped in the direction of her holy place, and be a prophet against the land of Israel;

    3 And say to the land of Israel, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, and I will take my sword out of its cover, cutting off from you the upright and the evil.

  • Ezek 21:14
    68%

    14 So then, son of man, be a prophet, and put your hands together with a loud sound, and give two blows with the sword, and even three; it is the sword of those who are wounded, even the sword of the wounded; the great sword which goes round about them.

  • Ezek 21:12
    68%

    12 Give loud cries and make sounds of grief, O son of man: for it has come on my people, it has come on all the rulers of Israel: fear of the sword has come on my people: for this cause give signs of grief.

  • Ezek 7:18
    68%

    18 And they will put haircloth round them, and deep fear will be covering them; and shame will be on all faces, and the hair gone from all their heads.

  • Ezek 4:7
    68%

    7 And let your face be turned to where Jerusalem is shut in, with your arm uncovered, and be a prophet against it.

  • 2 Sam 14:26
    68%

    26 And when he had his hair cut, (which he did at the end of every year, because of the weight of his hair;) the weight of the hair was two hundred shekels by the king's weight.

  • Ezek 24:16
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    16 Son of man, see, I am taking away the desire of your eyes by disease: but let there be no sorrow or weeping or drops running from your eyes.

  • Ezek 14:17
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    17 Or if I send a sword against that land, and say, Sword, go through the land, cutting off from it man and beast:

  • Isa 3:24-25
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    24 And in the place of sweet spices will be an evil smell, and for a fair band a thick cord; for a well-dressed head there will be the cutting-off of the hair, and for a beautiful robe there will be the clothing of sorrow; the mark of the prisoner in place of the ornaments of the free.

    25 Your men will be put to the sword, and your men of war will come to destruction in the fight.

  • Ezek 21:19
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    19 And you, son of man, have two ways marked out, so that the sword of the king of Babylon may come; let the two of them come out of one land: and let there be a pillar at the top of the road:

  • Ezek 22:1
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    1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • Ezek 5:12
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    12 A third of you will come to death from disease, wasting away among you through need of food; a third will be put to the sword round about you; and a third I will send away to every wind, letting loose a sword after them.

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    8 For this cause the Lord has said: See, I am sending a sword on you, cutting off from you man and beast.

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    5 Some people came from Shechem, from Shiloh and Samaria, eighty men, with the hair of their faces cut off and their clothing out of order, and with cuts on their bodies, and in their hands meal offerings and perfumes which they were taking to the house of the Lord.

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    8 You have been fearing the sword, and I will send the sword on you, says the Lord.

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    4 For this cause be a prophet against them, be a prophet, O son of man.

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    2 Take the crushing-stones and get the meal crushed: take off your veil, put away your robe, let your legs be uncovered, go through the rivers.

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    4 So Hanun took David's servants, and after cutting off half the hair on their chins, and cutting off the skirts of their robes up to the middle, he sent them away.

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    3 And you, O son of man, by day, before their eyes, get ready the vessels of one who is taken away, and go away from your place to another place before their eyes: it may be that they will see, though they are an uncontrolled people.