Parallel Verses
Amplified
You will do as I [Ezekiel] have done; you shall not cover your mustache nor eat the bread of [mourning brought to you by other] men.
New American Standard Bible
You will do as I have done; you will not cover your mustache and you will not eat the bread of men.
King James Version
And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
Holman Bible
Then you will do just as I have done: You will not cover your mustache or eat the bread of mourners.
International Standard Version
That's why you will soon be doing what I've just done. You are not to cover your mouth or eat what your comforters bring to you.
A Conservative Version
And ye shall do as I have done. Ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
American Standard Version
And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
Bible in Basic English
And you will do as I have done, not covering your lips or taking the food of those in grief.
Darby Translation
And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover the beard, neither eat the bread of men;
Julia Smith Translation
And ye did as I did: ye shall not cover over your mustachios, and the bread of men ye shall not eat
King James 2000
And you shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
Lexham Expanded Bible
and you shall do {just as} I did: You shall not cover your [upper] lip, and you shall not eat [the] bread of {mourners}.
Modern King James verseion
And you shall do as I have done. You shall not cover your lips nor eat the bread of men.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Like as I have done, so shall ye do also: Ye shall not hide your faces, ye shall eat no mourner's bread;
NET Bible
Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lip or eat food brought by others.
New Heart English Bible
You shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
The Emphasized Bible
Then shall ye do, as I have done. - The heard, shall ye not cover, And the bread of other men:, shall ye not eat;
Webster
And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
World English Bible
You shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
Youngs Literal Translation
And ye have done as I have done, On the upper lip ye are not covered, And bread of men ye do not eat.
Themes
Bread » Served round after funerals
Ezekiel » Teaches by pantomime » Does not show mourning upon the death of his wife
Interlinear
`atah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 24:22
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Boiling Pot And The Death Of Ezekiel's Wife
21
‘Speak to the house of Israel, “Thus says the Lord God, ‘Behold, I will
Phrases
Cross References
Job 27:15
“Those who survive him will be buried because of the plague,
And [their] widows will not be able to weep.
Psalm 78:64
His priests [Hophni and Phinehas] fell by the sword,
And His widows could not weep.
Jeremiah 16:4-7
“They will die of deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried; they will be like dung on the surface of the ground and come to an end by sword and famine, and their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth.”
Jeremiah 47:3
“Because of the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of the war-horses [of the Babylonian king],
The rattling of his chariots, and the rumbling of his wheels,
The fathers have not looked and turned back for their children,
So weak are their hands [with terror]
Ezekiel 24:16-17
“Son of man, listen carefully, I am about to take away from you the desire of your eyes [your wife] with a single stroke. Yet you shall not mourn and you shall not weep, and your tears shall not flow.
Amos 6:9-10
And it shall come to pass that if there remain ten men in one house, they shall die [by the pestilence that comes with war].