Parallel Verses
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}.
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.
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.
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.
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 "Say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I [will be] profaning my sanctuary, the pride of your strength [and] the delight of your eyes and the object of your own affection; and your sons and your daughters whom you left behind will fall by the sword, 22 and you shall do {just as} I did: You shall not cover your [upper] lip, and you shall not eat [the] bread of {mourners}. 23 And your turban [must be] on your heads, and your sandals [must be] on your feet. You shall not mourn, and you shall not weep, but you shall waste away because of your iniquities, and you shall groan {to one another}.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 27:15
Their survivors are buried through the plague, and their widows do not weep.
Psalm 78:64
His priests fell by the sword, and his widows did not weep.
Jeremiah 16:4-7
"They will die by diseases, they will not be mourned, and they will not be buried. They will be as dung on the face of the earth. And they will perish by the sword and they will perish by the famine. And their dead bodies will become food for the birds of the air, and for the wild animals of the earth."
Jeremiah 47:3
from the sound of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions, from the clattering of his chariots, the noise of their wheels. Fathers do not turn to [their] children because of [the] slackness of [their] hands.
Ezekiel 24:16-17
"Son of man, look! I [am] taking from you what is pleasing to your eyes with a plague, but you shall not mourn, and you shall not weep, and your tears shall not run down.
Amos 6:9-10
And then if ten people remain in one house, they too will die.