Ezekiel 5:1 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹ “And you, O son of man, take a sharp sword; use it as a barber's razor and pass it over your head and your beard; then take balances for weighing, and divide the hair.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ AND YOU, son of man [Ezekiel], take a sharp sword and use it as a barber's razor and shave your head and your beard. Then take balances for weighing and divide the hair into three parts.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp sword; as a barber’s razor shalt thou take it unto thee, and shalt cause it to pass upon thy head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.

Common English Bible

¹ You, human one, take a sharp sword. Use it like a razor and shave your head and beard. Then use scales to divide the hair.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ "And as for you, son of man, obtain for yourself a sharp knife for shaving hair, and you shall take it and draw it across your head and across your beard. And you shall obtain for yourself a balance for weighing, and you shall divide the hair.

Ezekiel 5:1 Cross References

Isaiah 7:20

In that day the Lord will shave with a razor which is hired beyond the River—with the king of Assyria—the head and the hair of the feet, and it will sweep away the beard also.

Jeremiah 19:1

Thus said the Lord, “Go, buy a potter's earthen flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the senior priests,

Ezekiel 4:1

“And you, O son of man, take a brick and lay it before you, and portray upon it a city, even Jerusalem;

Ezekiel 44:20

They shall not shave their heads or let their locks grow long; they shall only trim the hair of their heads.

Daniel 5:27

TEKEL, you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting;

Leviticus 21:5

They shall not make tonsures upon their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.