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Bring out your belongings packed for exile during the day while they are watching. And go out at evening, while they are watching, as if for exile. While they are watching, dig a hole in the wall and carry your belongings out through it. While they are watching, raise your baggage onto your shoulder and carry it out in the dark.[a] You must cover your face so that you cannot see the ground[b] because I have made you an object lesson[c] to the house of Israel.”

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 12:6 tn Apart from this context the Hebrew term occurs only in Gen 15:17, in reference to the darkness after sunset. It may mean twilight.
  2. Ezekiel 12:6 tn Or “land” (ASV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).
  3. Ezekiel 12:6 sn See also Ezek 12:11 and 24:24, 27.