17 Cease from sighing: make no mourning for the dead, and bind the tire of thine head upon thee, [a]and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat [b]not the bread of men.

18 So I spake unto the people in the morning, and at even my wife died: and I did in [c]the morning, as I was commanded.

19 And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things mean toward us that thou doest so?

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 24:17 For in mourning they went bareheaded and barefooted, and also covered their lips.
  2. Ezekiel 24:17 That is, which the neighbors sent to them that mourned.
  3. Ezekiel 24:18 Meaning, the morning following.

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