Parallel Verses
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.
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 unto the house of Israel, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the glory of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and the gift of your soul; your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword. 22 You will do as I have done; you will not cover your mustache and you will not eat the bread of men. 23 And your turbans shall be upon your heads and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities and cry out one with another.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 27:15
Those that remain of him shall be buried in death; and their widows shall not weep.
Psalm 78:64
Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
Jeremiah 16:4-7
They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth; and they shall be consumed by the sword and by famine; and their carcasses shall be food for the fowls of heaven and for the beasts of the earth.
Jeremiah 47:3
At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;
Ezekiel 24:16-17
Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes by death; yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.
Amos 6:9-10
And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.