Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
And get the bits together, the fat tail, every good part, the leg and the top part of it: make it full of the best bones.
New American Standard Bible
Every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder;
Fill it with choice bones.
King James Version
Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
Holman Bible
every good piece—
thigh and shoulder.
Fill it with choice bones.
International Standard Version
Gather together the best pieces of meat on it including the thighs and the shoulders and fill it with the choicest bones.
A Conservative Version
Gather the pieces of it into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
American Standard Version
gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
Amplified
“Put in it the pieces [of meat],
Every good piece (the people of Jerusalem), the thigh and the shoulder;
Fill it with choice bones.
Darby Translation
Gather the pieces thereof into it, every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones:
Julia Smith Translation
Gather its pieces into it, every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder; fill with the choice of the bones.
King James 2000
Gather its pieces into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Gather its pieces to it, every good piece, thigh and shoulder, fill it [with] choice bones;
Modern King James verseion
Gather its pieces into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder. Fill it with the choice bones.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
put all the pieces together in it, all the good pieces: the loin and the shoulder, and fill it with the best bones.
NET Bible
add the pieces of meat to it, every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder; fill it with choice bones.
New Heart English Bible
gather its pieces into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
The Emphasized Bible
Gather the pieces thereof into it, Every good piece thigh and shoulder, With the choice of the bones, fill it:
Webster
Gather its pieces into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
World English Bible
gather its pieces into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
Youngs Literal Translation
To gather its pieces unto it, every good piece, Thigh and shoulder, the choice of the bones to fill in.
Themes
Ezekiel » Teaches by pantomime » Employs a boiling pot to symbolize the destruction of jerusalem
Interlinear
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References
Easton
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 24:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Boiling Pot And The Death Of Ezekiel's Wife
3 And make a comparison for this uncontrolled people, and say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Put on the cooking-pot, put it on the fire and put water in it: 4 And get the bits together, the fat tail, every good part, the leg and the top part of it: make it full of the best bones. 5 Take the best of the flock, put much wood under it: see that its bits are boiling well; let the bones be cooked inside it.
Names
Cross References
Micah 3:2-3
You who are haters of good and lovers of evil, pulling off their skin from them and their flesh from their bones;
Ezekiel 22:18-22
Son of man, the children of Israel have become like the poorest sort of waste metal to me: they are all silver and brass and tin and iron and lead mixed with waste.
Matthew 7:2
For as you have been judging, so you will be judged, and with your measure will it be measured to you.