Ezekiel 33:25

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Summary

Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?

Ye eat

Lift up

And shed

Ezekiel 9:9

Ezekiel 22:6

Shall ye

Jeremiah 7:9

General references

Numbers 33:56

Deuteronomy 15:23

Bible References

Ye eat

Yet flesh with the life thereof, the bleed thereof, shall ye not eat;

An age-abiding statute to your generations, in all your dwellings, - none of the fat nor of the blood, shall ye eat.

And no manner of blood, shall ye eat, in any of your dwellings, - whether of bird or of beast:

And, what man soever, there may be of the house of Israel, or of the sojourners that sojourn in their midst, that partaketh of any manner of blood, then will I set my face against the person that partaketh of the blood, and will cut him off from the midst of his people.

Ye shall eat nothing with the blood thereof, - Ye shall not practise divination neither shall ye use magic.

Howbeit, the blood, shall ye not eat, - upon the earth, shalt thou pour it out, like water.

And the people darted greedily upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and felled them to the ground, - and the people did eat, with the blood.

but to write unto them, to abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

But, concerning them of the nations who have believed, we ourselves, sent, deciding that they should be guarding themselves, both as to idol sacrifice, and blood, and what is strangled, and fornication.

Lift up

Upon the mountains, hath not eaten, And his eyes, hath not lifted up unto the manufactured gods of the house of Israel, And the wife of his neighbour, hath not defiled, And unto a woman during her removal, hath not approached;

or lest thou shouldest lift up thine eyes towards the heavens and see the sun and the moon, and the stars - all the host of the heavens, and shouldest be seduced, and shouldest bow thyself down to them and he led to serve them, - the which Yahweh thy God hath assigned unto all the peoples under all the heavens;

The clean of hands, and pure of heart, - who hath not uplifted, to falsehood, his soul, nor sworn deceitfully,

Then all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other gods, and all the women standing by, a great convocation, - with all the people who were dwelling in the land of Egypt in Pathros, made answer unto Jeremiah, saying:

And shed

And he said unto me the iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah, is exceeding, great, and the land is filled with shed blood, and the city is full of over-reaching, - for they have said. Yahweh hath forsaken the land, - and Yahweh doth not see.

Lo! the princes of Israel, very man for his own arm, have they been in thee, For the sake of shedding blood.

Shall ye

Are ye to steal, commit murder and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, - and walk after other gods whom ye have not known;

General references

And it shall be, that as I thought to do unto them, I will do unto you.

Only the blood thereof, shalt thou not eat, - on the earth, shalt thou pour it out like water.