These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Ezekiel 33
Tanakh 33 verses
- 1 And the of came unto me, saying:
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Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them: When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman;
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Ezekiel 3:11 Ezekiel 33:17 Ezekiel 33:30 Jeremiah 12:12 Ezekiel 14:17 Zechariah 13:7 Ezekiel 6:3 Ezekiel 21:9-16 Jeremiah 25:31 Ezekiel 3:27 Isaiah 62:6 Ezekiel 11:8 2 Samuel 18:24-27 Isaiah 21:6-9 Ezekiel 14:21 Isaiah 56:9-10 Jeremiah 47:6-7 Jeremiah 51:12 Ezekiel 33:7 Ezekiel 37:18 Jeremiah 15:2-3 Hosea 9:8 Leviticus 26:25 Ezekiel 33:12 2 Kings 9:17-20 -
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if, when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the horn, and warn the people;
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- 4 then whosoever heareth the sound of the horn, and taketh not warning, if the sword come, and take him away, his shall be upon his own head;
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he heard the sound of the horn, and took not warning, his shall be upon him; whereas if he had taken warning, he would have delivered his .
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- 6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the horn, and the people be not warned, and the sword do come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity, but his will I require at the watchman’s hand.
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So thou, son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of ; therefore, when thou shalt the at My mouth, warn them from Me.
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Jeremiah 26:2 Jeremiah 1:17 Ezekiel 3:17-21 Ezekiel 2:7-8 Acts 5:20 Isaiah 62:6 Jeremiah 23:28 Ephesians 4:11 Acts 20:26-27 1 Corinthians 11:23 Acts 20:20 Hebrews 13:17 Micah 7:4 Colossians 1:28-29 Jeremiah 6:27 2 Chronicles 19:10 Song of Solomon 3:3 1 Kings 22:14 1 Kings 22:16-28 Song of Solomon 5:7 1 Corinthians 15:3 Jeremiah 31:6 1 Thessalonians 4:1-2 - 8 When I say unto the wicked: O wicked man, thou shalt surely die, and thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his will I require at thy hand.
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Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he turn not from his way; he shall die in his iniquity, but thou hast delivered thy .
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Therefore, O thou son of man, say unto the house of : Thus ye speak, saying: Our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we pine away in them; how then can we live?
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Say unto them: As I live, saith , I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of ?
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Ezekiel 18:23 1 Timothy 2:4 2 Peter 3:9 Isaiah 55:6-7 Ezekiel 18:30-32 Numbers 14:21 Hosea 11:8 Isaiah 49:18 Jeremiah 3:22 Acts 26:20 Hosea 14:1 Ezekiel 5:11 Acts 3:19 Jeremiah 22:24 Lamentations 3:33 Proverbs 8:36 Numbers 14:28 Daniel 9:13 Proverbs 1:23 2 Samuel 14:14 Luke 15:20-32 Jeremiah 31:18-20 Jeremiah 46:18 Ezekiel 16:48 Ezekiel 14:16-18 Romans 14:11 Ezekiel 14:6 Zephaniah 2:9 - 12 And thou, son of man, say unto the children of thy people: The of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not stumble thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall he that is righteous be able to live thereby in the day that he sinneth.
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When I say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his , and commit iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, for it shall he die.
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- 14 Again, when I say unto the wicked: Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
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if the wicked restore the pledge, give back that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
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Ezekiel 20:11 Luke 19:8 Exodus 22:1-4 Ezekiel 18:7 Leviticus 6:2-5 Leviticus 18:5 Ezekiel 18:16 Amos 2:8 Job 24:9 Job 22:6 Deuteronomy 24:10-13 Deuteronomy 24:6 Ezekiel 20:13 Ezekiel 18:12 Ezekiel 20:21 Luke 1:6 Revelation 22:12-14 Psalm 119:93 Ezekiel 18:27-28 Deuteronomy 24:17 Exodus 22:26-27 Numbers 5:6-8 Job 24:3 -
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None of his sins that he hath committed shall be remembered against him; he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
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Yet the children of thy people say: The way of is not equal; but as for them, their way is not equal.
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When the righteous turneth from his , and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
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And when the wicked turneth from his wickedness, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
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- 20 Yet ye say: The way of is not equal. O house of , I will judge you every one after his ways.’
- 21 And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out of came unto me, saying: ‘The city is smitten.’
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Now the hand of had been upon me in the evening, before he that was escaped came; and He had opened my mouth against his coming to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.
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- 23 Then the of came unto me, saying:
- 24 Son of man, they that inhabit those waste places in the land of speak, saying: was one, and he inherited the land; but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.
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Wherefore say unto them: Thus saith . Ye eat with the , and lift up your eyes unto your idols, and shed ; and shall ye possess the land?
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Deuteronomy 12:16 Genesis 9:4 Jeremiah 7:9-10 Leviticus 3:17 Ezekiel 22:27 Ezekiel 22:6 Ezekiel 18:6 Psalm 24:4 Jeremiah 44:15-19 Ezekiel 9:9 Deuteronomy 4:19 Ezekiel 18:12 Leviticus 17:10-14 Acts 21:25 Ezekiel 18:15 1 Samuel 14:32-34 Ezekiel 22:9 Acts 15:20-21 Leviticus 7:26-27 Leviticus 19:26 Acts 15:29 -
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Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour’s wife; and shall ye possess the land?
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Zephaniah 3:3 Genesis 27:40 Micah 2:1-2 Leviticus 20:22 Psalm 94:20-21 Ezekiel 18:15 Joshua 23:15-16 Leviticus 18:25-30 Ezekiel 22:9-11 Revelation 21:8 Deuteronomy 29:18-23 Leviticus 20:13 Revelation 21:27 Deuteronomy 4:25-26 Ezekiel 18:6 Jeremiah 5:8-9 1 Kings 11:5-7 Ezekiel 18:11-12 1 Peter 4:3 Psalm 50:16-20 1 Samuel 2:30 - 27 Thus shalt thou say unto them: Thus saith : As I live, surely they that are in the waste places shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that are in the strongholds and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.
- 28 And I will make the land most desolate, and the pride of her power shall cease; and the mountains of shall be desolate, so that none shall pass through.
- 29 Then shall they that I am , when I have made the land most desolate, because of all their abominations which they have committed.
- 30 And as for thee, son of man, the children of thy people that talk of thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying: Come, I pray you, and what is the that cometh forth from ;
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and come unto thee as the people cometh, and sit before thee as My people, and thy words, but do them not—for with their mouth they show much , but their goeth after their covetousness;
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Psalm 78:36-37 Matthew 13:22 Isaiah 29:13 Luke 11:28 James 1:22-24 Isaiah 28:13 James 2:14-16 Ezekiel 8:1 Luke 6:48-49 Ezekiel 20:1-32 Luke 16:14 Luke 10:39 Jeremiah 23:33-38 Acts 10:33 Jeremiah 6:16-17 Jeremiah 43:1-7 Luke 8:21 Jeremiah 44:16 Luke 12:15-21 1 Timothy 6:9-10 Deuteronomy 5:28-29 Matthew 19:22 Ephesians 5:5 1 John 3:17-18 Ezekiel 14:1 Matthew 6:24 Ezekiel 22:27 Matthew 7:24-27 -
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and, lo, thou art unto them as a song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; so they thy words, but they do them not—
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when this cometh to pass—behold, it cometh—then shall they that a hath been among them.’
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