Ezekiel 24:22
New International Version
And you will do as I have done. You will not cover your mustache and beard or eat the customary food of mourners.

New Living Translation
Then you will do as Ezekiel has done. You will not mourn in public or console yourselves by eating the food brought by friends.

English Standard Version
And you shall do as I have done; you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.

Berean Standard Bible
Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lips or eat the bread of mourners.

King James Bible
And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.

New King James Version
And you shall do as I have done; you shall not cover your lips nor eat man’s bread of sorrow.

New American Standard Bible
And you will do just as I have done; you will not cover your mustache, and you will not eat the bread of other people.

NASB 1995
You will do as I have done; you will not cover your mustache and you will not eat the bread of men.

NASB 1977
‘And you will do as I have done; you will not cover your mustache, and you will not eat the bread of men.

Legacy Standard Bible
And you will do as I have done; you will not cover your mustache, and you will not eat the bread of men.

Amplified Bible
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.

Christian Standard Bible
Then you will do just as I have done: You will not cover your mustache or eat the bread of mourners.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then you will do just as I have done: You will not cover your mustache or eat the bread of mourners.

American Standard Version
And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And you shall do as I have done, and you shall cover your lips, and the bread of the children of men you shall not eat

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not be comforted at their mouth, and ye shall not eat the bread of men.

Contemporary English Version
Then you will do the same things I have done. You will leave your face uncovered and refuse to eat the food that mourners usually eat.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And you shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your faces, nor shall you eat the meat of mourners.

English Revised Version
And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Then you must do as I did. Don't cover your faces or eat the food that mourners eat.

Good News Translation
Then you will do what I have done. You will not cover your faces or eat the food that mourners eat.

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.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your upper lips, nor eat the bread of men;

Literal Standard Version
And you have done as I have done, | You have not covered over the upper lip, | And you do not eat [the] bread of men.

Majority Standard Bible
Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lips or eat the bread of mourners.

New American Bible
Then you shall do as I have done, not covering your beards nor eating the bread of mourning.

NET Bible
Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lip or eat food brought by others.

New Revised Standard Version
And you shall do as I have done; you shall not cover your upper lip or eat the bread of mourners.

New Heart English Bible
You shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.

Webster's Bible Translation
And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.

World English Bible
You will do as I have done. You won’t cover your lips or eat mourner’s bread.

Young's 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.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Ezekiel's Wife Dies
21Tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I am about to desecrate My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and the delight of your soul. And the sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.’ 22Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lips or eat the bread of mourners. 23Your turbans will remain on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not mourn or weep, but you will waste away because of your sins, and you will groan among yourselves.…

Cross References
Leviticus 13:45
A diseased person must wear torn clothes and let his hair hang loose, and he must cover his mouth and cry out, 'Unclean, unclean!'

Ezekiel 24:21
Tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: 'I am about to desecrate My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and the delight of your soul. And the sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.'

Ezekiel 24:23
Your turbans will remain on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not mourn or weep, but you will waste away because of your sins, and you will groan among yourselves.


Treasury of Scripture

And you shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.

Ezekiel 24:16,17
Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down…

Job 27:15
Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.

Psalm 78:64
Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.

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Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Then you will do
וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֖ם (wa·‘ă·śî·ṯem)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 6213: To do, make

as
כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר (ka·’ă·šer)
Preposition-k | Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

I have done:
עָשִׂ֑יתִי (‘ā·śî·ṯî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

You will not
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

cover
תַעְט֔וּ (ṯa‘·ṭū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 5844: To wrap oneself, enwrap, envelop oneself

[your] lips
שָׂפָם֙ (śā·p̄ām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 8222: The beard

or eat
תֹאכֵֽלוּ׃ (ṯō·ḵê·lū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 398: To eat

the bread
וְלֶ֥חֶם (wə·le·ḥem)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3899: Food, bread, grain

of mourners.
אֲנָשִׁ֖ים (’ă·nā·šîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person


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