Ezekiel 5:3
Good News Translation
Keep back a few hairs and wrap them in the hem of your clothes.

New Revised Standard Version
Then you shall take from these a small number, and bind them in the skirts of your robe.

Contemporary English Version
Keep a few of the hairs and wrap them in the hem of your clothes.

New American Bible
But take a few of the hairs and tie them in the hem of your garment.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt take thereof a small number: and shalt bind them in the skirt of thy cloak.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And thou shalt take thereof a small number: and shalt bind them in the skirt of thy cloak.

a few

2 Kings 25:12 But of the poor of the land he left some dressers of vines and husbandmen.

Jeremiah 39:10 But Nabuzardan the general left some of the poor people that had nothing at all, in the land of Juda, and he gave them vineyards, and cisterns at that time.

Jeremiah 40:6 And Jeremiah went to Godolias the son of Ahicam to Masphath: and dwelt with him in the midst of the people that were left in the land.

Jeremiah 52:16 But of the poor of the land, Nabuzardan the general left some for vinedressers, and for husbandmen.

Matthew 7:14 How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it!

Luke 13:23,24 And a certain man said to him: Lord, are they few that are saved? But he said to them: . . .

1 Peter 4:18 And if the just man shall scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

skirts [heb] wings

Context
Judgment Against Jerusalem
2A third part thou shalt burn with fire in the midst of the city, according to the fulfilling of the days of the siege: and thou shalt take a third part, and cut it in pieces with the knife all round about: and the other third part thou shalt scatter in the wind, and I will draw out the sword after them. 3And thou shalt take thereof a small number: and shalt bind them in the skirt of thy cloak.4And thou shalt take of them again, and shalt cast them in the midst of the fire, and shalt burn them with fire: and out of it shall come forth a fire into all the house of Israel.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 5:2
A third part thou shalt burn with fire in the midst of the city, according to the fulfilling of the days of the siege: and thou shalt take a third part, and cut it in pieces with the knife all round about: and the other third part thou shalt scatter in the wind, and I will draw out the sword after them.

Ezekiel 5:4
And thou shalt take of them again, and shalt cast them in the midst of the fire, and shalt burn them with fire: and out of it shall come forth a fire into all the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 5:2
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