1And the hand of LORD JEHOVAH was there upon me, and he brought me in the Spirit of LORD JEHOVAH, and he set me in a plain, and it was filled with bones 2And he made me pass over them and around them, and I saw that there were very in the plain, and they were very dry 3And he said to me: “Son of man, are these bones living?” And I said, “You know, LORD OF LORDS!” 4And he said to me: “Prophesy over these bones, and say to them: ‘Dry bones, hear the word of LORD JEHOVAH! 5Thus says THE LORD OF LORDS to these bones: “Behold, I am bringing The Spirit into you, and you shall live! 6And I shall put sinews upon you, and I shall bring flesh upon you, and I shall spread skin over you, and I shall put a spirit within you, and you shall live, and you shall know that I AM LORD JEHOVAH’

7And I prophesied as he commanded me, and when I prophesied, there was a sound and an earthquake, and the bones approached, each bone unto its joint 8And I saw that sinews and flesh came up upon them, and skin was spread over them from above, and The Spirit was not in them 9And he said to me: ‘Prophesy unto The Spirit, prophesy, son of man, and say to the Spirit: “Thus says THE LORD OF LORDS: come, Spirit, from the four Spirits (or “Winds”), and breathe into these slain, and they shall live!”’ 10And I prophesied as he commanded me, and The Spirit entered into them, and they were alive, and they stood on their feet, an army that was very great!

11And he said to me: “Son of man, these are all the bones of the children of Israel, who say, ‘Our bones have dried up and our hope is destroyed, and we have destroyed ourselves!’ 12Because of this, prophesy, and say to them: ‘Thus says THE LORD OF LORDS: behold, I open your graves and I bring you up from your graves, and I bring you to the land of Israel 13And you shall know that I AM LORD JEHOVAH, when I have opened your graves and when I have brought you out from your graves 14I shall put my Spirit into you, and you shall live, and I shall set you free in your land, and you shall know that I AM LORD JEHOVAH. I have spoken and I act, says THE LORD OF LORDS’

15And the word of LORD JEHOVAH was upon me, saying: 16“But you, son of man, take one stick for yourself, and write upon it ‘Yehuda and the children of Israel his companions’, and take another stick and write upon it, ‘Yoseph’ on the stick of Aphreim, ‘And all the children of Israel his companions’ 17And bring them near, one to another, and they shall become one stick in your hand 18And when the children of your people have said to you, ‘Show us what these are’ 19Say to them, ‘Thus says THE LORD OF LORDS: behold, I take the stick of Yoseph in the hand of Aphreim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and I shall put them with the stick of Yehuda, and I shall make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand’ 20And the sticks upon which you write, hold fast in your hand in their sight 21And say to them: ‘Thus says THE LORD OF LORDS: behold, I have taken the children of Israel from among the nations to which they went, and I shall gather them, and I shall bring them to their land 22And I shall make them one people in the earth, in the mountains of Israel, and they shall have one King, and they shall not again be two nations, and they shall be divided no more into two kingdoms 23And they shall be defiled no more with their idols and with their abominations and with all their evil, and I shall deliver them from every house of their dwelling in which they had sinned, and I shall cleanse them, and they shall be to me a people, and I shall be God to them

24And my Servant David shall reign over them, and there shall be the one Shepherd for them all, and they shall walk in my judgments, and they shall keep my commandments, and they shall do them 25And they shall dwell in the land that I have given to my Servant, Yaqob, in which their fathers dwelt, and they shall dwell in it, and their children, and the children of their children for eternity, and David my Servant shall be their Leader for eternity 26And I shall raise up to them a covenant of peace and an eternal covenant shall be with them, and I shall multiply them and I shall put my holy place among them for eternity 27And the house of my dwelling will be in them, and those shall be a nation to me 28And the nations shall know that I AM LORD JEHOVAH, I, who hallow Israel, when my holy place is in them for eternity