Ezekiel 5:1-4
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5“Now as for you, son of man, take a asharp sword; take and 1use it as a barber’s razor on your head and beard. Then take bscales for weighing and divide 2the hair. 2“One-third you shall burn in the fire at the center of the city when the adays of the siege are fulfilled. Then you shall take one-third and strike it with the sword all around 1the city, and one-third you shall scatter to the wind; and I will bunsheathe a sword behind them. 3“You shall also take a few in number from 1them and bind them in the edges of your robes. 4“Take again some of them and throw them into the fire and burn them in the fire; from it a fire will 1spread to all the house of Israel.