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Ezekiel 24:17
“Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for the dead; bind your headdress on you, and put your shoes on your feet, and don't cover your lips, and don't eat men's bread.”
Verse in context — Ezekiel 24
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Also the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
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Son of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.
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Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for the dead; bind your headdress on you, and put your shoes on your feet, and don't cover your lips, and don't eat men's bread.
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So I spoke to the people in the morning; and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
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The people said to me, Won't you tell us what these things are to us, that you do so?
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