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Ezekiel 24:5

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Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein.

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  1. Ezekiel 24:3

    And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it:

  2. Ezekiel 24:4

    Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.

  3. Ezekiel 24:6

    Wherefore thus saith the Lord God; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.

  4. Ezekiel 24:7

    For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.