1And some of the ancients of Israel came to me, and sat before me.

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Ezekiel 8:1, Ezekiel 8:1, Ezekiel 20:1, Ezekiel 20:1, Ezekiel 33:31

2And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

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Amos 3:7, Amos 3:7, 1 Kings 14:4, 1 Kings 14:4

3Son of man, these men have placed their uncleannesses in their hearts, and have set up before their face the stumblingblock of their iniquity: and shall I answer when they inquire of me?

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Ezekiel 14:7, Ezekiel 14:7, Ezekiel 7:19, Ezekiel 7:19, Isaiah 1:15

4Therefore speak to them, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Man, man of the house of Israel that shall place his uncleannesses in his heart, and set up the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and shall come to the prophet inquiring of me by him: I the Lord will answer him according to the multitude of his uncleannesses:

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Isaiah 66:4, Ezekiel 14:7, Isaiah 66:4, Ezekiel 14:7, Isaiah 3:11

5That the house of Israel may be caught in their own heart, with which they have departed from me through all their idols.

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Isaiah 1:4, Isaiah 1:4, Zechariah 11:8, Zechariah 11:8, Romans 1:30

6Therefore say to the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord God: Be converted, and depart from your idols, and turn away your faces from all your abominations.

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Ezekiel 18:30, Ezekiel 18:30, Isaiah 2:20, Isaiah 30:22, Isaiah 2:20

7For every man of the house of Israel, and every stranger among the proselytes in Israel, if he separate himself from me, and place his idols in his heart, and set the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and come to the prophet to inquire of me by him: I the Lord will answer him by myself.

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Exodus 12:48, Exodus 12:48, Isaiah 58:1, Isaiah 58:2, Isaiah 58:1

8And I will set my face against that man, and will make him an example, and a proverb, and will cut him off from the midst of my people: and you shall know that I am the Lord.

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Ezekiel 15:7, Ezekiel 15:7, Ezekiel 5:15, Jeremiah 44:11, Ezekiel 5:15

9And when the prophet shall err, and speak a word: I the Lord have deceived that prophet: and I will stretch forth my hand upon him, and will cut him off from the midst of my people Israel.

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Jeremiah 4:10, Ezekiel 20:25, Jeremiah 4:10, Ezekiel 20:25, Isaiah 66:4

10And they shall bear their iniquity: according to the iniquity of him that inquireth, so shall the iniquity of the prophet be.

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Ezekiel 23:49, Ezekiel 23:49, Ezekiel 17:18, Ezekiel 17:20, Genesis 4:13

11That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, nor be polluted with all their transgressions: but may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord of hosts.

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Ezekiel 37:23, Ezekiel 37:23, Ezekiel 48:11, Ezekiel 44:10, Ezekiel 48:11

12And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

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13Son of man, when a land shall sin against me, so as to transgress grievously, I will stretch forth my hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof: and I will send famine upon it, and will destroy man and beast out of it.

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Leviticus 26:26, Ezekiel 4:16, Leviticus 26:26, Ezekiel 4:16, Ezekiel 15:8

14And if these three men, Noe, Daniel, and Job, shall be in it: they shall deliver their own souls by their justice, saith the Lord of hosts.

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Jeremiah 15:1, Ezekiel 14:20, Jeremiah 15:1, Ezekiel 14:20, Ezekiel 28:3

15And if I shall bring mischievous beasts also upon the land to waste it, and it be desolate, so that there is none that can pass because of the beasts:

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Ezekiel 5:17, Leviticus 26:22, Ezekiel 5:17, Leviticus 26:22, Jeremiah 15:3

16If these three men shall be in it, as I live, saith the Lord, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters: but they only shall be delivered, and the land shall be made desolate.

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Genesis 19:29, Genesis 19:29, James 5:16, Ezekiel 33:11, Job 22:20

17Or if I bring the sword upon that land, and say to the sword: Pass through the land: and I destroy man and beast out of it:

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Leviticus 26:25, Ezekiel 21:3, Ezekiel 21:4, Leviticus 26:25, Ezekiel 21:3

18And these three men be in the midst thereof: as I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they themselves alone shall be delivered.

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19Or if I also send the pestilence upon that land, and pour out my indignation upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:

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Ezekiel 38:22, Ezekiel 38:22, Ezekiel 7:8, 2 Samuel 24:15, Jeremiah 14:12

20And Noe, and Daniel, and Job be in the midst thereof: as I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter: but they shall only deliver their own souls by their justice.

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Ezekiel 14:14, Ezekiel 14:14, Acts 10:35, Psalms 33:18, Psalms 33:19

21For thus saith the Lord: Although I shall send in upon Jerusalem my four grievous judgments, the sword, and the famine, and the mischievous beasts, and the pestilence, to destroy out of it man and beast,

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Ezekiel 33:27, Ezekiel 5:17, Ezekiel 33:27, Ezekiel 5:17, Ezekiel 14:15

22Yet there shall be left in it some that shall be saved, who shall bring away their sons and daughters: behold they shall come among you, and you shall see their way, and their doings: and you shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, in all things that I have brought upon it.

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Ezekiel 12:16, Ezekiel 12:16, Ezekiel 20:43, Ezekiel 20:43, Hebrews 12:6

23And they shall comfort you, when you shall see their ways, and their doings: and you shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord God.

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Jeremiah 22:8, Jeremiah 22:9, Jeremiah 22:8, Jeremiah 22:9, Daniel 9:7