Ezekiel 24:4 “Put in the pieces of meat, every good piece— thigh and shoulder— fill…”

Ezekiel 24:4

Put in the pieces of meat, every good piece— thigh and shoulder— fill it with choice bones.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Gather its pieces into it, even every good piece: the thigh and the shoulder. Fill it with the choice bones.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Gather the pieces thereof into it, euen euery good piece, as the thigh and the shoulder, and fill it with the chiefe bones.

Darby Translation

Gather the pieces thereof into it, every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder; fill [it] with the choice bones:

Young's Literal Translation

To gather its pieces unto it, every good piece, Thigh and shoulder, the choice of the bones to fill in.

Bible in Basic English

And get the bits together, the fat tail, every good part, the leg and the top part of it: make it full of the best bones.

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Cross references

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

Ezekiel 22:18–22 Matthew 7:2 Micah 3:2 Micah 3:3

Ezekiel 22:18–22 · BSB

“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead inside the furnace; they are but the dross of silver.

Matthew 7:2 · BSB

For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

Micah 3:2 · BSB

You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.

Micah 3:3 · BSB

You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3Now speak a parable to this rebellious house and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Put the pot on the fire; put it on and pour in the water.

5Take the choicest of the flock and pile the fuel beneath it. Bring it to a boil and cook the bones in it.’

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