17 Groan silently; do (A)no mourning for the dead. Bind on your turban and put your sandals on your feet, and do not [a]cover your mustache, and (B)do not eat the [b]bread of other people.”

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 24:17 Covering the beard and mustache was a mourning custom
  2. Ezekiel 24:17 I.e., food from others for mourners

23 Your turbans will be on your heads, and your sandals on your feet. You (A)will not mourn and you will not weep; but (B)you will rot away in your guilty deeds, and you will groan [a]to one another.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 24:23 Lit each to his brother

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