Ezekiel 37:15–22

¹⁵And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,^{n 16}“And you, son of man,^o take for yourself a piece of wood,^p and write on it, ‘For Judah and for the Israelites^q his associates,’ and take another piece of wood, and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the piece of wood of^r Ephraim and all of the house of Israel his associates.’ ¹⁷And join them one to the other with respect to you as one piece of wood, so that they may become one in your hand. ¹⁸When^s your people^t say to you, saying,^u ‘Will you not inform us as to what these actions mean for you?’ ¹⁹Then speak to them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Look! I am taking the piece of wood for Joseph that is in the hand of Ephraim and the tribes of Israel its associates, and I will put them on it, the piece of wood of Judah, and I will make them into one piece of wood, so that they be one in my hand.’ ” ²⁰And the pieces of wood on which you wrote will be in your hand before their eyes. ²¹And speak to them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Look! I am taking the Israelites^v from among the nations to which they went,^w and I will gather them from everywhere,^x and I will bring them to their own soil. ²²And I will make them into one nation in the land on the mountains of Israel, and they will all have one king as their king,^y and they^z will not again be two nations and will not again divide into two kingdoms again.