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Ezekiel 3:5

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3:5For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech3 and difficult language,4 but5 to the house of Israel—

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Footnotes

  1. 3 Heb “deep of lip” (in the sense of incomprehensible).
  2. 4 Heb “heavy of tongue.” Similar language occurs in Exod 4:10; Isa 33:19.
  3. 5 The conjunction “but” is not in the Hebrew text, but is implied from the context.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

For you are not sent to a people of foreign speech and a hard language, but to the house of Israel—

NIVNew International Version (2011)

You are not being sent to a people of obscure speech and strange language, but to the people of Israel—

CSBChristian Standard Bible

For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech or a difficult language but to the house of Israel—

NLTNew Living Translation

I am not sending you to a foreign people whose language you cannot understand.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

For you are sent to the house of Israel, not to a people of obscure speech and of a difficult language,

KJV 1900King James Version

For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;