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Ezekiel addresses women beside cloth bands, folded veils, barley, and bread.
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Ezekiel 13:17-19

Bands and borrowed authority

False Peace and Lives Set Free · Ezekiel 13

Story guide: The women are representative unnamed figures. Cloth props are an interpretation, not a reconstruction of certain ritual details.

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17And you, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people who prophesy out of their own hearts, and prophesy against them.

18And say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the women who sew magic bands on every wrist and make veils for the head of persons of every height, to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of my people and keep your own souls alive?

19And you have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, putting to death persons who should not die and keeping alive persons who should not live, by your lying to my people, who listen to lies.

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