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The linen-clothed recorder places a tiny ink daub on a grieving woman’s forehead.
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Ezekiel 9:3-4

A mark for those who grieve

The Mark and the Six Agents · Ezekiel 9

Story guide: The protective mark is an abstract ink daub, not a specific letter, cross, tattoo, or wound.

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3And the glory of the God of Israel went up from above the cherub on which it had been, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the scribe’s writing case at his waist.

4And Yahweh said to him, “Pass through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations being done in her midst.”

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