1   The hand of our Lord was made vpon me, and brought me forth in the spirite of our Lord: and left me in the middes of a filde, that was ful of bones.

2   And he led me about through them on euerie side: & there were verie manie vpon the face of the filde, and exceeding drie.

3   And he sayd to me: Sonne of man, thinkest thou these bones shal liue?

And I sayd,: Lord God, thou knowest.

4   And he sayd to me: Prophecie of these bones: and thou shalt say to them: Drie bones heare ye the word of our Lord.

5   Thus saith our Lord God to these bones: Behold ^note I wil put spirite into you, and you shal liue.

6   And I wil geue sinowes vpon you, and wil make flesh to grow vp ouer you, and wil strech a skine on you: and I wil geue you spirite, and you shal liue, & you shal know that I am the Lord.

7   And I prophecied as he had commanded me: and there was made a sound when I prophecied, and behold a commotion: and bones came to bones, euerie one to his iuncture.

8   And I saw, and behold vpon them sinowes, and flesh was growen vp: and a skinne was streched out in them aboue, and they had noe spirite.

9   And he sayd to me: Prophecie to the spirite, prophecie sonne of man, & thou shalt say to the spirite: Thus saith our Lord God: Come spirite from the foure windes, and blow vpon these slaine, and let them be reuiued.

10   And I prophecied as he had commanded me: & spirit entered into them, & they liued: & they stood vpon their feete, an armie passing great.

11   And he sayd to me: Sonne of man: Al these bones, are the house of Israel: They say: our ^note bones are withered, ^note our hope is perished, and we ^note are cut of.

12   Therfore prophecie, and thou shalt say to them: Thus sayth our Lord God: ^note Behold I wil open your graues, and wil bring you out of your sepulchers ô my people: and wil bring you into the land of Israel.

13   And you shal know that I am the Lord, when I shal haue opened your sepulchres, and shal haue brought you out of your graues ô my people:

14   and shal haue geuen my spirite in you, and you shal liue, and I shal make you rest vpon your ground: & you shal know that I the Lord haue spoken, and done it, saith our Lord God:

15   And the word of our Lord was made to me, saying:

16   And thou sonne of man, take thee one peece of wood: and write vpon it: Of Iuda, and of the children of Israel his felowes: and take an other peece of wood, and write vpon it: Of Ioseph the wood of Ephraim, and of al the house of Israel, and of his felowes.

17   And ^note ioyne them, one to the other for thee into one peece of wood, and they shal be into an vnion in thy hand.

18   And when the children of thy people shal say to thee speaking: Doest thou not declare vnto vs what thou meanest by these?

19   Thou shalt speake to them: Thus saith our Lord God: Behold I wil take the peece of wood of Ioseph, which is in the

hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, that are adioyned to him: and I wil geue them together with the peece of wood of Iuda, and wil make them into one peece of wood: and they shal be one in his hand.

20   And the peeces of wood wherupon thou shalt write, in thy hand, shal be before their eyes.

21   And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith our Lord God: Behold I wil take the children of Israel out of the middes of the nations, to which they are gone: and I wil gather them together on euerie side, and wil bring them to their ground.

22   And I wil make them into one nation in the land on the mountaines of Israel, & there shal be one king ruling ouer them al: and they shal no more be two nations, neither shal they be diuided any more into two kingdoms.

23   Neither shal they be polluted any more in their idols, & their abominations, and al their iniquities: and I wil saue them out of al the seates, in which they haue sinned, & I wil clense them: and they shal be my people, and I wil be their God.

24   And my seruant Dauid king ouer them, and there shal be ^note one pastour of them al, they shal walke in my iudgements, and shal keepe my commandments, and shal doe them.

25   And they shal dwel vpon the land, which I gaue to my seruant Iacob, wherin your fathers dwelt, and they shal dwel vpon it, themselues, and their children, and their childrens children, euen for euer: and Dauid my seruant their prince for euer,

26   And I wil make a league of peace to them an euerlasting couenat shal be to them: and I wil found them, and wil multiplie them, and wil geue my sanctification in the middes of them for euer.

27   And my tabernacle shal be in them: and I wil be their God, and they shal be my people.

28   And the Gentils shal know that I am the Lord the sanctifier of Israel, when my sanctification shal be in the middes of them for euer.

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