As for your birth, (A)on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing; you were not rubbed with salt or even wrapped in cloths. No eye looked with pity on you to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you. Rather you were thrown out into the [a](B)open field, [b]for you were abhorred on the day you were born.

“When I passed by you and saw you squirming in your blood, I said to you while you were in your blood, ‘Live!’ Yes, I said to you while you were in your blood, ‘Live!’

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 16:5 Lit face of the field
  2. Ezekiel 16:5 Lit in the loathing of your soul

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