Ezekiel 24:7-9

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⁷Jerusalem is like a pot with rust on it.
    This is because the blood from the murders is still there!
She put the blood on the bare rock.
    She did not pour the blood on the ground and cover it with dirt.^[a]
⁸I put her blood on the bare rock
    so that it would not be covered.
I did this so that people would become angry
    and punish her for killing innocent people.

⁹“‘So this is what the Lord God says:
It will be bad for that city of murderers!
I will pile up plenty of wood for the fire.

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Footnotes

Ezekiel 24:7 blood … dirt The Law of Moses teaches that whoever killed an animal for food must pour the blood on the ground and cover it with dirt. This showed that they were giving the life of that animal back to God. See Lev. 17:1-16 and Deut. 12:1-25. If the blood was not covered with dirt, it was a witness against the killer. See Gen. 4:10, Job 15:18, and Isa. 26:21.