³ the ^(A)word of the Lord came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, son of Buzi, in the ^(B)land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and there ^(C)the hand of the Lord came upon him.)

²² Now the ^(A)hand of the Lord had been upon me in the evening, before the ^[a]refugees came. And He ^(B)opened my mouth ^[b]at the time they came to me in the morning; so my mouth was ^(C)opened and I was no longer ^[c]speechless.

Vision of the Man with a Measuring Rod

40 In the ^(A)twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the ^(B)city was ^[a]taken, on that same day the ^(C)hand of the Lord was upon me and He brought me there.