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Ezekiel 9:4-6
New Catholic Bible
Ezekiel 9:4-6
New Catholic Bible
4 and he said to him: “Go throughout the city, throughout Jerusalem, and mark[a] with a cross the foreheads of all those who grieve and lament over all the abominable practices that run rampant throughout its boundaries.”
5 To the others I heard him say: “Follow him throughout the city and kill, without looking upon them with pity or showing them any mercy. 6 Cut down old men, young men and maidens, small children and women, but touch no one who is marked on the forehead with a cross. Begin at my sanctuary.” And so they began with the elders who were in front of the temple.
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- Ezekiel 9:4 The mark was a tau, that is, the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet; in ancient writing, tau was in the form of a cross.