Ezekiel 29:11-13

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¹¹ No human foot shall pass through it, and no animal foot shall pass through it; it shall be uninhabited forty years.^{(A) 12} I will make the land of Egypt a desolation among desolated countries, and her cities shall be a desolation forty years among cities that are laid waste. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the countries.^(B)

¹³ Further, thus says the Lord God: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered,^(C)