Ezekiel 24:5

The Parable of the Cooking Pot

4Put in the pieces of meat, every good piece— thigh and shoulder— fill it with choice bones. 5Take the choicest of the flock and pile the fuel beneath it. Bring it to a boil and cook the bones in it.’

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Berean Standard Bible
Take the choicest of the flock and pile the fuel beneath it. Bring it to a boil and cook the bones in it.’
American Standard Version (1901)
Take the choice of the flock, and also a pile of wood for the bones under the caldron; make it boil well; yea, let the bones thereof be boiled in the midst of it.
Bible in Basic English
Take the best of the flock, put much wood under it: see that its bits are boiling well; let the bones be cooked inside it.
Douay-Rheims 1899
Take the fattest of the flock, and lay together piles of bones under it: the seething thereof is boiling hot, and the bones thereof are thoroughly sodden in the midst of it.
Free Bible Version
Choose the best animal from the flock. Pile up the fuel underneath it. Get it boiling and cook the bones in it.
King James (Authorized) Version
Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein.
Translation for Translators
Pile wood on the fire, and cook the bones and the meat in the boiling water.’
Unlocked Literal Bible
Take the best of the flock and pile up the bones under it. Bring it to a boil and cook the bones in it.
Noah Webster Bible
Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them boil its bones in it.
World English Bible
Take the choice of the flock, and also a pile of wood for the bones under the cauldron. Make it boil well. Yes, let its bones be boiled within it.”
Young's Literal Translation
The choice of the flock to take, And also to pile of the bones under it, Boil it thoroughly, yea, cook its bones in its midst.