Study it in the app“And you have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to put to death souls that should not die, and to keep alive souls that should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.”
And you have profanedוַתְּחַלֶּלְנָהmeאֹתִיamong my peopleאֶל עַמִּיfor handfulsבְּשַׁעֲלֵיof barleyשְׂעֹרִיםand for piecesוּבִפְתוֹתֵיof bread,לֶחֶםto put to deathלְהָמִיתsoulsנְפָשׁוֹתthatאֲשֶׁרshould notלֹאdie,תְמוּתֶנָהand to keep aliveוּלְחַיּוֹתsoulsנְפָשׁוֹתthatאֲשֶׁרshould notלֹאlive,תִחְיֶינָהby your lyingבְּכַזֶּבְכֶםto my peopleלְעַמִּיwho listenשֹׁמְעֵיto lies.כָזָב
profane
To treat what is holy as common.
Where else “techalelna” appearscrowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “ami” appearshandful, palm
The hollow of the hand and what fits in it: a handful.
Where else “shaale” appearsbarley
Barley.
Where else “seorim” appearspiece, morsel
Piece, morsel, bit of bread.
Where else “fetote” appearsbread
Food made of kneaded, baked flour: the basis of each day's meal.
Where else “lechem” appearskill
To kill someone.
Where else “hamit” appearslife
Life, when it is at stake.
Where else “nefashot” appearskeep alive
To make someone go on living, or rescue them from death.
Where else “chayot” appearslie
To say what is not true, or not to keep what was promised.
Where else “chazev” appearslisten
To pay close attention, or heed a plea.
Where else “shome” appearslie, falsehood
A lie, falsehood: what is said or sought and is not true; also something that deceives because it promises and does not deliver.
Where else “chazav” appears18and say, ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: Woe to the women who sew pads on all the wrists of my hands, and make the veils for the head of every stature to hunt souls! The souls of my people you hunt, and souls for yourselves you keep alive!
19 · This verse (above)
20Therefore thus says Adonai YHWH: Look, I am against your pads with which you hunt there the souls as birds that fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and I will set free the souls that you hunt, the souls, as birds that fly.
