“It came to pass in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the LORD’s word came to me, saying,”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Ezekiel 29 contains 21 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.