¹The hand of the Lord was on me, and he led me out in the spirit of the Lord, and he set me down in the middle of a valley which was full of bones. ²And he conducted me to them all around, and I saw that they were very numerous over the surface of the valley, and I saw that they were very dry. ³And he said to me, “Son of Adam, can these bones live?” And I said, “My Lord the Lord, you know.” ⁴And he said to me, “Prophesy about these bones, and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. ⁵This is what my Lord the Lord says to these bones: «I am about to bring spirit into you, and you will live. ⁶And I will put sinews on you, and I will make flesh arise over you, and I will cover you with skin, and I will put spirit in you, and you will live, and you will know that I am the Lord.» ’ ” ⁷So I prophesied as I had been commanded. And there was a sound as I prophesied, and it was actually an earth tremor, and the bones came close to each other. ⁸And I looked and what I saw was sinews and flesh arise, and skin covering them from above, but there was no spirit in them. ⁹Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the spirit, prophesy, son of Adam, and say to the spirit, ‘This is what my Lord the Lord says: «Come, spirit, from the four winds, and breathe into these who have been killed, so that they live.» ’ ” ¹⁰So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the spirit came over them, and they revived, and they stood on their feet, as a very large host indeed. ¹¹Then he said to me, “Son of Adam, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dry, our hope is lost; we have got ourselves cut off.’ ¹²Therefore prophesy and say to them, ‘This is what my Lord the Lord says: «I am about to open your graves, and I will bring you up out of your graves, my people, and I will bring you to the land of Israel. ¹³And you will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and when I bring you up out of your graves, my people. ¹⁴And I will put my spirit in you, and you will live, and I will set you down on your land, and you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken and acted, says the Lord.» ’ ” ¹⁵Then the word of the Lord came to me and said, ¹⁶“And you, son of Adam, get yourself a piece of wood, and write on it, ‘For Judah and for the sons of Israel – those associated with him’, and take another piece of wood, and write on it, ‘For Joseph, Ephraim's piece of wood, and the whole house of Israel – those associated with him.’ ¹⁷And just join them one to another, into one piece of wood, so that they become a unity in your hand. ¹⁸And when the sons of your people speak to you and say, ‘Will you not tell us what these actions of yours mean?’, ¹⁹say to them, ‘This is what my Lord the Lord says: «I am about to take Joseph's piece of wood, which is in Ephraim's hand, and the tribes of Israel – those associated with him – and put them with this: with Judah's piece of wood, and I will make them into one piece of wood, and they will be one in my hand.» ’ ²⁰And the pieces of wood on which you write shall be held in your hand in their sight. ²¹Say to them, ‘This is what my Lord the Lord says: «I am about to take the sons of Israel from among the Gentiles where they went, and I will gather them from round about, and I will bring them to their land. ²²And I will make them into one nation in the land, in the mountains of Israel, and they will all have one king as king, and they will no longer be two nations, and they will no longer be divided into two kingdoms any more. ²³And they will no longer defile themselves with their idols and with their abominations and with all their transgressions, and I will save them from all their places of abode in which they have sinned, and I will cleanse them, and they will be my people, and I will be their God. ²⁴And my servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them, and they will walk in my judicial ways, and they will keep my statutes, and do them. ²⁵And they will live on the land which I gave to my servant Jacob, on which your fathers lived, and they and their sons and their sons' sons will live on it age-abidingly, and David my servant will be their prince age-abidingly. ²⁶And I will make a covenant of peace with them. It will be an age-abiding covenant with them, and I will settle them, and I will multiply them, and I will put my sanctuary in their midst age-abidingly. ²⁷And my tabernacle will be with them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people. ²⁸And the Gentiles will know that I am the Lord who sanctifies Israel when my sanctuary is among them age-abidingly.» ’ ”

Reference(s) in Chapter 37: v.27 ↔ 2 Corinthians 6:16.