^{1 Ref} The hand of the Lord had been on me, and he took me out in the spirit of the Lord and put me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones;

^{2 Ref} And he made me go past them round about: and I saw that there was a very great number of them on the face of the wide valley, and they were very dry.

^{3 Ref} And he said to me, Son of man, is it possible for these bones to come to life? And I made answer, and said, It is for you to say, O Lord.

^{4 Ref} And again he said to me, Be a prophet to these bones, and say to them, O you dry bones, give ear to the word of the Lord.