¹⁹ Then say to them, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am taking the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel who are in his company; and I will put it on the stick of Judah and make them one stick, and they will be one in my hand.

¹⁶ And you, son of man, take one stick, writing on it, For Judah and for the children of Israel who are in his company: then take another stick, writing on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and all the children of Israel who are in his company:

¹⁷ Then, joining them one to another, make them one stick, so that they may be one in your hand.

⁶ And I will make the children of Judah strong, and I will be the saviour of the children of Joseph, and I will make them come back again, for I have had mercy on them: they will be as if I had not given them up: for I am the Lord their God and I will give them an answer.

¹ So all Israel was listed by their families; and, truly, they are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel. And Judah was taken away as prisoners to Babylon because of their sin.

² Now the first to take up their heritage in their towns were: Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim.

³ And in Jerusalem there were living some of the sons of Judah, and of Benjamin, and of Ephraim and Manasseh;

¹³ But now in Christ Jesus you who at one time were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

¹⁴ For he is our peace, who has made the two into one, and by whom the middle wall of division has been broken down,

¹¹ Where there is no Greek or Jew, no one with circumcision or without circumcision, no division between nations, no servant or free man: but Christ is all and in all.