^{4 Ref} Yahweh said to him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done in the midst of it.

^{5 Ref} To the others he said in my hearing, Go you through the city after him, and strike: don't let your eye spare, neither have you pity;

^{6 Ref} kill utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but don't come near any man on whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house.