18 “In those days they will walk, the house of Judah alongside* the house of Israel,+ and together+ they will come out of the land of the north into the land that I gave as a hereditary possession to YOUR* forefathers.+

16 “And as for you, O son of man, take for yourself a stick+ and write upon it, ‘For Judah and for the sons of Israel his partners.’*+ And take another stick and write upon it, ‘For Joseph, the stick of Eʹphra·im,+ and all the house of Israel his partners.’+

10 “And the number of the sons of Israel must become like the grains of the sand of the sea that cannot be measured or numbered.+ And it must occur that in the place in which it used to be said to them, ‘YOU men are not my people,’+ it will be said to them, ‘The sons of the living God.’*+