13. Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O My people, and brought you up from your graves.
14. I will put My Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken it and performed it,” says the Lord.’ ”
15. Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
16. “As for you, son of man, take a stick for yourself and write on it: ‘For Judah and for the children of Israel, his companions.’ Then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel, his companions.’
17. Then join them one to another for yourself into one stick, and they will become one in your hand.
18. “And when the children of your people speak to you, saying, ‘Will you not show us what you mean by these?’—