1. On the tenth day of the fifth month of the seventh year, some of the elders of Israel came to seek Adonai. They sat before me.
2. The word of Adonai came to me saying:
3. “Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel. Say to them, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘Have you come to inquire of Me? As I live’—it is a declaration of Adonai—‘I will not be inquired of by you.’
4. “Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Make them know the detestable practices of their fathers.
5. Say to them, thus says Adonai Elohim: On the day I chose Israel, I lifted up My hand to the seed of the house of Jacob and made Myself known to them in the land of Egypt. I lifted up My hand to them saying, ‘I am Adonai your God.’