Thomson(i)
16 Son of man, take thee a staff and write thereon, "Juda and the children of Israel who adhere to him" Then thou shalt take thee another staff and write thereon, "For Joseph the staff of Ephraim and all the children of Israel who adhere to him"
17 Then thou shalt join them one to the other to be bound together into one staff for thee, and they shall be in thy hand.
18 And when the children of thy people say to thee, Why dost thou not tell us, what thou meanest by these?
19 Then thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord, Behold I will take the tribe of Joseph which is administered by Ephraim and the tribes of Israel which adhere to him, and add them to the tribe of Juda, and they shall be one sceptre in the hand of Juda.
20 And while the staves on which thou hast written shall be in thy hand before them,
21 thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord, Lord, Behold I will take the whole house of Israel from among the nations, whither they went; and I will gather them from all those around them, and bring them to the land of Israel,
22 and make them a nation in my land even on the mountains of Israel. And there shall be one chief over them. And they shall no more be two nations; nor shall they any more be split into two kingdoms,