Ezekiel 4:13
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13 The Lord said, “Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread, unclean, among the nations to which I will drive them.”(A)
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Hosea 9:3-4
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3 They shall not remain in the land of the Lord,
but Ephraim shall return to Egypt,
and in Assyria they shall eat unclean food.(A)
4 They shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the Lord,
and their sacrifices shall not please him.
Such sacrifices shall be like mourners’ bread;
all who eat of it shall be defiled,
for their bread shall be for their hunger only;
it shall not come to the house of the Lord.(B)
Daniel 1:8
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8 But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the royal rations of food and wine, so he asked the palace master to allow him not to defile himself.(A)
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