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Ezekiel 4:9-17
Lexham English Bible

Ezekiel’s Strange Defiled Meal

9 “And you, take for yourself[a] wheat and barley and beans and lentils and millet[b] and spelt, and you must put them in one vessel, and you must make them for yourself[c] into a food during the number of days that you are lying on your side; three hundred and ninety days you shall eat it. 10 And your food that you will eat[d] will be according to weight; twenty shekels for each day at fixed times[e] you shall eat it. 11 And an amount of water[f] you shall drink, a sixth of a hin; at fixed times[g] you shall drink it. 12 And as a bread-cake of barley you shall eat it, and with human excrement[h] you shall bake it before their eyes.” 13 And Yahweh said, “Thus shall the Israelites[i] eat their unclean food among the nations where I will scatter them.”[j] 14 And I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Look! I have not been defiling myself, and a dead body and mangled carcass I have not eaten from my childhood until now, and unclean meat[k] has not come into my mouth!” 15 And he said to me, “See I will give you cattle manure[l] in the place of the feces of a human, and you may prepare your food on it.” 16 And he said to me, “Son of man,[m] look, I am going to break the supply[n] of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight, anxiously,[o] and rationed water,[p] and they will drink with horror, 17 so that they will lack food and water, and they will be appalled with one another,[q] and they will waste away because of their guilt.[r]

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  1. Ezekiel 4:9 Hebrew “you”
  2. Ezekiel 4:9 Or “sorghum”
  3. Ezekiel 4:9 Hebrew “you”
  4. Ezekiel 4:10 Hebrew “will eat it”
  5. Ezekiel 4:10 Literally “from time to time”
  6. Ezekiel 4:11 Literally “water by amount”
  7. Ezekiel 4:11 Literally “from time to time”
  8. Ezekiel 4:12 Literally “with human dung of the excrement of the human”
  9. Ezekiel 4:13 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  10. Ezekiel 4:13 Literally “which I will scatter them there”
  11. Ezekiel 4:14 Literally “flesh of unclean meat”
  12. Ezekiel 4:15 Literally “the manure of cattle”
  13. Ezekiel 4:16 Or “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
  14. Ezekiel 4:16 Literally “staff”
  15. Ezekiel 4:16 Literally “and with worry”
  16. Ezekiel 4:16 Literally “and water by amount”
  17. Ezekiel 4:17 Literally “a man and his brother”
  18. Ezekiel 4:17 Or “punishment”
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