Making Unclean Bread

⁹ “Now as for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and ^(A)spelt; set them in one vessel and make them into bread for yourself; you shall eat it according to the number of the days that you lie on your side, 390 days. ¹⁰ And your food which you eat shall be ^[a](B)twenty shekels a day by weight; you shall eat it from time to time. ¹¹ The water you drink shall be the sixth part of a ^[b]hin by measure; you shall drink it from time to time. ¹² You shall eat it as a barley cake, having baked it in their sight over human ^(C)dung.” ¹³ Then Yahweh said, “Thus will the sons of Israel eat their bread ^(D)unclean among the nations where I will banish them.” ¹⁴ But I said, “^(E)Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, I have ^(F)never been defiled; for from my youth until now I have never eaten what ^(G)died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has any ^(H)offensive meat ever entered my mouth.” ¹⁵ Then He said to me, “See, I will set for you cow’s dung in place of human dung over which you will prepare your bread.” ¹⁶ Moreover, He said to me, “Son of man, behold, I am going to ^(I)break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by ^(J)weight and with anxiety, and they will drink water by ^(K)measure and in desolation ¹⁷ because bread and water will be lacking; and they will be in desolation with one another and ^(L)rot away in their iniquity.