“And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and emmer,[a] and put them into a single vessel and make your (A)bread from them. (B)During the number of days that you lie on your side, (C)390 days, you shall eat it. 10 And your food that you eat shall be (D)by weight, (E)twenty shekels[b] a day; from day to day[c] you shall eat it. 11 And water you shall drink (F)by measure, the sixth part of a hin;[d] from day to day you shall drink. 12 And you shall eat it as a barley cake, baking it (G)in their sight on human dung.” 13 And the Lord said, “Thus shall the people of Israel eat (H)their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.” 14 Then I said, (I)“Ah, Lord God! Behold, I have never defiled myself.[e] (J)From my youth up till now I have never eaten (K)what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has (L)tainted meat come into my mouth.” 15 Then he said to me, “See, I assign to you cow's dung instead of human dung, on which you may prepare your bread.” 16 Moreover, he said to me, (M)“Son of man, behold, (N)I will break the supply[f] of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread (O)by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water (P)by measure and in dismay. 17 I will do this that they may lack bread and water, and (Q)look at one another in dismay, and (R)rot away because of their punishment.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 4:9 A type of wheat
  2. Ezekiel 4:10 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
  3. Ezekiel 4:10 Or at a set time daily; also verse 11
  4. Ezekiel 4:11 A hin was about 4 quarts or 3.5 liters
  5. Ezekiel 4:14 Hebrew my soul (or throat) has never been made unclean
  6. Ezekiel 4:16 Hebrew staff

“And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt, and put them into a single vessel, and make bread of them. During the number of days that you lie upon your side, three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat it. 10 And the food which you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; once a day you shall eat it. 11 And water you shall drink by measure, the sixth part of a hin; once a day you shall drink. 12 And you shall eat it as a barley cake, baking it in their sight on human dung.” 13 And the Lord said, “Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations whither I will drive them.” 14 Then I said, “Ah Lord God! behold, I have never defiled myself; from my youth up till now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has foul flesh come into my mouth.” 15 Then he said to me, “See, I will let you have cow’s dung instead of human dung, on which you may prepare your bread.” 16 Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem; they shall eat bread by weight and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay. 17 I will do this that they may lack bread and water, and look at one another in dismay, and waste away under their punishment.

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