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Ezekiel 4:12-14
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Ezekiel 4:12-14
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12 And you must eat the food as you would a barley cake. You must bake it in front of them over a fire made with dried human excrement.”[a] 13 And the Lord said, “This is how the people of Israel will eat their unclean food among the nations[b] where I will banish them.”
14 And I said, “Ah, Sovereign Lord, I have never been ceremonially defiled before. I have never eaten a carcass or an animal torn by wild beasts; from my youth up, unclean meat[c] has never entered my mouth.”
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- Ezekiel 4:12 sn Human waste was to remain outside the camp of the Israelites according to Deut 23:15.
- Ezekiel 4:13 sn Unclean food among the nations. Lands outside of Israel were considered unclean (Josh 22:19; Amos 7:17).
- Ezekiel 4:14 tn The Hebrew term refers to sacrificial meat not eaten by the appropriate time (Lev 7:18; 19:7).
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