Ezekiel 4:12-14

Living Bible

¹² Each day take flour from the barrel and prepare it as you would barley cakes. While all the people are watching, bake it over a fire, using dried human dung as fuel, and eat it. ¹³ For the Lord declares, Israel shall eat defiled bread in the Gentile lands to which I exile them!”

¹⁴ Then I said, “O Lord God, must I be defiled by using dung? For I have never been defiled before in all my life. From the time I was a child until now I have never eaten any animal that died of sickness or that I found injured or dead; and I have never eaten any of the kinds of animals our law forbids.”^[a]