Ezekiel 4:13-15

Good News Translation

¹³ The Lord said, “This represents the way the Israelites will have to eat food which the Law forbids,^[a] when I scatter them to foreign countries.”

¹⁴ But I replied, “No, Sovereign Lord! I have never defiled myself. From childhood on I have never eaten meat from any animal that died a natural death or was killed by wild animals. I have never eaten any food considered unclean.”

¹⁵ So God said, “Very well. I will let you use cow dung instead, and you can bake your bread on that.”