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Ezekiel 4:7-9
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

7 Turning your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with bared arm[a] you shall prophesy against it. 8 See, I bind you with ropes so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have completed the days of your siege.(A)

9 [b]Then take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them into a single pot and make them into bread. Eat it for as many days as you lie upon your side, three hundred and ninety days.

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Footnotes

  1. 4:7 Bared arm: a symbol of unrestrained power.
  2. 4:9–13 This action represents the scarcity of food during the siege of Jerusalem, and the consequent need to eat whatever is at hand. Twenty shekels: about nine ounces. The sixth of a hin: about one quart.
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