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12 And as a bread-cake of barley you shall eat it, and with human excrement[a] you shall bake it before their eyes.” 13 And Yahweh said, “Thus shall the Israelites[b] eat their unclean food among the nations where I will scatter them.”[c] 14 And I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Look! I have not been defiling myself, and a dead body and mangled carcass I have not eaten from my childhood until now, and unclean meat[d] has not come into my mouth!”

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 4:12 Literally “with human dung of the excrement of the human”
  2. Ezekiel 4:13 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  3. Ezekiel 4:13 Literally “which I will scatter them there”
  4. Ezekiel 4:14 Literally “flesh of unclean meat”

12 Eat the food as you would a loaf of barley bread; bake it in the sight of the people, using human excrement(A) for fuel.” 13 The Lord said, “In this way the people of Israel will eat defiled food among the nations where I will drive them.”(B)

14 Then I said, “Not so, Sovereign Lord!(C) I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have never eaten anything found dead(D) or torn by wild animals. No impure meat has ever entered my mouth.(E)

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