Ezekiel 4:9-17
Making Unclean Bread
9“Now as for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and aspelt; set them in one vessel and make them into bread for yourself; you shall eat it according to the number of the days that you lie on your side, 390 days. 10“And your food which you eat shall be 1,atwenty shekels a day by weight; you shall eat it from time to time. 11“The water you drink shall be the sixth part of a 1hin by measure; you shall drink it from time to time. 12“You shall eat it as a barley cake, having baked it in their sight over human adung.” 13Then Yahweh said, “Thus will the sons of Israel eat their bread aunclean among the nations where I will banish them.” 14But I said, “aAh, Lord Yahweh! Behold, I have bnever been defiled; for from my youth until now I have never eaten what cdied of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has any doffensive meat ever entered my mouth.” 15Then He said to me, “See, I will set for you cow’s dung in place of human dung over which you will prepare your bread.” 16Moreover, He said to me, “Son of man, behold, I am going to abreak the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by bweight and with anxiety, and they will drink water by cmeasure and in desolation 17because bread and water will be lacking; and they will be in desolation with one another and arot away in their iniquity.