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Ezekiel 4:9-15 New English Translation (NET)

9. “As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, put them in a single container, and make food from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side – 390 days – you will eat it.

10. The food you eat will be eight ounces a day by weight; you must eat it at fixed times.

11. And you must drink water by measure, a pint and a half; you must drink it at fixed times.

12. And you must eat the food like you would a barley cake. You must bake it in front of them over a fire made with dried human excrement.”

13. And the Lord said, “This is how the people of Israel will eat their unclean food among the nations where I will banish them.”

14. And I said, “Ah, sovereign Lord, I have never been ceremonially defiled before. I have never eaten a carcass or an animal torn by wild beasts; from my youth up, unclean meat has never entered my mouth.”

15. So he said to me, “All right then, I will substitute cow’s manure instead of human excrement. You will cook your food over it.”

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