Ezek 4
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And you, son of man, take you a brick, and you shall set it before your face, and
shall portray on it the city, even Jerusalem.
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And you shall besiege it, and build works against it, and throw up a mound round about
it, and pitch camps against it, and set up engines round about.
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And take you to yourself an iron pan, and you shall set it for an iron wall between
you and the city: and you shall set your face against it, and it shall be in a siege,
and you shall besiege it. This is a sign to the children of Israel.
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And you shall lie upon your left side, and lay the iniquities of the house of Israel
upon it, according to the number of the hundred and fifty days during which you shall
lie upon it: and you shall bear their iniquities.
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For I have appointed you their iniquities for a number of days, for a hundred and
ninety days: so you shall bear the iniquities of the house of Israel.
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And you shall accomplish Lit. these things this, and then shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquities of the
house of Juda forty days: I have appointed you a day for a year.
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So you shall set your face to the siege of Jerusalem, and shall strengthen your arm,
and shall prophesy against it.
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And, behold, I have prepared bonds for you, land you may not turn from your one side
to the other, until the days of your siege shall be accomplished.
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Take you also to you wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and Or, oats bread-corn; and you shall cast them
into one earthen vessel, and shall make them
into loaves for yourself; and you shall eat them a hundred and ninety days, according
to the number of the days during which you sleep on your side.
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And you shall eat your food by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shall
you eat them.
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And you shall drink water by measure, even from time to time you shall drink the sixth
part of a hin.
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And you shall eat them as a barley cake: you shall Lit. hide, whence egkrufiav, a cake bake them before their eyes in man’s
dung.
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And you shall say, Thus says the Lord God of Israel; Thus shall the children of Israel
eat unclean things among the Gentiles.
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Then I said, See Ac 10:14 Not so, Lord God of Israel: surely my soul has not been defiled with uncleanness;
nor have I eaten, that which died of itself or was torn of beasts from my birth until
now; neither has any corrupt flesh entered into my mouth.
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And he said to me, Behold, I have given you dung of oxen instead of man’s dung, and
you shall prepare your loaves upon it.
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And he said to me, Son of man, behold, I break the support of bread in Jerusalem:
and they shall eat bread by weight and in want; and shall drink water by measure,
and in a state of ruin:
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that they may want bread and water; and a man and his brother shall be brought to
ruin, and they shall pine away in their iniquities.