Ezek 4
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You also, son of man, take you a tile, and lay it before you, and portray upon it
a city, even Jerusalem:
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and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against
it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it round about.
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And take you to you an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the
city: and set your face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege
against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
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Moreover lie you upon your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel
upon it; [according to] the number of the days that you shall lie upon it, you shall
bear their iniquity.
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For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be to you a number of days, even
three hundred and ninety days: so shall you bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
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And again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and
shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty days, each day for a year, have
I appointed it to you.
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And you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered;
and you shall prophesy against it.
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And, behold, I lay bands upon you, and you shall not turn you from one side to the
other, till you have accomplished the days of your siege.
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Take you also to you wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt,
and put them in one vessel, and make you bread thereof; [according to] the number
of the days that you shall lie upon your side, even three hundred and ninety days,
shall you eat thereof.
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And your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time
to time shall you eat it.
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And you shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shall
you drink.
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And you shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung
that comes out of man.
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And YHWH said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among
the nations where I will drive them.
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Then said I, Ah Lord YHWH! behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth
up even till now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of beasts;
neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
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Then he said to me, See, I have given you cow`s dung for man`s dung, and you shall
prepare your bread thereon.
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Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem:
and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water
by measure, and in dismay:
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that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away
in their iniquity.