Bread of Famine and Defilement

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Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof; according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, even three hundred and ninety days, shalt thou eat thereof.

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And thy food which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.

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And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.

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And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.

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And Jehovah said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations whither I will drive them.

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Then said I, Ah Lord Jehovah! behold, my soul hath not been polluted; for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn of beasts; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.

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Then he said unto me, See, I have given thee cow’s dung for man’s dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread thereon.

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