Bread of Famine and Defilement

Ezekiel 4:9-15

"Take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and buckwheat; put them together in one bowl; and make bread from it. For as long as you lie on your side, 390 days, this is what you are to eat.

Each day the food you eat must weigh only three-quarters of a pound; you may eat it from time to time [during the day].

You are also to drink a limited amount of water, two-thirds of a quart; you may drink it from time to time [during the day].

[The bread] you eat is to be baked like barley cakes; you are to bake it before their eyes, using human dung as fuel."

ADONAI said, "This is how the people of Isra'el will eat their food - unclean - in the nations where I am driving them."

I objected: "No, Adonai ELOHIM! I have never defiled myself - from my youth until now I have never eaten anything that died by itself or was killed by wild animals; no such disgusting food has ever entered my mouth."

He answered, "All right, I will give you cow dung to use instead of human dung, and you can prepare your bread on it."

Bread of Famine and Defilement

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