◄ Ezekiel 4:12 ►
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Good News Translation
You are to build a fire out of dried human excrement, bake bread on the fire, and eat it where everyone can see you."

New Revised Standard Version
You shall eat it as a barley-cake, baking it in their sight on human dung.

Contemporary English Version
Use dried human waste to start a fire, then bake the bread on the coals where everyone can watch you.

New American Bible
And the barley cake you eat you must bake on human excrement in the sight of all.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt eat it as barley bread baked under the ashes: and thou shalt cover it, in their sight, with the dung that cometh out of a man.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And thou shalt eat it as barley bread baked under the ashes: and thou shalt cover it, in their sight, with the dung that cometh out of a man.

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Context
The Defiled Bread
…11And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time thou shalt drink it, 12And thou shalt eat it as barley bread baked under the ashes: and thou shalt cover it, in their sight, with the dung that cometh out of a man.13And the Lord said: So shall the children of Israel eat their bread all filthy among the nations whither I will cast them out.…
Cross References
Genesis 19:3
He pressed them very much to turn in unto him: and when they were come into his house, he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate:

Isaiah 36:12
And Rabsaces said to them: Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee, to speak all these words; and not rather to the men that sit on the wall; that they may eat their own dung, and drink their urine with you?

Ezekiel 4:11
And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time thou shalt drink it,

Ezekiel 4:11
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