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Ezekiel 4

Ezekiel 4:9

The Defiled Bread · Ezekiel 4:9–17
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Translations

Modern
But take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side.
Traditional
Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, 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, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.
Literal
And you, take for yourself wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and give them into a single vessel, and make from them for yourself bread. The number of the days that you are laying down on your side—three hundred and ninety days—you shall eat it.
Latin
Et tu, sume tibi frumentum, et hordeum, et fabam, et lentem, et milium, et viciam: et mittes ea in vas unum, et facies tibi panes numero dierum quibus dormies super latus tuum: trecentis et nonaginta diebus comedes illud.

Original

Hebrew
English
But take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side.

Notes

Ezekiel 4:9–17

The near-starvation diet of eight ounces of food and a jar of water each day represents siege rations. This reflects a desperate situation where there was not enough of any one type of grain to make a whole loaf.

Ezekiel 4:1–7:27

These chapters discuss words and actions that warned of disaster for Jerusalem (Ezekiel 4–5) and the land of Judah (Ezekiel 6–7).

Theme notes and profiles

Prophetic Sign Acts The Gift of Prophecy

Events

Glossary

Agriculture Barley Bean Bread Ezekiel, Book of Fitch Lentil Millet Prophet, Prophetess Son of Man Spelt

Topics

Bean: General Scriptures Concerning Beans Bread: Made of Beans, Millet Diet and Nutrition Fitch: General Scriptures Concerning Health and Fitness Healthy Living Herbs: Millet Instruction by Object Lessons: Eating Bread Mixed with Dung Lentiles: General Scriptures Concerning Lentils Millet: General Scriptures Concerning Nutrition Prophets: Frequently in Their Actions Were Made Signs to the People Rye used to Make Bread Symbols and Similitudes: Ceremonially Unclean Food Symbols and Similitudes: Cooking