Ezekiel 4:12

And let your food be barley cakes, cooking it before their eyes with the waste which comes out of a man.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

11And you are to take water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: you are to take it at regular times.

13And the Lord said, Even so the children of Israel will have unclean bread for their food among the nations where I am driving them.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:6Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 4:10-17

The Representation of a Famine. ( b. c. 595.) 9 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. 10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it. 11 Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time… Read the whole commentary →

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