Book 14 : NEVIIM - EZEKIEL - Chapter 004
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Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before
thee, and trace upon it a city, even Jerusalem
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and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and
cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and set battering rams
against it round about
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And take thou unto thee an iron griddle, and set it for a
wall of iron between thee and the city; and set thy face toward it, and it shall
be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the
house of Israel
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Moreover lie thou upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity
of the house of Israel upon it; according to the number of the days that thou
shalt lie upon it, thou shalt bear their iniquity
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For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be unto
thee a number of days, even three hundred and ninety days; so shalt thou bear
the iniquity of the house of Israel
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And again, when thou hast accomplished these, thou shalt
lie on thy right side, and shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah; forty
days, each day for a year, have I appointed it unto thee
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And thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem,
with thine arm uncovered; and thou shalt prophesy against it
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And, behold, I lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn
thee from one side to another, till thou hast accomplished the days of thy
siege
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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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Thou shalt drink also 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 HaShem 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 L-rd GOD! 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 abhorred 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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Moreover He said unto me: 'Son of man, behold, I will
break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they shall eat bread by weight, and
with anxiety; and they shall drink water by measure, and in appalment
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that they may want bread and water, and be appalled one
with another, and pine away in their iniquity
Book 14 : NEVIIM - EZEKIEL - Chapter 004
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