12Eat the food as you would a barley cake; bake it in the sight of the people, using human excrement for fuel."


In Context

9 "Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side.

10 Weigh out twenty shekels of food to eat each day and eat it at set times.

11 Also measure out a sixth of a hin of water and drink it at set times.

12 Eat the food as you would a barley cake; bake it in the sight of the people, using human excrement for fuel."

13 The LORD said, "In this way the people of Israel will eat defiled food among the nations where I will drive them."

14 Then I said, "Not so, Sovereign LORD ! I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have never eaten anything found dead or torn by wild animals. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth."

Ezekiel 4:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:12And thou shalt eat it [as] barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:12And 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:12And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:12And thou shalt eat it as barley-cake, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:12And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:12And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with human excrement in their sight.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:12You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:12A barley-cake thou dost eat it, and it with dung — the filth of man — thou dost bake before their eyes.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:12And you shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it with dung that comes out of man, in their sight.