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


In Context

9 Take for yourself also wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make bread of it; according to the number of the days that you shall lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days, you shall eat of it.

10 Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time you shall eat it.

11 You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time you shall drink.

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

13 Yahweh said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.

14 Then I said, Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals; neither came there abominable flesh into 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:12Eat the food as you would a barley cake; bake it in the sight of the people, using human excrement for fuel."

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 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.