Ezekiel 4:11-13

Contemporary English Version

¹¹and drink only two large cups of water. ¹²Use dried human waste to start a fire, then bake the bread on the coals where everyone can watch you. ¹³When I scatter the people of Israel among the nations, they will also have to eat food that is unclean, just as you must do.^[a]

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4.13 have to eat food that is unclean, just as you must do: The Lord had forbidden the people of Israel to mix certain things (see Deuteronomy 22.9-11), and so the people would not have been allowed to eat this bread under normal conditions. It is used here to show that when a city is under attack, people eat whatever food is left, even if the Lord had said it was unclean.