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11 You must measure the water that you drink each day. You may drink two cups at the same times each day. 12 Prepare your food like a cake that is made from barley. Bake it on a fire that you have made with human dung. Do this where the people can see you.’[a]

13 The Lord also said, ‘I will send Israel's people away to live in foreign lands. Then they will have to eat unclean food, as you will do now.’[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 4:12 Ezekiel did not bake the cake in an oven, but on hot stones. God told him to use human dung to make the fire to heat the stones. God's law said that would make the food unclean.
  2. 4:13 When God sent the Israelites away to live among foreign people, they would have to eat unclean food.