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Turn your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel. <A name="5"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then lie down on your left side and place the iniquity of the house of Israel upon yourself. You are to bear their iniquity for the number of days you lie on your side. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For I have assigned to you 390 days, according to the number of years of their iniquity. So you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. <A name="7"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>When you have completed these days, lie down again, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have assigned to you 40 days, a day for each year. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared, and prophesy against it. <A name="9"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Now behold, I will tie you up with ropes so you cannot turn from side to side until you have finished the days of your siege. <A name="10"></a><p class="hdg">The Defiled Bread<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>You are to weigh out twenty shekels of food<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> to eat each day, and you are to eat it at set times. <A name="12"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>You are also to measure out a sixth of a hin of water<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> to drink, and you are to drink it at set times. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And you shall eat the food as you would a barley cake, after you bake it over dried human excrement in the sight of the people.” <A name="14"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then the LORD said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their defiled bread among the nations to which I will banish them.” <A name="15"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I have never defiled myself.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> From my youth until now I have not eaten anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.” <A name="16"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“Look,” He replied, “I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you may bake your bread over that.” <A name="17"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled at the sight of one another wasting away in their iniquity.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <i>20 shekels</i><span class="thin"> </span> is approximately 8 ounces or 228 grams of food.<br><span class="fnverse">11</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <i>A sixth of a hin</i><span class="thin"> </span> is approximately 0.65 quarts or 0.61 liters of water.<br><span class="fnverse">14</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Hebrew <i>“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “Behold, my soul has never been made unclean.</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">16</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> Hebrew <i>staff</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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