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Set your face toward it and put it under siege. So you must lay siege to it as a sign for the house of Israel.<a id="ren33004003-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en33004003-a">a</a> <span id="v33004004" class="ver">4</span>Then lie down on your left side, while I place the guilt of the house of Israel upon you. As many days as you lie like this, you shall bear their guilt. <span id="v33004005" class="ver">5</span>I allot you three hundred and ninety days<a id="rfn33004005-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn33004005-1">*</a> during which you must bear the guilt of the house of Israel, the same number of years they sinned. <span id="v33004006" class="ver">6</span>When you have completed this, you shall lie down a second time, on your right side to bear the guilt of the house of Judah forty days; I allot you one day for each year.<a id="ren33004006-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en33004006-b">b</a> <span id="v33004007" class="ver">7</span>Turning your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with bared arm<a id="rfn33004007-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn33004007-1">*</a> you shall prophesy against it. <span id="v33004008" class="ver">8</span>See, I bind you with ropes so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have completed the days of your siege.<a id="ren33004008-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en33004008-c">c</a></p> <p><span id="v33004009" class="ver">9</span><a id="rfn33004009-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn33004009-1">*</a> Then take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them into a single pot and make them into bread. Eat it for as many days as you lie upon your side, three hundred and ninety days. <span id="v33004010" class="ver">10</span>The food you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; each day you shall eat it. <span id="v33004011" class="ver">11</span>And the water you drink shall be the sixth of a hin<a id="rfn33004011-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn33004011-1">*</a> by measure; each day you shall drink it. <span id="v33004012" class="ver">12</span>And the barley cake you eat you must bake on human excrement in the sight of all. <span id="v33004013" class="ver">13</span>The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> said: Thus the Israelites shall eat their food, unclean, among the nations where I drive them.<a id="ren33004013-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en33004013-d">d</a> <span id="v33004014" class="ver">14</span>“Oh no, Lord <span class="tetr">God</span>,” I protested. “Never have I defiled myself nor have I eaten carrion flesh or flesh torn by wild beasts, nor from my youth till now has any unclean meat entered my mouth.”<a id="ren33004014-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en33004014-e">e</a> <span id="v33004015" class="ver">15</span>Very well, he replied, I will let you use cow manure in place of human dung. You can bake your bread on that. <span id="v33004016" class="ver">16</span>Then he said to me: Son of man, I am about to break the staff of bread<a id="rfn33004016-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn33004016-1">*</a> in Jerusalem so they shall eat bread which they have weighed out anxiously and drink water which they have measured out fearfully.<a id="ren33004016-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en33004016-f">f</a> <span id="v33004017" class="ver">17</span>Because they lack bread and water they shall be devastated; each and every one will waste away because of their guilt.<a id="ren33004017-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en33004017-g">g</a></p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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