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You are to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side. <a href="/nlt/ezekiel/4.htm">New Living Translation</a> “Now go and get some wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and emmer wheat, and mix them together in a storage jar. Use them to make bread for yourself during the 390 days you will be lying on your side. <a href="/esv/ezekiel/4.htm">English Standard Version</a> “And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and emmer, and put them into a single vessel and make your bread from them. During the number of days that you lie on your side, 390 days, you shall eat it. <a href="/bsb/ezekiel/4.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> 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 href="/kjv/ezekiel/4.htm">King James Bible</a> Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof. <a href="/nkjv/ezekiel/4.htm">New King James Version</a> “Also take for yourself wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them into one vessel, and make bread of them for yourself. During the number of days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat it. <a href="/nasb_/ezekiel/4.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> “But as for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel and make them into bread for yourself; you shall eat it according to the number of the days that you lie on your side, 390 days. <a href="/nasb/ezekiel/4.htm">NASB 1995</a> &#8220But as for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and spelt, put them in one vessel and make them into bread for yourself; you shall eat it according to the number of the days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days. <a href="/nasb77/ezekiel/4.htm">NASB 1977 </a> “But as for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and spelt, put them in one vessel and make them into bread for yourself; you shall eat it according to the number of the days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days. <a href="/lsb/ezekiel/4.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> “Now as for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; set them in one vessel and make them into bread for yourself; you shall eat it according to the number of the days that you lie on your side, 390 days. <a href="/amp/ezekiel/4.htm">Amplified Bible</a> “But as for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, and put them into one vessel and make them into bread for yourself. You shall eat it according to the number of the days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days. <a href="/csb/ezekiel/4.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> “Also take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt. Put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the number of days you lie on your side, 390 days. <a href="/hcsb/ezekiel/4.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> Also take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt. Put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the number of days you lie on your side, 390 days. <a href="/asv/ezekiel/4.htm">American Standard Version</a> Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof; according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, even three hundred and ninety days, shalt thou eat thereof. <a href="/cev/ezekiel/4.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> Get a large bowl. Then mix together wheat, barley, beans, lentils, and millet, and make some bread. This is what you will eat for the 390 days you are lying down. <a href="/erv/ezekiel/4.htm">English Revised Version</a> Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof; according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, even three hundred and ninety days, shalt thou eat thereof. <a href="/gwt/ezekiel/4.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> "Then take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and winter wheat. Put them in a container, and use them to make bread for yourself. Eat it during the 390 days that you are lying on your side. <a href="/gnt/ezekiel/4.htm">Good News Translation</a> "Now take some wheat, barley, beans, peas, millet, and spelt. Mix them all together and make bread. That is what you are to eat during the 390 days you are lying on your left side. <a href="/isv/ezekiel/4.htm">International Standard Version</a> "Furthermore, you are to take some wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, and mix them together in one container. Then you are to make bread from these grains sufficient to supply you through the time during which you'll be sleeping on your side. You are to eat it for 390 days. <a href="/msb/ezekiel/4.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> 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 href="/net/ezekiel/4.htm">NET Bible</a> "As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, put them in a single container, and make food from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side--390 days--you will eat it. <a href="/nheb/ezekiel/4.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> "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. <a href="/wbt/ezekiel/4.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> Take thou also to thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat of it. <a href="/web/ezekiel/4.htm">World English Bible</a> “Take for yourself also wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel. Make bread of it. According to the number of the days that you will lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days, you shall eat of it. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/ezekiel/4.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> And you, take for yourself wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and spelt, and you have put them in one vessel, and made them for bread for yourself; the number of the days that you are lying on your side—three hundred and ninety days—you eat it. <a href="/ylt/ezekiel/4.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> 'And thou, take to thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and spelt, and thou hast put them in one vessel, and made them to thee for bread; the number of the days that thou art lying on thy side -- three hundred and ninety days -- thou dost eat it. <a href="/slt/ezekiel/4.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And thou, take to thee wheat, and barley, and the bean, and lentiles, and millet, and spelt, and give them into one vessel, and make them to thee for bread, the number of days which thou didst lie upon thy side; three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat it.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/ezekiel/4.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> And take to thee wheat and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side: three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof. <a href="/cpdv/ezekiel/4.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> And you shall take for yourself wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and vetch. And you shall set them in one vessel, and you shall make for yourself bread by the number of days that you will sleep upon your side: three hundred and ninety days shall you shall eat from it. <a href="/nabre/ezekiel/4.htm">New American Bible</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. <a href="/nrsvce/ezekiel/4.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them into one vessel, and make bread for yourself. During the number of days that you lie on your side, three hundred ninety days, you shall eat it.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/ezekiel/4.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> And take for yourself wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and rye, and put them in one vessel, and make for yourself bread of them; according to the number of days that you shall lie upon your side, three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat of it. <a href="/hpbt/ezekiel/4.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> And take for yourself wheat and barley, and beans and lentils, and millet and rye, and put them in one vessel and make them bread for yourself for the number of days that you lay on your side; three hundred and ninety days you shall eat it<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/ezekiel/4.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof; according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, even three hundred and ninety days, shalt thou eat thereof. <a href="/sep/ezekiel/4.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> Take thou also to thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and bread-corn; and thou shalt cast them into one earthen vessel, and shalt make them into loaves for thyself; and thou shalt eat them a hundred and ninety days, according to the number of the days during which thou sleepest on thy side. <a href="/parallel/ezekiel/4-9.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vET3Gmwku4s?start=785" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/ezekiel/4.htm">The Defiled Bread</a> 9<a href="/hebrew/859.htm" title="859: wə·’at·tāh (Conj-w:: Pro-2ms) -- You (masc. sing.). "></a> <a href="/hebrew/3947.htm" title="3947: qaḥ- (V-Qal-Imp-ms) -- To take. A primitive root; to take.">But take</a> <a href="/hebrew/lə·ḵā (Prep:: 2ms) -- "></a> <a href="/hebrew/2406.htm" title="2406: ḥiṭ·ṭîn (N-fp) -- Wheat. Of uncertain derivation; wheat, whether the grain or the plant.">wheat,</a> <a href="/hebrew/8184.htm" title="8184: ū·śə·‘ō·rîm (Conj-w:: N-fp) -- Barley. Or snowrah; and; also s or; or s-owr; from sa'ar in the sense of roughness; barley.">barley,</a> <a href="/hebrew/6321.htm" title="6321: ū·p̄ō·wl (Conj-w:: N-ms) -- Beans. From an unused root meaning to be thick; a bean.">beans,</a> <a href="/hebrew/5742.htm" title="5742: wa·‘ă·ḏā·šîm (Conj-w:: N-mp) -- A lentil. From an unused root of uncertain meaning; a lentil.">lentils,</a> <a href="/hebrew/1764.htm" title="1764: wə·ḏō·ḥan (Conj-w:: N-ms) -- Millet. Of uncertain derivation; millet.">millet,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3698.htm" title="3698: wə·ḵus·sə·mîm (Conj-w:: N-fp) -- Spelt (a kind of wheat). From kacam; spelt.">and spelt;</a> <a href="/hebrew/5414.htm" title="5414: wə·nā·ṯat·tāh (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-2ms) -- To give, put, set. A primitive root; to give, used with greatest latitude of application.">put</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’ō·w·ṯām (DirObjM:: 3mp) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self.">them</a> <a href="/hebrew/259.htm" title="259: ’e·ḥāḏ (Number-ms) -- One. A numeral from 'achad; properly, united, i.e. One; or first.">in a single</a> <a href="/hebrew/3627.htm" title="3627: biḵ·lî (Prep-b:: N-ms) -- An article, utensil, vessel. From kalah; something prepared, i.e. Any apparatus.">container</a> <a href="/hebrew/6213.htm" title="6213: wə·‘ā·śî·ṯā (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-2ms) -- To do, make. A primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application.">and make</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’ō·w·ṯām (DirObjM:: 3mp) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self.">them</a> <a href="/hebrew/3899.htm" title="3899: lə·lā·ḥem (Prep-l:: N-ms) -- Bread, food. From lacham; food, especially bread, or grain.">into bread</a> <a href="/hebrew/lə·ḵā (Prep:: 2ms) -- ">for yourself.</a> <a href="/hebrew/398.htm" title="398: tō·ḵă·len·nū (V-Qal-Imperf-2ms:: 3mse) -- To eat. A primitive root; to eat.">This is what you are to eat</a> <a href="/hebrew/4557.htm" title="4557: mis·par (N-msc) -- Number, tally. From caphar; a number, definite or indefinite; also narration.">during the</a> <a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: hay·yā·mîm (Art:: N-mp) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative."></a> <a href="/hebrew/7969.htm" title="7969: šə·lōš- (Number-fsc) -- A three, triad. Or shalosh; masculine shlowshah; or shloshah; a primitive number; three; occasionally third, or Thrice.">390</a> <a href="/hebrew/3967.htm" title="3967: mê·’ō·wṯ (Number-fp) -- Hundred. Or metyah; properly, a primitive numeral; a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction."></a> <a href="/hebrew/8673.htm" title="8673: wə·ṯiš·‘îm (Conj-w:: Number-cp) -- Ninety. Multiple from tesha'; ninety."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: yō·wm (N-ms) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative.">days</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer- (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc."></a> <a href="/hebrew/859.htm" title="859: ’at·tāh (Pro-2ms) -- You (masc. sing.). "></a> <a href="/hebrew/7901.htm" title="7901: šō·w·ḵêḇ (V-Qal-Prtcpl-ms) -- To lie down. A primitive root; to lie down.">you lie</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al- (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">on</a> <a href="/hebrew/6654.htm" title="6654: ṣid·də·ḵā (N-msc:: 2ms) -- A side. Contr. From an unused root meaning to sidle off; a side; figuratively, an adversary.">your side.</a> 10You are to weigh out twenty shekels of food to eat each day, and you are to eat it at set times.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/genesis/1-29.htm">Genesis 1:29</a> Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food. <a href="/leviticus/26-26.htm">Leviticus 26:26</a> When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied. <a href="/deuteronomy/8-3.htm">Deuteronomy 8:3</a> He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. <a href="/1_kings/17-12.htm">1 Kings 17:12-16</a> But she replied, “As surely as the LORD your God lives, I have no bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. Look, I am gathering a couple of sticks to take home and prepare a meal for myself and my son, so that we may eat it and die.” / “Do not be afraid,” Elijah said to her. “Go and do as you have said. But first make me a small cake of bread from what you have, and bring it out to me. Afterward, make some for yourself and your son, / for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘The jar of flour will not be exhausted and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain upon the face of the earth.’” ... <a href="/2_kings/4-42.htm">2 Kings 4:42-44</a> Now a man from Baal-shalishah came to the man of God with a sack of twenty loaves of barley bread from the first ripe grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha. / But his servant asked, “How am I to set twenty loaves before a hundred men?” “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha, “for this is what the LORD says: ‘They will eat and have some left over.’” / So he set it before them, and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of the LORD. <a href="/isaiah/55-2.htm">Isaiah 55:2</a> Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of foods. <a href="/jeremiah/15-16.htm">Jeremiah 15:16</a> Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts. <a href="/lamentations/4-10.htm">Lamentations 4:10</a> The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people. <a href="/hosea/2-8.htm">Hosea 2:8</a> For she does not acknowledge that it was I who gave her grain, new wine, and oil, who lavished on her silver and gold—which they crafted for Baal. <a href="/joel/1-10.htm">Joel 1:10-12</a> The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails. / Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished. / The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple—all the trees of the orchard—are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up. <a href="/matthew/4-4.htm">Matthew 4:4</a> But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” <a href="/matthew/6-11.htm">Matthew 6:11</a> Give us this day our daily bread. <a href="/matthew/14-17.htm">Matthew 14:17-21</a> “We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered. / “Bring them here to Me,” Jesus said. / And He directed the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, He spoke a blessing. Then He broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. ... <a href="/mark/6-38.htm">Mark 6:38-44</a> “Go and see how many loaves you have,” He told them. And after checking, they said, “Five—and two fish.” / Then Jesus directed them to have the people sit in groups on the green grass. / So they sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties. ... <a href="/luke/4-4.htm">Luke 4:4</a> But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone.’”</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>Take you also to you wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make you bread thereof, according to the number of the days that you shall lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days shall you eat thereof.wheat<a href="/ezekiel/4-13.htm">Ezekiel 4:13,16</a> And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them… millet.fitches.three<a href="/ezekiel/4-5.htm">Ezekiel 4:5</a> For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/jeremiah/41-8.htm">Barley</a> <a href="/2_samuel/17-28.htm">Beans</a> <a href="/lamentations/5-9.htm">Bread</a> <a href="/ezekiel/3-3.htm">Eat</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-27.htm">Fitches</a> <a href="/ezekiel/4-5.htm">Hundred</a> <a href="/2_samuel/23-11.htm">Lentils</a> <a href="/ezekiel/4-5.htm">Ninety</a> <a href="/ezekiel/4-8.htm">Side</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-25.htm">Spelt</a> <a href="/ezekiel/1-15.htm">Thereof</a> <a href="/ezekiel/4-5.htm">Three</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-34.htm">Vessel</a> <a href="/jeremiah/41-8.htm">Wheat</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/ezekiel/4-12.htm">Barley</a> <a href="/2_samuel/17-28.htm">Beans</a> <a href="/ezekiel/4-13.htm">Bread</a> <a href="/ezekiel/4-10.htm">Eat</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-25.htm">Fitches</a> <a href="/ezekiel/40-19.htm">Hundred</a> <a href="/genesis/25-34.htm">Lentils</a> <a href="/ezekiel/41-12.htm">Ninety</a> <a href="/ezekiel/5-5.htm">Side</a> <a href="/exodus/9-32.htm">Spelt</a> <a href="/ezekiel/5-3.htm">Thereof</a> <a href="/ezekiel/14-14.htm">Three</a> <a href="/ezekiel/15-3.htm">Vessel</a> <a href="/ezekiel/27-17.htm">Wheat</a><div class="vheading2">Ezekiel 4</div>1. <a href="/ezekiel/4-1.htm">Under type of a siege is shown the time from the defection of Jeroboam to captivity</a> 9. <a href="/ezekiel/4-9.htm">By the provision of the siege, is shown the hardness of the famine</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/ezekiel/4.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/ezekiel/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/ezekiel/4.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>But take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; This phrase lists the ingredients for a unique bread that Ezekiel is instructed to make. Wheat and barley were common grains in ancient Israel, often used in daily sustenance. Beans and lentils were also staple foods, providing necessary protein. Millet and spelt, though less common, were known in the region. The combination of these ingredients suggests a time of scarcity, as they are mixed together rather than used separately, indicating a lack of abundance. This reflects the impending siege of Jerusalem, where food would be scarce, and people would have to make do with what was available.put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. The act of placing these ingredients in a single container symbolizes the coming together of various elements under duress. Bread, a staple of life, is here made from a mixture of grains and legumes, which would not typically be combined. This signifies the dire circumstances of the siege, where normal food preparation methods are abandoned. The personal instruction to Ezekiel to make this bread "for yourself" emphasizes the prophetic act he is performing, symbolizing the suffering and deprivation that the people of Jerusalem will experience.This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side. The 390 days represent the years of iniquity of the house of Israel, as Ezekiel is commanded to lie on his side for this period to bear their sin. This prophetic action is a vivid illustration of the burden of sin and the consequences that follow. The specific duration underscores the long period of rebellion against God. The act of lying on his side while eating this bread further symbolizes the hardship and judgment that will come upon the people. This period of time also connects to the broader narrative of Israel's history, where prolonged disobedience led to exile and suffering.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/e/ezekiel.htm">Ezekiel</a> A prophet called by God to deliver His messages to the Israelites during their Babylonian exile. Known for his symbolic actions and visions. 2. <a href="/topical/b/babylon.htm">Babylon</a> The place of exile for the Israelites, representing a period of judgment and reflection for the nation. 3. <a href="/topical/i/israel's_exile.htm">Israel's Exile</a> A significant event where the Israelites were taken captive by Babylon as a consequence of their disobedience to God. 4. <a href="/topical/s/symbolic_action.htm">Symbolic Action</a> Ezekiel's act of lying on his side and eating specific bread symbolizes the siege and suffering of Jerusalem. 5. <a href="/topical/3/390_days.htm">390 Days</a> Represents the years of Israel's sin and the duration of their punishment.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/s/symbolism_in_prophetic_actions.htm">Symbolism in Prophetic Actions</a> Ezekiel's actions serve as a visual prophecy, reminding us that God communicates in diverse ways. We should be attentive to how God might be speaking to us today. <a href="/topical/c/consequences_of_disobedience.htm">Consequences of Disobedience</a> The exile and Ezekiel's symbolic actions highlight the serious consequences of turning away from God. It calls us to examine our own lives for areas of disobedience. <a href="/topical/g/god's_provision_in_judgment.htm">God's Provision in Judgment</a> Even in judgment, God provides for His people, as seen in the specific ingredients for the bread. This reminds us of God's faithfulness and provision in our own trials. <a href="/topical/c/call_to_repentance.htm">Call to Repentance</a> The 390 days symbolize a call to repentance. We are encouraged to reflect on our actions and turn back to God, seeking His forgiveness and restoration. <a href="/topical/h/hope_beyond_judgment.htm">Hope Beyond Judgment</a> While Ezekiel's message includes judgment, it also points to hope and restoration. We are reminded that God's ultimate plan is for our redemption and reconciliation with Him.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_ezekiel_4.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Ezekiel 4</a> <a href="/q/was_ezekiel's_'siege_bread'_real.htm">Ezekiel 4:9–12: Is there any historical evidence that this specific type of “siege bread” was actually made and consumed in ancient times? </a> <a href="/q/what_foods_are_mentioned_in_the_bible.htm">What foods are mentioned in the Bible?</a> <a href="/q/why_no_extrabiblical_reaction_to_ezekiel_12.htm">If God intended Ezekiel’s symbolic actions in Ezekiel 12:6–7 to be a warning for all, why is there no extrabiblical evidence of widespread awareness or reaction? </a> <a href="/q/how_do_locusts_and_hail_plagues_align.htm">How does the destruction caused by the locusts (Exodus 10:15) align with the later plague of hail in Exodus 9, which supposedly ruined crops earlier?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/ezekiel/4.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(9) Take thou also unto thee wheat.--The grains enumerated are of all kinds from the best to the worst, indicating that every sort of food would be sought after in the straitness of the siege. If the mixing of these in one vessel and making bread of them all together was not against the exact letter of the law, it was, at least, a plain violation of its spirit (<a href="/leviticus/19-19.htm" title="You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle engender with a diverse kind: you shall not sow your field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woolen come on you.">Leviticus 19:19</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/22-9.htm" title="You shall not sow your vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of your seed which you have sown, and the fruit of your vineyard, be defiled.">Deuteronomy 22:9</a>), thus again indicating the stern necessity which should be laid upon the people.Three hundred and ninety days.--No mention is here made of the additional forty days. (See Excursus.)<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/ezekiel/4.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 9. - Take thou also unto thee, etc. The act implies, as I have said, that there were exceptions to the generally immovable attitude. The symbolism seems to have a twofold meaning. We can scarcely exclude a reference to the famine which accompanied the siege. On the other hand, one special feature of it is distinctly referred, not to the siege, but to the exile (ver. 13). Starting with the former, the prophet is told to make bread, not of wheat, the common food of the wealthier class (<a href="/deuteronomy/32-14.htm">Deuteronomy 32:14</a>; <a href="/psalms/81-16.htm">Psalm 81:16</a>; <a href="/psalms/147-14.htm">Psalm 147:14</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/12-13.htm">Jeremiah 12:13</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/41-8.htm">Jeremiah 41:8</a>), nor of barley, the chief food of the poor (<a href="/ezekiel/13-19.htm">Ezekiel 13:19</a>; <a href="/hosea/3-2.htm">Hosea 3:2</a>; <a href="/john/6-9.htm">John 6:9</a>), but of these mixed with beans (<a href="/2_samuel/17-28.htm">2 Samuel 17:28</a>), lentils (<a href="/2_samuel/17-28.htm">2 Samuel 17:28</a>; <a href="/genesis/25-34.htm">Genesis 25:34</a>) - then, as now, largely used in Egypt and other Eastern countries - millet (the Hebrew word is not found elsewhere), and fitches, i.e. vetches (here also the Hebrew word is found only in this passage, that so translated in <a href="/isaiah/28-25.htm">Isaiah 28:25-27</a> standing, it is said, for the seed of the black cummin). The outcome of this mixture would be a coarse, unpalatable bread, not unlike that to which the population of Paris was reduced in the siege of 1870-71. This was to be the prophet's food, as it was to be that of the people of Jerusalem during the 390 days by which that siege was symbolically, though not numerically, represented. It is not improbable, looking to the prohibition against mixtures of any kind in <a href="/deuteronomy/22-9.htm">Deuteronomy 22:9</a>, that it would be regarded as in itself unclean. <a href="/commentaries/ezekiel/4-9.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>But take קַח־ (qaḥ-) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3947.htm">Strong's 3947: </a> To take wheat, חִטִּ֡ין (ḥiṭ·ṭîn) Noun - feminine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2406.htm">Strong's 2406: </a> Wheat barley, וּ֠שְׂעֹרִים (ū·śə·‘ō·rîm) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8184.htm">Strong's 8184: </a> Barley beans, וּפ֨וֹל (ū·p̄ō·wl) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6321.htm">Strong's 6321: </a> A bean lentils, וַעֲדָשִׁ֜ים (wa·‘ă·ḏā·šîm) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5742.htm">Strong's 5742: </a> A lentil millet, וְדֹ֣חַן (wə·ḏō·ḥan) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1764.htm">Strong's 1764: </a> Millet and spelt; וְכֻסְּמִ֗ים (wə·ḵus·sə·mîm) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3698.htm">Strong's 3698: </a> Spelt (a kind of wheat) put וְנָתַתָּ֤ה (wə·nā·ṯat·tāh) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5414.htm">Strong's 5414: </a> To give, put, set them in a single אֶחָ֔ד (’e·ḥāḏ) Number - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_259.htm">Strong's 259: </a> United, one, first container בִּכְלִ֣י (biḵ·lî) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3627.htm">Strong's 3627: </a> Something prepared, any apparatus and make וְעָשִׂ֧יתָ (wə·‘ā·śî·ṯā) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6213.htm">Strong's 6213: </a> To do, make them into bread לְלָ֑חֶם (lə·lā·ḥem) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3899.htm">Strong's 3899: </a> Food, bread, grain for yourself. לְךָ֖ (lə·ḵā) Preposition | second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/.htm">Strong's Hebrew</a> [This is what] you are to eat תֹּאכֲלֶֽנּוּ׃ (tō·ḵă·len·nū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_398.htm">Strong's 398: </a> To eat during the מִסְפַּ֨ר (mis·par) Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4557.htm">Strong's 4557: </a> A number, definite, indefinite, narration 390 שְׁלֹשׁ־ (šə·lōš-) Number - feminine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7969.htm">Strong's 7969: </a> Three, third, thrice days י֖וֹם (yō·wm) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3117.htm">Strong's 3117: </a> A day that אֲשֶׁר־ (’ă·šer-) Pronoun - relative <a href="/hebrew/strongs_834.htm">Strong's 834: </a> Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that you lie שׁוֹכֵ֣ב (šō·w·ḵêḇ) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7901.htm">Strong's 7901: </a> To lie down on עַֽל־ (‘al-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> Above, over, upon, against your side. צִדְּךָ֗ (ṣid·də·ḵā) Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6654.htm">Strong's 6654: </a> A side, an adversary <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/ezekiel/4-9.htm">Ezekiel 4:9 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/ezekiel/4-9.htm">Ezekiel 4:9 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/ezekiel/4-9.htm">Ezekiel 4:9 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/ezekiel/4-9.htm">Ezekiel 4:9 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/ezekiel/4-9.htm">Ezekiel 4:9 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/ezekiel/4-9.htm">Ezekiel 4:9 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/ezekiel/4-9.htm">Ezekiel 4:9 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/ezekiel/4-9.htm">Ezekiel 4:9 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/ezekiel/4-9.htm">Ezekiel 4:9 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/ezekiel/4-9.htm">Ezekiel 4:9 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/ezekiel/4-9.htm">OT Prophets: Ezekiel 4:9 Take for yourself also wheat and barley (Ezek. 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