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Ezekiel 4:13
And the Lord said, Even so the children of Israel will have unclean bread for their food among the nations where I am driving them.
Ezekiel 4:13 · Bible in Basic English
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Ezekiel 4:13 in other translations
And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.
Then the LORD said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their defiled bread among the nations to which I will banish them.”
The LORD said, “Even thus will the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.”
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In context
10 And you are to take your food by weight, twenty shekels a day: you are to take it at regular times.
11 And you are to take water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: you are to take it at regular times.
12 And let your food be barley cakes, cooking it before their eyes with the waste which comes out of a man.
13 And the Lord said, Even so the children of Israel will have unclean bread for their food among the nations where I am driving them.
14 Then I said, Ah, Lord! see, my soul has never been unclean, and I have never taken as my food anything which has come to a natural death or has been broken by beasts, from the time when I was young even till now; no disgusting flesh has ever come into my mouth.
15 Then he said to me, See, I have given you cow's waste in place of man's waste, and you will make your bread ready on it.
16 And he said to me, Son of man, see, I will take away from Jerusalem her necessary bread: they will take their bread by weight and with care, measuring out their drinking-water with fear and wonder:
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