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Ezekiel 4:7-13 Good News Bible (GNB)

7. “Fix your eyes on the siege of Jerusalem. Shake your fist at the city and prophesy against it.

8. I will tie you up so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until the siege is over.

9. “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.

10. You will be allowed 230 grammes of bread a day, and it will have to last until the next day.

11. You will also have a limited amount of water to drink, two cups a day.

12. You are to build a fire out of dried human excrement, bake bread on the fire, and eat it where everyone can see you.”

13. The Lord said, “This represents the way the Israelites will have to eat food which the Law forbids, when I scatter them to foreign countries.”