10. The food you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; each day you shall eat it.
11. And the water you drink shall be the sixth of a hin by measure; each day you shall drink it.
12. And the barley cake you eat you must bake on human excrement in the sight of all.
13. The Lord said: Thus the Israelites shall eat their food, unclean, among the nations where I drive them.
14. “Oh no, Lord God,” 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.”
15. Very well, he replied, I will let you use cow manure in place of human dung. You can bake your bread on that.
16. Then he said to me: Son of man, I am about to break the staff of bread in Jerusalem so they shall eat bread which they have weighed out anxiously and drink water which they have measured out fearfully.