Ezekiel 4:9 - 4:17 ...the truth behind the bread...

[Guest guest]

I found this amusing...I personally like sprouted bread but actually

checked the bible one day and found much more than I bargained for. I

thought some of you might be interested. All of ezekiel is pretty

mind boggling after reading it...

4:9 " Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put

them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are

to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side. 10 Weigh out

twenty shekels [a] of food to eat each day and eat it at set times. 11

Also measure out a sixth of a hin of water and drink it at set

times. 12 Eat the food as you would a barley cake; bake it in the

sight of the people, using human excrement for fuel. " 13 The LORD

said, " In this way the people of Israel will eat defiled food among

the nations where I will drive them. "

14 Then I said, " Not so, Sovereign LORD! I have never defiled myself.

From my youth until now I have never eaten anything found dead or torn

by wild animals. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth. "

15 " Very well, " he said, " I will let you bake your bread over cow

manure instead of human excrement. "

16 He then said to me: " Son of man, I will cut off the supply of food

in Jerusalem. The people will eat rationed food in anxiety and drink

rationed water in despair, 17 for food and water will be scarce. They

will be appalled at the sight of each other and will waste away

because of [c] their sin.

Footnotes:

a. Ezekiel 4:10 That is, about 8 ounces (about 0.2 kilogram)

b. Ezekiel 4:11 That is, about 2/3 quart (about 0.6 liter)

c. Ezekiel 4:17 Or away in