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Ezekiel 4:9

7 You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared, and prophesy against it.

8 Now behold, I will tie you up with ropes so you cannot turn from side to side until you have finished the days of your siege.

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.

10 You are to weigh out twenty shekels of food to eat each day, and you are to eat it at set times.

11 You are also to measure out a sixth of a hin of water to drink, and you are to drink it at set times.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
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.
KJV
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.
WEB
“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.
ASV
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.
DARBY
And thou, take 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 liest upon thy side: three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.
BLB
And you, take for yourself wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and give them into a single vessel, and make [from] them for yourself bread. The number of the days that you are laying down on your side—three hundred and ninety days—you shall eat it.
ÅB
Og ta deg så hvete og bygg og bønner og linser og hirse og spelt og legg dem i ett kar og bak deg brød av dem! I så mange dager som du ligger på din ene side, i tre hundre og nitti dager, skal du spise det.
OTB
“Ta hvete, bygg, bønner, linser, hirse og spelt; legg dem i en enkelt beholder og lag dem til brød for deg selv. Du skal spise det etter antall dager du ligger på din side, 390 dager.
B1930
Og ta dig så hvete og bygg og bønner og linser og hirse og spelt og legg dem i ett kar og bak dig brød av dem! I så mange dager som du ligger på din ene side, i tre hundre og nitti dager, skal du ete det.

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Cross references

  • Ezekiel 4:13

    Then the LORD said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their defiled bread among the nations to which I will banish them.”

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  • Isaiah 28:25

    When he has leveled its surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin? He plants wheat in rows and barley in plots, and rye within its border.

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  • Ezekiel 4:16

    Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure.

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