These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Ezekiel 4
Tanakh 17 verses
- 1 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and trace upon it a city, even ;
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and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.
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And take thou unto thee an iron griddle, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city; and set thy toward it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of .
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- 4 Moreover lie thou upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of upon it; according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it, thou shalt bear their iniquity.
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For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be unto thee a number of days, even three hundred and ninety days; so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of .
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And again, when thou hast accomplished these, thou shalt lie on thy right side, and shalt bear the iniquity of the house of ; forty days, each day for a year, have I appointed it unto thee.
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And thou shalt set thy toward the siege of , with thine arm uncovered; and thou shalt prophesy against it.
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And, behold, I lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast accomplished the days of thy siege.
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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.
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And thy food which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from time to time shalt thou eat it.
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Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of a hin; from time to time shalt thou drink.
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And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.’
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And said: ‘Even thus shall the children of eat their bread unclean, among the nations whither I will drive them.’
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- 14 Then said I: ‘Ah ! behold, my hath not been polluted; for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn of beasts; neither came there abhorred into my mouth.’
- 15 Then He said unto me: ‘See, I have given thee cow’s dung for man’s dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread thereon.’
- 16 Moreover He said unto me: ‘Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in , and they shall eat bread by weight, and with anxiety; and they shall drink water by measure, and in appalment;
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that they may want bread and water, and be appalled one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
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