NET Bible
"And you must eat the food like you would a barley cake. You must bake it in front of them over a fire made with dried human excrement.”"
— Ezekiel 4:12, NET Bible
“And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.”
“And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man. ”
“You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man.”
“And thou shalt eat it as barley bread baked under the ashes: and thou shalt cover it, in their sight, with the dung that cometh out of a man.”
“And let your food be barley cakes, cooking it before their eyes with the waste which comes out of a man.”
“And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.”
“As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, put them in a single container, and make food from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side– 390 days– you will eat it.
The food you eat will be eight ounces a day by weight; you must eat it at fixed times.
And you must drink water by measure, a pint and a half; you must drink it at fixed times.
And you must eat the food like you would a barley cake. You must bake it in front of them over a fire made with dried human excrement.”
And the LORD said,“This is how the people of Israel will eat their unclean food among the nations where I will banish them.”
And I said,“Ah, Sovereign LORD, I have never been ceremonially defiled before. I have never eaten a carcass or an animal torn by wild beasts; from my youth up, unclean meat has never entered my mouth.”
So he said to me,“All right then, I will substitute cow’s manure instead of human excrement. You will cook your food over it.”