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¹ You also, son of man, take for yourself a tile, and lay it before you, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem:² and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it round about.³ And you take to yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.⁴ Moreover you lie on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; [according to] the number of the days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity.⁵ For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be to you a number of days, even three hundred and ninety days: so you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.⁶ And again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty days, each day for a year, I have appointed it to you.⁷ And you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it.⁸ And, look, I lay bands on you, and you shall not turn from one side to the other, until you have accomplished the days of your siege.

⁹ You take also to yourself wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make yourself bread thereof; [according to] the number of the days that you shall lie on your side, even three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat thereof.¹⁰ And your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time you shall eat it.¹¹ And you shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time you shall drink.¹² And you shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man.¹³ And Yahweh said, Even thus shall the sons of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.¹⁴ Then I said, Ah Lord Yahweh! look, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now I have not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of beasts; neither has there come contaminated flesh into my mouth.¹⁵ Then he said to me, See, I have given you cow's dung for man's dung, and you shall prepare your bread thereon.¹⁶ Moreover he said to me, Son of man, look, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:¹⁷ that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed a man and his brother, and pine away in their iniquity.