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¹YOU, Oh Son of man, also take a brick and lay it before you, and draw on it the outline of the city of Jerusalem; ²And lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast a mount against it; and also set some camps against it, and around it set battering rams against it. ³Moreover take an iron pan, and set it for an iron wall between you and the city; and set your face against it, and it will be besieged, and you will lay siege against it. This is a sign to the house of Israel. ⁴Then lie on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on that side; according to the number of days that you will lie on it, you will bear their iniquity. ⁵For I have given you 2 tasks of iniquities, according to the number of the days, 390 days; so you will bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. ⁶And when you have completed them, you will lie again on your right side, and you will bear the iniquity of the house of Judah 40 days; I have appointed you each day for a year. ⁷Therefore you will set your face towards the siege of Jerusalem, and your arm will prevail, and you will prophesy against it. ⁸And look, I have laid chains on you, and you will not turn from one side to another until you have completed the days of your siege.

⁹And take for yourself wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and rye, and put them in one vessel, and make for yourself bread of them; according to the number of days that you will lie on your side, 390 days, you will eat of it. ¹⁰And your food which you will eat will be by weight, 20 shekels a day; from time to time you will eat it. ¹¹And you will drink water by measure, 1/6th part of a hin; from time to time you will drink. ¹²And you will eat it as if you ate barley cakes, having baked it in their sight with the dung that comes out of men. ¹³And Yahvah said, Thus the children of Israel will eat their bread unclean among the Gentiles, where I will drive them. ¹⁴Then I said, Ah Yahvah God. Look, I have never defiled myself; not from my youth even up until now, I have not eaten that which dies by itself nor is torn in pieces by wild animals; nor has unclean meat entered into my mouth. ¹⁵Then he said to me, Look, I have given you oxen's dung instead of men's dung, that you will bake your bread with it. ¹⁶Moreover, he said to me, Son of man, look, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem; and they will eat bread by weight; and when thirsty, they will drink water by measure; ¹⁷And they will lack bread and water, and they will perish one with another, and will be consumed in their iniquity.