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And thou◦, son of man, take thee a brick, and put◦ it before thee, and portray upon her the city of Jerusalem;
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and put◦ a siege against her, and build a ramp against her, and pour··out an embankment against her; put◦ the camp against her, and set battering rams▫ against her all around.
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And take thou◦ to thee an iron griddle, and put◦ it for a wall◦ of iron between thee and the city; and establish thy face against▵ it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt besiege it. This◦ shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
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And thou◦, lie also on thy left◦ side, and set the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; the number of the days that thou shalt lie on it thou shalt bear their iniquity.
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And I◦ have put◦ upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days; and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
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And when thou hast completed these, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days; I have given to thee a day for a year, a day for a year.
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And thou shalt set thy face toward▵ the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be made··bare, and thou shalt prophesy against it.
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And, behold, I will put◦ ropes on thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from thy side to▵ thy side, until thou hast completed the days of thy siege.
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And take thou◦ 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 on thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat of it.
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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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And thou shalt drink water by volume, 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 make··the··cake with excrement that goes out of man, before▫ their eyes.
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And Jehovah said, In··this··manner shall the sons of Israel eat their unclean bread among the nations, whither I will compel them.
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And I said, Alas, Lord Jehovih*! Behold, my soul has not been defiled; and from my youth until now I have not eaten of the carcass and of what is torn; and there came not the flesh of abomination◦ into my mouth.
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And He said to▵ me, See, I have given thee the dung◦ of cattle instead··of the excrement of man, and thou shalt make thy bread with it.
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And He said to▵ me, Son of man, behold, I will break the rod of bread in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread by weight, and with anxiety; and they shall drink water by volume, and with astonishment,
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in··order··that they may have··want of bread and water, and be desolate, a man◦ and his brother, and waste··away in their iniquity.
