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Ezekiel bakes the ration loaf over dried cattle-dung fuel after his protest is heard.
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Ezekiel 4:12-15

The permitted fuel

Signs of the Coming Siege · Ezekiel 4

Story guide: The image depicts Yahweh’s concession to cattle dung and omits the initially commanded human waste.

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12You shall eat it as a barley cake, and you shall bake it over human dung in their sight.

13And Yahweh said, “Thus the sons of Israel will eat their bread unclean among the nations where I will drive them.”

14Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Look, I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have not eaten what dies of itself or what is torn by beasts, and no defiled meat has entered my mouth.”

15Then he said to me, “See, I have given you cow dung instead of human dung, and you shall prepare your bread over it.”

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