Ezekiel 4:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And let your food be barley cakes, cooking it before their eyes with the waste which comes out of a man.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 36:12 : 12 But the Rab-shakeh said, Is it to your master or to you that my master has sent me to say these words? has he not sent me to the men seated on the wall? for they are the people who will be short of food with you when the town is shut in.
  • Gen 18:6 : 6 Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes.

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  • Ezek 4:13-17
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    13 And the Lord said, Even so the children of Israel will have unclean bread for their food among the nations where I am driving them.

    14 Then I said, Ah, Lord! see, my soul has never been unclean, and I have never taken as my food anything which has come to a natural death or has been broken by beasts, from the time when I was young even till now; no disgusting flesh has ever come into my mouth.

    15 Then he said to me, See, I have given you cow's waste in place of man's waste, and you will make your bread ready on it.

    16 And he said to me, Son of man, see, I will take away from Jerusalem her necessary bread: they will take their bread by weight and with care, measuring out their drinking-water with fear and wonder:

    17 So that they may be in need of bread and water and be wondering at one another, wasting away in their sin.

  • Ezek 4:8-11
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    8 And see, I will put bands on you; and you will be stretched out without turning from one side to the other till the days of your attack are ended.

    9 And take for yourself wheat and barley and different sorts of grain, and put them in one vessel and make bread for yourself from them; all the days when you are stretched on your side it will be your food.

    10 And you are to take your food by weight, twenty shekels a day: you are to take it at regular times.

    11 And you are to take water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: you are to take it at regular times.

  • Mal 2:3
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    3 See, I will have your arm cut off, and will put waste on your faces, even the waste from your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.

  • Lev 26:29
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    29 Then you will take the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters for food;

  • Ezek 24:22
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    22 And you will do as I have done, not covering your lips or taking the food of those in grief.

  • Lev 24:5
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    5 And take the best meal and make twelve cakes of it, a fifth part of an ephah in every cake.

  • Ezek 12:17-19
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    17 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

    18 Son of man, take your food with shaking fear, and your water with trouble and care;

    19 And say to the people of the land, This is what the Lord has said about the people of Jerusalem and the land of Israel: They will take their food with care and their drink with wonder, so that all the wealth of their land may be taken from it because of the violent ways of the people living in it.

  • Mic 6:14
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    14 You will have food, but not enough; your shame will be ever with you: you will get your goods moved, but you will not take them away safely; and what you do take away I will give to the sword.

  • Exod 29:2
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    2 And unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and thin unleavened cakes on which oil has been put, made of the best bread-meal;

  • Ezek 16:19
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    19 And my bread which I gave you, the best meal and oil and honey which I gave you for your food, you put it before them for a sweet smell, says the Lord.

  • Lev 26:26
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    26 When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough.

  • Exod 12:20
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    20 Take nothing which has leaven in it; wherever you are living let your food be unleavened cakes.

  • Isa 30:22
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    22 And you will make unclean what is covering your pictured images of silver, and the plating of your images of gold: you will send them away as an unclean thing, saying, Be gone!

  • Deut 12:24-25
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    24 Do not take it for food but let it be drained out on the earth like water.

    25 Do not take it for food; so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, while you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

  • Num 18:10
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    10 As most holy things they are to be your food: let every male have them for food; it is to be holy to you.

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    32 And that which is over of the flesh and of the bread is to be burned with fire.

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    12 But the Rab-shakeh said, Is it to your master or to you that my master has sent me to say these words? has he not sent me to the men seated on the wall? for they are the people who will be short of food with you when the town is shut in.

  • Mal 1:12
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    12 But you make it unholy by saying, The Lord's table has become unclean, and his food is of no value.

  • Num 15:19-20
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    19 Then, when you take for your food the produce of the land, you are to give an offering lifted up before the Lord.

    20 Of the first of your rough meal you are to give a cake for a lifted offering, lifting it up before the Lord as the offering of the grain-floor is lifted up.

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    19 And as for my sheep, their food is the grass which has been stamped on by your feet, and their drink the water which has been made dirty by your feet.

  • Ezek 13:19
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    19 And you have put me to shame among my people for a little barley and some bits of bread, sending death on souls for whom there is no cause of death, and keeping those souls living who have no right to life, by the false words you say to my people who give ear to what is false.

  • Lev 18:28
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    28 So that the land may not put you out from it, when you make it unclean, as it put out the nations which were there before you.

  • Lev 22:25
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    25 And from one who is not an Israelite you may not take any of these for an offering to the Lord; for they are unclean, there is a mark on them, and the Lord will not be pleased with them.

  • Jer 19:10
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    10 Then let the potter's bottle be broken before the eyes of the men who have gone with you,

  • Jer 9:15
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    15 So the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, I will give them, even this people, bitter plants for food and bitter water for drink.

  • 2 Kgs 18:27
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    27 But the Rab-shakeh said to them, Is it to your master or to you that my master has sent me to say these words? has he not sent me to the men seated on the wall? for they are the people who will be short of food with you when the town is shut in.

  • Zeph 1:17
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    17 And I will send trouble on men so that they will go about like the blind, because they have done evil against the Lord: and their blood will be drained out like dust, and their strength like waste.

  • Exod 13:6
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    6 For seven days let your food be unleavened cakes; and on the seventh day there is to be a feast to the Lord.

  • Deut 23:13
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    13 And have among your arms a spade; and when you have been to that place, let that which comes from you be covered up with earth:

  • Exod 12:8-9
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    8 And let your food that night be the flesh of the lamb, cooked with fire in the oven, together with unleavened bread and bitter-tasting plants.

    9 Do not take it uncooked or cooked with boiling water, but let it be cooked in the oven; its head with its legs and its inside parts.

  • Jer 16:4
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    4 Death from evil diseases will overtake them; there will be no weeping for them and their bodies will not be put to rest; they will be like waste on the face of the earth: the sword and need of food will put an end to them; their dead bodies will be meat for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth.

  • Ezek 3:3
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    3 And he said to me, Son of man, let your stomach make a meal of it and let your inside be full of this roll which I am giving you. Then I took it, and it was sweet as honey in my mouth.

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    15 And I will send you in flight among the nations and wandering among the countries; and I will completely take away out of you everything which is unclean.

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    17 Son of man, when the children of Israel were living in their land, they made it unclean by their way and their acts: their way before me was as when a woman is unclean at the time when she is kept separate.

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    23 And take one bit of bread and one cake of oiled bread and one thin cake out of the basket of unleavened bread which is before the Lord:

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    24 Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean: