Ezekiel 4:13
And the LORD said,“This is how the people of Israel will eat their unclean food among the nations where I will banish them.”
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- Dan 1:8 : 8 But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the royal delicacies or the royal wine. He therefore asked the overseer of the court officials for permission not to defile himself.
- Hos 9:3-4 : 3 Assyrian Exile Will Reverse the Egyptian Exodus They will not remain in the LORD’s land. Ephraim will return to Egypt; they will eat ritually unclean food in Assyria. 4 They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to the LORD; they will not please him with their sacrifices. Their sacrifices will be like bread eaten while in mourning; all those who eat them will make themselves ritually unclean. For their bread will be only to satisfy their appetite; it will not come into the temple of the LORD.
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12 And you must eat the food like you would a barley cake. You must bake it in front of them over a fire made with dried human excrement.”
- Ezek 4:14-152 verses79%
14 And I said,“Ah, Sovereign LORD, I have never been ceremonially defiled before. I have never eaten a carcass or an animal torn by wild beasts; from my youth up, unclean meat has never entered my mouth.”
15 So he said to me,“All right then, I will substitute cow’s manure instead of human excrement. You will cook your food over it.”
- Hos 9:3-42 verses77%
3 Assyrian Exile Will Reverse the Egyptian Exodus They will not remain in the LORD’s land. Ephraim will return to Egypt; they will eat ritually unclean food in Assyria.
4 They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to the LORD; they will not please him with their sacrifices. Their sacrifices will be like bread eaten while in mourning; all those who eat them will make themselves ritually unclean. For their bread will be only to satisfy their appetite; it will not come into the temple of the LORD.
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15 I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you among various countries; I will remove your impurity from you.
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15 ס(Samek) People cry to them,“Turn away! You are unclean! Turn away! Turn away! Don’t touch us!” So they have fled and wander about; but the nations say,“They may not stay here any longer.”
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17 “Son of man, when the house of Israel was living on their own land, they defiled it by their behavior and their deeds. In my sight their behavior was like the uncleanness of a woman having her monthly period.
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7 When you bring foreigners, those uncircumcised in heart and in flesh, into my sanctuary, you desecrate it– even my house– when you offer my food, the fat and the blood. You have broken my covenant by all your abominable practices.
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7 I brought you into a fertile land so you could enjoy its fruits and its rich bounty. But when you entered my land, you defiled it; you made the land I call my own loathsome to me.
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12 “But you are profaning it by saying that the table of the Lord is common and its offerings despicable.
- Lev 18:24-252 verses73%
24 Warning against the Abominations of the Nations“‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you have been defiled with all these things.
25 Therefore the land has become unclean and I have brought the punishment for its iniquity upon it, so that the land has vomited out its inhabitants.
- Jer 9:15-162 verses73%
15 So then, listen to what I, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, say.‘I will make these people eat the bitter food of suffering and drink the poison water of judgment.
16 I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known anything about. I will send people chasing after them with swords until I have destroyed them.’”
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25 Even from a foreigner you must not present the food of your God from such animals as these, for they are ruined and flawed; they will not be acceptable for your benefit.’”
- Lev 22:15-162 verses73%
15 They must not profane the holy offerings which the Israelites contribute to the LORD,
16 and so cause them to incur a penalty for guilt when they eat their holy offerings, for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.’”
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19 As for my sheep, they must eat what you trampled with your feet, and drink what you have muddied with your feet!
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8 and the one who eats it will bear his punishment for iniquity because he has profaned what is holy to the LORD. That person will be cut off from his people.
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40 One who eats from its carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening, and whoever carries its carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.
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9 “As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, put them in a single container, and make food from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side– 390 days– you will eat it.
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10 Therefore fathers will eat their sons within you, Jerusalem, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you, and I will scatter any survivors to the winds.
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18 “When they return to it, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations.
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19 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. You have put to death people who should not die and kept alive those who should not live by your lies to my people, who listen to lies!
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22 Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lip or eat food brought by others.
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15 Regulations for Eating Carcasses“‘Any person who eats an animal that has died of natural causes or an animal torn by beasts, whether a native citizen or a resident foreigner, must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening; then he becomes clean.
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7 When the sun goes down he will be clean, and afterward he may eat from the holy offerings, because they are his food.
8 He must not eat an animal that has died of natural causes or an animal torn by beasts and thus become unclean by it. I am the LORD.
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19 The meat which touches anything ceremonially unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned up in the fire. As for ceremonially clean meat, everyone who is ceremonially clean may eat the meat.
20 The person who eats meat from the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the LORD while his uncleanness persists will be cut off from his people.
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33 I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.
- Lev 11:34-352 verses72%
34 Any food that may be eaten which becomes soaked with water will become unclean. Anything drinkable in any such vessel will become unclean.
35 Anything their carcass may fall on will become unclean. An oven or small stove must be smashed to pieces; they are unclean, and they will stay unclean to you.
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7 You are offering improper sacrifices on my altar, yet you ask,‘How have we offended you?’ By treating the table of the LORD as if it is of no importance!
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17 The LORD’s message came to me:
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19 As for my food that I gave you– the fine flour, olive oil, and honey I fed you– you placed it before them as a soothing aroma. That is exactly what happened, declares the Sovereign LORD.
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29 You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.
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3 I am about to discipline your children and will spread offal on your faces, the very offal produced at your festivals, and you will be carried away along with it.
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18 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘When you enter the land to which I am bringing you
19 and you eat some of the food of the land, you must offer up a raised offering to the LORD.
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17 Lambs will graze as if in their pastures, amid the ruins the rich sojourners will graze.
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28 So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it just as it has vomited out the nations that were before you.
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6 For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast, and on the seventh day there is to be a festival to the LORD.
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38 You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will consume you.
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27 Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples and there will be very few of you among the nations where the LORD will drive you.
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12 “I have heard the murmurings of the Israelites. Tell them,‘During the evening you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be satisfied with bread, so that you may know that I am the LORD your God.’”
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31 “You will be holy people to me; you must not eat any meat torn by animals in the field. You must throw it to the dogs.
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34 Therefore do not defile the land that you will inhabit, in which I live, for I the LORD live among the Israelites.”
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6 “But surely I gave you no food to eat in all your cities; you lacked food everywhere you live. Still you did not come back to me.” The LORD is speaking!