Ezekiel 4:12

In 11 translations

BSB

And you shall eat the food as you would a barley cake, after you bake it over dried human excrement in the sight of the people.”

KJV

And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.

WEB

You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man.”

ASV

And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.

LSV

And you eat it [as] barley-cake, and it with dung—the filth of man—you bake before their eyes.”

YLT

A barley-cake thou dost eat it, and it with dung — the filth of man — thou dost bake before their eyes.

DBY

And thou shalt eat it [as] barley-cake, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.

DRC

And thou shalt eat it as barley bread baked under the ashes: and thou shalt cover it, in their sight, with the dung that cometh out of a man.

GNV

And thou shalt eate it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it in the dongue that commeth out of man, in their sight.

JPS

And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.'

LXXE

And thou shalt eat them as a barley cake: thou shalt bake them before their eyes in man's dung.

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WLC

וְעֻגַ֥ת שְׂעֹרִ֖ים תֹּֽאכֲלֶ֑נָּה וְהִ֗יא בְּגֶֽלְלֵי֙ צֵאַ֣ת הָֽאָדָ֔ם תְּעֻגֶ֖נָה לְעֵינֵיהֶֽם׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ ἐγκρυφίαν κρίθινον φάγεσαι αὐτὰ, ἐν βολβίτοις κόπρου ἀνθρωπίνης ἐγκρύψεις αὐτὰ κατʼ ὀφθαλμοὺς αὐτῶν.

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• Isaiah 36:12But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”
• Genesis 18:6So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Prepare three seahs of fine flour, knead it, and bake some bread.”

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