The Defiled Bread
Ezekiel 4:15
In 11 translations
- BSB
- “Look,” He replied, “I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you may bake your bread over that.”
- KJV
- Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow’s dung for man’s dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.
- WEB
- Then he said to me, “Behold, I have given you cow’s dung for man’s dung, and you shall prepare your bread on it.”
- ASV
- Then he said unto me, See, I have given thee cow’s dung for man’s dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread thereon.
- LSV
- And He says to me, “See, I have given to you bullock’s dung instead of man’s dung, and you have made your bread by it.”
- YLT
- And He saith unto me, 'See, I have given to thee bullock's dung instead of man's dung, and thou hast made thy bread by it.'
- DBY
- And he said unto me, See, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.
- DRC
- And he said to me: Behold I have given thee neat’s dung for man’s dung, and thou shalt make thy bread therewith.
- GNV
- Then he said vnto me, Loe, I haue giuen thee bullockes dongue for mans dongue, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.
- JPS
- Then He said unto me: 'See, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread thereon.'
- LXXE
- And he said to me, Behold, I have given thee dung of oxen instead of man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy loaves upon it.
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Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (2)
- Leningrad Codex reads צְפִועֵ֣י; read aloud (Qere) reads צְפִיעֵ֣י (“[the] dungs of”).
- Written (Ketiv): צְפוּעֵי. Read aloud (Qere): צְפִיעֵ֣י (“[the] dungs of”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלַ֔י רְאֵ֗ה נָתַ֤תִּֽי לְךָ֙ אֶת־צפועי הַבָּקָ֔ר תַּ֖חַת גֶּלְלֵ֣י הָֽאָדָ֑ם וְעָשִׂ֥יתָ אֶֽת־לַחְמְךָ֖ עֲלֵיהֶֽם׃Read aloud as (qere): צְפִיעֵ֣י
- LXX-Br
- Καὶ εἶπε πρὸς μὲ, ἰδοὺ δέδωκά σοι βόλβιτα βοῶν ἀντὶ τῶν βολβίτων τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων, καὶ ποιήσεις τοὺς ἄρτους σου ἐπʼ αὐτῶν.
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