Ezekiel 4:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁵ Then he said to me, “See, I will let you have cow’s dung instead of human dung, on which you may prepare your bread.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ Then He said to me, Behold, I will let you use cow's dung instead of human dung, and you shall prepare your food with it.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ Then he said unto me, See, I have given thee cow’s dung for man’s dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread thereon.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ He answered me: “Then I’ll let you use cow dung instead of human excrement. You can make your bread over that.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ And he said to me: "Behold, I have given to you cow manure in place of human dung, and you shall make your bread with it."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ And he said to me: Behold, I have given thee neat's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt make thy bread therewith.

Ezekiel 4:15 Cross References

2 Kings 18:27

But the Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you and not to the people sitting on the wall, who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and to drink their own urine?”

Lamentations 1:11

All her people groan as they search for bread; they trade their treasures for food to revive their lives. Look, O Lord, and see how worthless I have become.

Ezekiel 4:14

Then I said, “Ah Lord God! I have never defiled myself; from my youth up until now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by animals, nor has carrion flesh come into my mouth.”

Ezekiel 4:16

Then he said to me, “Mortal, I am going to cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem; they shall eat bread by weight and with fearfulness, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay.