Ezekiel 4:12 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹² And you shall eat it as a barley cake, baking it in their sight on human dung.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² And you shall eat your food as barley cakes and you shall bake it with human dung as fuel in the sight of the people.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.

Common English Bible

¹² Eat it like barley bread, and bake it on human excrement while they watch.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² And you shall eat it like barley bread baked under ashes. And you shall cover it, in their sight, with the dung that goes out of a man."

Ezekiel 4:12 Cross References

Genesis 18:6

And Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.”

Genesis 19:3

But he urged them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house; and he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

Isaiah 36:12

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

Ezekiel 4:11

And water you shall drink by measure, the sixth part of a hin; once a day you shall drink.