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God commands Ezekiel to bake his bread over human dung as a sign, and explains that it represents Israel eating unclean bread among the nations where they will be driven Ezekiel 4:12–13. When Ezekiel objects, God allows cow dung instead Ezekiel 4:14–15. The larger sign includes rationed bread and water showing siege scarcity Ezekiel 4:16–17.
12You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man.
13Yahweh said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.
14Then said I, Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
15Then he said to me, Behold, I have given you cow`s dung for man`s dung, and you shall prepare your bread thereon.
16Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:
17that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.