Ezekiel Chapter 4 verse 13 Holy Bible
And Jehovah said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations whither I will drive them.
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And the Lord said, Even so the children of Israel will have unclean bread for their food among the nations where I am driving them.
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And Jehovah said, So shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean among the nations whither I will drive them.
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And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.
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Yahweh said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.
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And Jehovah saith, `Thus do the sons of Israel eat their defiled bread among the nations whither I drive them.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 13. - Even thus shall the children of Israel, etc. The strange command takes a wider range. It symbolizes, not the literal horrors of the siege, but the "defiled bread" which even the exiles would be reduced to eat. So taken, the words remind us of the risk of eating unclean, food, which almost inevitably attended the position of the exiles (Hosea 9:3; Daniel 1:8), and which, it may be, Ezekiel had already tell keenly. There is obviously something more than can be explained by a reference to "the bitter bread of banishment," or to Dante's "Come sa di sale... " ('Par.,' 17:58).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(13) Eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles.--The Mosaic law purposely so hedged the people about with detailed precepts in regard to their food and its preparation, that it was impossible for them to share the food of the Gentiles without contracting ceremonial defilement; and the declared object of this symbolism is to teach that the Israelites should thus be forced to contract defilement. Their sins had brought them to that pass, which is so often the result of continued and obdurate sin, that it should be impossible for them to avoid further transgression. Ezekiel shows by his reply, in Ezekiel 4:14, that like St. Peter, in Acts 10:14, he had ever been a scrupulous observer of the law. To St. Peter, however, it was made known that in the breadth of the Christian dispensation this ceremonial law was now done away, while to Ezekiel it still remained in full force.
