Parallel Verses
NET Bible
And you must eat the food like you would a barley cake. You must bake it in front of them over a fire made with dried human excrement."
New American Standard Bible
You shall eat it as a barley cake, having baked it in their sight over human
King James Version
And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.
Holman Bible
You will eat it as you would a barley cake and bake it over dried human excrement in their sight.”
International Standard Version
You are to eat it as barley cakes and bake it right in front of them, using dried human dung for cooking fuel."
A Conservative Version
And thou shall eat it as barley cakes, and thou shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man.
American Standard Version
And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.
Amplified
You shall eat your food as barley cakes, having baked it in their sight over human dung.”
Bible in Basic English
And let your food be barley cakes, cooking it before their eyes with the waste which comes out of a man.
Darby Translation
And thou shalt eat it as barley-cake, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.
Julia Smith Translation
And thou shalt eat it cakes of barley, and it shall be baked with dung coming forth of man, before their eyes.
King James 2000
And you shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it, using human waste, in their sight.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And [as a] bread-cake of barley you shall eat it, and {with human excrement} you shall bake it before their eyes."
Modern King James verseion
And you shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it with dung of the excrement of man, in their sight.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Barley cakes shalt thou eat, yet shalt thou first strike them over with man's dung, that they may see it."
New Heart English Bible
You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man."
The Emphasized Bible
and as a barley cake, shalt thou eat it, - and the same with dung proceeding from man, shalt thou bake, before their eyes.
Webster
And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with human excrement in their sight.
World English Bible
You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man.
Youngs Literal Translation
A barley-cake thou dost eat it, and it with dung -- the filth of man -- thou dost bake before their eyes.
Themes
Bread » How prepared » On coals of dung
Instruction » Eating bread mixed with dung
Prayer » Answered » Ezekiel, to have the baking of his bread of affliction changed
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 4:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Ezekiel's Strange Defiled Meal
11 And you must drink water by measure, a pint and a half; you must drink it at fixed times. 12 And you must eat the food like you would a barley cake. You must bake it in front of them over a fire made with dried human excrement." 13 And the Lord said, "This is how the people of Israel will eat their unclean food among the nations where I will banish them."
Cross References
Genesis 18:6
So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, "Quick! Take three measures of fine flour, knead it, and make bread."
Isaiah 36:12
But the chief adviser said, "My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you. His message is also for the men who sit on the wall, for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you!"