Ezekiel 4:15 meaning and explanation

“Look,” He replied, “I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you may bake your bread over that.”

Ezekiel 4:15, Berean Standard Bible

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God had commanded Ezekiel to dramatize Jerusalem's coming siege, baking his rationed bread over dried human excrement as a sign that the exiles would eat defiled food among the nations. Ezekiel, a priest trained in purity laws, protests that he has never eaten anything unclean.

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