Ezekiel 4:6 meaning and explanation

When you have completed these days, lie down again, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have assigned to you 40 days, a day for each year.

Ezekiel 4:6, Berean Standard Bible

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God is speaking to Ezekiel, a prophet among the exiles in Babylon, and commands him to act out Jerusalem's siege with his own body. After lying on his left side for 390 days to bear Israel's iniquity, he must turn to his right side for 40 days, one day for each year of Judah's guilt.

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