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"Then get yourself an ironplate and set it up as an ironwallbetween you and the city, and set your facetoward it so that it is under siege, and besiege* it. This is a sign to the house of Israel.
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"As for you, liedown on your leftside and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; you shall bear their iniquity for the number of days that you lie on it.
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"For I have assigned you a number of days corresponding to the years of their iniquity, threehundred and ninetydays; thus you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
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"When you have completedthese, you shall liedown a secondtime, but on your rightside and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah; I have assigned it to you for fortydays, a day for each year.
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"But as for you, takewheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and spelt, put them in onevessel and make them into bread for yourself; you shall eat it according to the number of the days that you lie on your side, threehundred and ninetydays.
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But I said, "Ah, LordGOD! Behold, I have neverbeendefiled; for from my youthuntilnow I have nevereatenwhatdied of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has any uncleanmeat ever entered my mouth."
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Moreover, He said to me, "Son of man, behold, I am going to break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eatbread by weight and with anxiety, and drinkwater by measure and in horror,