Ezequiel 4:12

12 Prepara este alimento y cómelo como si fuera un pan de cebada. Cocínalo a la vista de todo el pueblo, sobre un fuego encendido con excremento humano seco, y luego cómete el pan».

Ezequiel 4:12 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 4:12

And thou shalt eat it [as] barley cakes
That is, the bread made of wheat, barley, beans, lentiles, millet, and fitches, was to be made in the form of barley cakes, and to be baked as they; not in an oven, but under ashes; and these ashes not of wood, or straw, or turf, but as follows: and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of men, in their
sight:
the prophet was to take human dung, and dry it, and then cover the cakes or loaves of his mixed bread with it, and burn it over them, and with it bake it; which must be a very disagreeable task to him, and make the food very nauseous, both to himself and to the Jews, in whose sight it was done; and this shows scarcity of fuel, and the severity of the famine; that they had not fuel to bake with, or could not stay till it was baked in an oven, and therefore took this method; as well as points at what they were to eat when carried captive, as follows:

Ezequiel 4:12 In-Context

10 Prepárate raciones de alimento de doscientos veintiocho gramos
para cada día y cómelas a determinadas horas.

11 Luego mide una jarra
de agua para cada día y bébela a determinadas horas.

12 Prepara este alimento y cómelo como si fuera un pan de cebada. Cocínalo a la vista de todo el pueblo, sobre un fuego encendido con excremento humano seco, y luego cómete el pan».

13 Después el Señor
dijo: «¡Así comerán los israelitas pan contaminado en las naciones gentiles
adonde los expulsaré!».

14 Entonces dije: «Oh Señor
Soberano, ¿es necesario que me contamine con excremento humano? Pues nunca me he contaminado. Desde que era niño hasta ahora, jamás comí ningún animal que muriera por enfermedad o que fuera muerto por otros animales. Jamás probé ninguna carne prohibida por la ley».