Ezechiele 4:13

13 E l’Eterno disse: "Così i figliuoli d’Israele mangeranno il loro pane contaminato, fra le nazioni dove io li caccerò".

Ezechiele 4:13 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 4:13

And the Lord said, even thus shall the children of Israel,
&c.] Not the ten tribes only, or those who were among the other two, but all the Jews in captivity: eat the defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them;
so called, not because mixed, but baked in the above manner; which was a symbol of the defilements which they should contract upon various accounts, by dwelling among the Gentiles; so that this foretells their captivity; their pollution among the nations of the world; and that they should not be the holy people to the Lord they had been, and had boasted of. The Jews ^F11 cite this passage to prove that he that eats bread without drying his hands is as if he ate defiled bread.

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 T. Bab. Sota, fol, 4. 2.

Ezechiele 4:13 In-Context

11 Berrai pure dell’acqua a misura: la sesta parte d’un hin; la berrai di tempo in tempo.

12 Mangerai delle focacce d’orzo, che cuocerai in loro presenza con escrementi d’uomo".

13 E l’Eterno disse: "Così i figliuoli d’Israele mangeranno il loro pane contaminato, fra le nazioni dove io li caccerò".

14 Allora io dissi: "Ahimè, Signore, Eterno, ecco, l’anima mia non è stata contaminata; dalla mia fanciullezza a ora, non ho mai mangiato carne di bestia morta da sé o sbranata, e non m’è mai entrata in bocca alcuna carne infetta".

15 Ed egli mi disse: "Guarda io ti do dello sterco bovino, invece d’escrementi d’uomo; sopra quello cuocerai il tuo pane!"