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Originally Posted by n david
I don't have the book of Ezekiel memorized. The only thing "clarified" is I missed the reference to Ezekiel.
No, Ezekiel wasn't told to bake and eat a cow patty. He was told to cook BREAD using the dung as fuel.
If you're going to be snarky, at least get the story right.
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Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
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;