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And you shall lay a siege against it, and build bulwarks against it, and cast up a rampart against it, and set camps against it, and station the siege-engine posts round about.
And you, take for yourself an iron pan and set it as an iron wall between you and the city; and you shall set your face against it, and it shall be under siege, and you shall besiege it. This is a sign to the sons of Israel.
And you shall lie upon your left side, and you shall place the iniquities of the house of Israel upon it, according to the number of the days, one hundred and fifty, which you shall lie upon it; and you shall bear their iniquities.
And you shall complete all these things, and you shall lie upon your right side and shall bear the iniquities of the house of Iouda forty days; a day for a year I have appointed for you.
And you, take for yourself wheat and barley and bean and lentil and millet and spelt, and put them into one earthen vessel, and make them for yourself into loaves; and according to the number of the days that you sleep upon your side, one hundred and ninety days, you shall eat them.
And I said, By no means, Lord, God of Israel! Behold, my soul has not been defiled with uncleanness, and I have not eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, from my birth until now; nor has any stale meat entered into my mouth.
And he said to me, Son of man, behold, I am breaking the support of bread in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread by weight and in want, and shall drink water by measure and in desolation,