4:1 “And you, son of man, take a brick 3 and set it in front of you. Inscribe 4 a city on it – Jerusalem.
4:9 “As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, 8 put them in a single container, and make food 9 from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side – 390 days 10 – you will eat it.
1 tn Or “a barricade.”
2 tn Heb “set camps against it.”
3 sn Ancient Near Eastern bricks were 10 to 24 inches long and 6 to 13 1/2 inches wide.
4 tn Or perhaps “draw.”
5 sn Note the similar language in Lev 16:18.
7 tn Or “a griddle,” that is, some sort of plate for cooking.
8 tn That is, a symbolic object lesson.
9 sn Wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt. All these foods were common in Mesopotamia where Ezekiel was exiled.
10 tn Heb “bread.”
11 tc The LXX reads “190 days.”