4:4 “Also for your part lie on your left side and place the iniquity 1 of the house of Israel on it. For the number of days you lie on your side you will bear their iniquity.
4:9 “As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, 2 put them in a single container, and make food 3 from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side – 390 days 4 – you will eat it.
1 tn Or “punishment” (also in vv. 5, 6).
2 sn Wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt. All these foods were common in Mesopotamia where Ezekiel was exiled.
3 tn Heb “bread.”
4 tc The LXX reads “190 days.”
3 tn Heb “the days draw near and the word of every vision (draws near).”
4 tn Heb “come up.”
5 tn Or “reveal my holiness.”
5 tn Heb “and they will complete the days.”
6 sn The people also could partake of the food of the peace offering (Lev 3).