4:9 “As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, 4 put them in a single container, and make food 5 from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side – 390 days 6 – you will eat it.
1 tn Heb “I have assigned for you that the years of their iniquity be the number of days.” Num 14:33-34 is an example of the reverse, where the days were converted into years, the number of days spying out the land becoming the number of years of the wilderness wanderings.
2 tc The LXX reads “190 days.”
3 tn Or “When you have carried the iniquity of the house of Israel,” and continuing on to the next verse.
4 sn Wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt. All these foods were common in Mesopotamia where Ezekiel was exiled.
5 tn Heb “bread.”
6 tc The LXX reads “190 days.”