Discovery BoxEzekiel 4:9 
Context4:9 “As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, 1 put them in a single container, and make food 2 from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side – 390 days 3 – you will eat it.
Ezekiel 13:19
Context13:19 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. You have put to death people 4 who should not die and kept alive those who should not live by your lies to my people, who listen to lies!
Ezekiel 21:19
Context21:19 “You, son of man, mark out two routes for the king of Babylon’s sword to take; both of them will originate in a single land. Make a signpost and put it at the beginning of the road leading to the city.
Ezekiel 30:13
Context30:13 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:
I will destroy the idols,
and put an end to the gods of Memphis.
There will no longer be a prince from the land of Egypt;
so I will make the land of Egypt fearful. 5
Ezekiel 42:14
Context42:14 When the priests enter, then they will not go out from the sanctuary to the outer court without taking off their garments in which they minister, for these are holy; they will put on other garments, then they will go near the places where the people are.”
Ezekiel 44:19
Context44:19 When they go out to the outer court to the people, they must remove the garments they were ministering in, and place them in the holy chambers; they must put on other garments so that they will not transmit holiness to the people with their garments. 6
1 sn Wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt. All these foods were common in Mesopotamia where Ezekiel was exiled.
2 tn Heb “bread.”
3 tc The LXX reads “190 days.”
4 tn Heb “human lives” or “souls.”
5 tn Heb “I will put fear in the land of Egypt.”
6 sn For a similar concept of the transmitting of holiness, see Exod 19:12-14; Lev 10:1-2; 2 Sam 6:7. Similar laws concerning the priest are found in Lev 10 and 21.
