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    "book": "ezekiel",
    "chapter": 4
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    "bookCode": "EZK",
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "EZK-4:1",
        "verseRef": "Ezek.4.1",
        "text": "Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it a city, even Jerusalem:"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "EZK-4:2",
        "verseRef": "Ezek.4.2",
        "text": "and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it round about."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "EZK-4:3",
        "verseRef": "Ezek.4.3",
        "text": "And take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "EZK-4:4",
        "verseRef": "Ezek.4.4",
        "text": "Moreover lie thou upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it; [according to] the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it, thou shalt bear their iniquity."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "EZK-4:5",
        "verseRef": "Ezek.4.5",
        "text": "For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be unto thee a number of days, even three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "EZK-4:6",
        "verseRef": "Ezek.4.6",
        "text": "And again, when thou hast accomplished these, thou shalt lie on thy right side, and shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty days, each day for a year, have I appointed it unto thee."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "EZK-4:7",
        "verseRef": "Ezek.4.7",
        "text": "And thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with thine arm uncovered; and thou shalt prophesy against it."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "EZK-4:8",
        "verseRef": "Ezek.4.8",
        "text": "And, behold, I lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to the other, till thou hast accomplished the days of thy siege."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "EZK-4:9",
        "verseRef": "Ezek.4.9",
        "text": "Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof; [according to] the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, even three hundred and ninety days, shalt thou eat thereof."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "EZK-4:10",
        "verseRef": "Ezek.4.10",
        "text": "And thy food which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "EZK-4:11",
        "verseRef": "Ezek.4.11",
        "text": "And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shalt thou drink."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "EZK-4:12",
        "verseRef": "Ezek.4.12",
        "text": "And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "EZK-4:13",
        "verseRef": "Ezek.4.13",
        "text": "And Jehovah said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations whither I will drive them."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "EZK-4:14",
        "verseRef": "Ezek.4.14",
        "text": "Then said I, Ah Lord Jehovah! behold, my soul hath not been polluted; for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn of beasts; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "EZK-4:15",
        "verseRef": "Ezek.4.15",
        "text": "Then he said unto me, See, I have given thee cow`s dung for man`s dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread thereon."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "EZK-4:16",
        "verseRef": "Ezek.4.16",
        "text": "Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:"
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "EZK-4:17",
        "verseRef": "Ezek.4.17",
        "text": "that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity."
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