“Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, 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, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.”
Restricted diet of mixed grains sustains prophet during siege period; sparse composite bread symbolizes siege famine and exilic mixture of peoples.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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