Ezekiel 4:13
Good News Translation
The LORD said, "This represents the way the Israelites will have to eat food which the Law forbids, when I scatter them to foreign countries."

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD said, “Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread, unclean, among the nations to which I will drive them.”

Contemporary English Version
When I scatter the people of Israel among the nations, they will also have to eat food that is unclean, just as you must do.

New American Bible
The LORD said: Thus the Israelites shall eat their food, unclean, among the nations where I drive them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord said: So shall the children of Israel eat their bread all filthy among the nations whither I will cast them out.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the Lord said: So shall the children of Israel eat their bread all filthy among the nations whither I will cast them out.

Daniel 1:8 But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not be defiled with the king's table, nor with the wine which he drank: and he requested the master of the eunuchs that he might not be defiled.

Hosea 9:3,4 They shall not dwell in the Lord's land: Ephraim is returned to Egypt, and hath eaten unclean things among the Assyrians. . . .

Context
The Defiled Bread
12And thou shalt eat it as barley bread baked under the ashes: and thou shalt cover it, in their sight, with the dung that cometh out of a man. 13And the Lord said: So shall the children of Israel eat their bread all filthy among the nations whither I will cast them out.14And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God, behold my soul hath not been defiled, and from my infancy even till now, I have not eaten any thing that died of itself, or was torn by beasts, and no unclean flesh hath entered into my mouth.…
Cross References
Daniel 1:8
But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not be defiled with the king's table, nor with the wine which he drank: and he requested the master of the eunuchs that he might not be defiled.

Hosea 9:3
They shall not dwell in the Lord's land: Ephraim is returned to Egypt, and hath eaten unclean things among the Assyrians.

Amos 7:17
And now hear thou the word of the Lord: Thou sayest, thou shalt not prophesy against Israel, and thou shalt not drop thy word upon the house of the idol.

Ezekiel 4:12
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