¹² Eat the food as you would a loaf of barley bread; bake it in the sight of the people, using human excrement^(A) for fuel.” ¹³ The Lord said, “In this way the people of Israel will eat defiled food among the nations where I will drive them.”^(B)

¹⁴ Then I said, “Not so, Sovereign Lord!^(C) I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have never eaten anything found dead^(D) or torn by wild animals. No impure meat has ever entered my mouth.^(E)”