Verse 14
Ezekiel 4:14
New Living Translation
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Then I said, “O Sovereign LORD, must I be defiled by using human dung? For I have never been defiled before. From the time I was a child until now I have never eaten any animal that died of sickness or was killed by other animals. I have never eaten any meat forbidden by the law.”
Original Language Text
hebrew
וָ/אֹמַ֗ר אֲהָהּ֙ אֲדֹנָ֣/י יְהוִ֔ה הִנֵּ֥ה נַפְשִׁ֖/י לֹ֣א מְטֻמָּאָ֑ה וּ/נְבֵלָ֨ה וּ/טְרֵפָ֤ה לֹֽא אָכַ֨לְתִּי֙ מִ/נְּעוּרַ֣/י וְ/עַד עַ֔תָּה וְ/לֹא בָ֥א בְּ/פִ֖/י בְּשַׂ֥ר פִּגּֽוּל
English Translation
And I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh, behold, my soul is not defiled, and I have not eaten anything unclean or dead; I have not eaten such from my youth until now, and nothing impure has entered my mouth."
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