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Ezekiel 4:13

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

And the Lord said, even thus shall the children of Israel,.... Not the ten tribes only, or those who were among the other two, but all the Jews in captivity:eat the defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them; so called, not because mixed, but baked in the above manner; which was a symbol of the defilements which they should contract upon various accounts, by dwelling among the Gentiles; so that this foretells their captivity; their pollution among the nations of the world; and that they should not be the holy people to the Lord they had been, and had boasted of.

The Jews cite this passage to prove that he that eats bread without drying his hands is as if he ate defiled bread. T. Bab. Sota, fol, 4.

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