In Bible versus Quran: lie on your side and eat bread for 390 days
In Bible versus Quran: lie on your side and eat bread for 390 days
In the Bible, the Lord God suggests an interesting recipe for making bread and to eat it while lying on one side for 390 days.
The Lord God has commanded Ezekiel to bake the bread using human stool for fuel, then God changed it and said, "I will let you bake your bread over cow manure instead of human excrement.
Herein, we have two types of organic fuel for making bread.
Then the Lord God said: "I will tie you up with ropes so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have finished the days (390) of your siege."
N.B.: if someone is lying and cannot turn from one side to the other for 390 days, he would eventually have a huge fatal bed sore.
Then the Lord God gives the following orders:
Eat bread during the 390 days you lie on your side
Eat bread that weighs twenty shekels of a day
Drink water by measure, sixth part of a hin, from time to time
Eat a barley cake that is made on human dung
The children of Israel shall eat their defiled (unclean) bread among the nations (Gentiles), where the Lord God will drive them.
N.B.: A hin is a unit of liquid measure used by the ancient Hebrews; it is about five and half liters.
Then Ezekiel said I, Ah Lord Jehovah! Behold, I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have never eaten anything found dead or torn by wild animals. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth."
Then the Lord God said, "Very well, Lo, I have given you cow's dung instead of human dung, and you shall prepare your bread therewith.
Moreover, the Lord God said to Ezekiel, "Son of man, behold, I will cut off the supply of food (bread) in Jerusalem. The people shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay. I will do this so that they lack bread and water, and have been astonished one with another, and look at one another in dismay. And have been consumed in their iniquity and rot away because of their sin.
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I wonder what the wisdom of these Biblical teachings is.
Why the Lord God love recommends making bread on stool of man or even cow?
On the other hand, there is nothing like that present therein in the Entire Quran.
Also, Ezekiel is not mentioned in the Quran.
Moreover, the Quran recommends eating healthy good lawful food and forbids over-eating (verses 2:172 and 7:31).
The meaning of verse 2:172,
O believer! Eat of the good and healthy things, that are lawful, wherewith Allah has provided you, and give thanks to Allah for it and for what He has made lawful for you, if you really worship Allah.
The meaning of verse 7:31
O Children of Adam! Don your adornment at every place of worship and eat and drink what you want, but do not be excessive, prodigal or wasteful; Allah truly does not love those who are excessive, prodigal or wasteful.
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The Bible,
Ezekiel 4:8-17 (English Standard Version)
8And behold, I will place cords upon you, so that you cannot turn from one side to the other, till you have completed the days of your siege.
9"And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and emmer, and put them into a single vessel and make your bread from them. During the number of days that you lie on your side, 390 days, you shall eat it. 10And your food that you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from day to day you shall eat it. 11And water you shall drink by measure, the sixth part of a hin; from day to day you shall drink. 12And you shall eat it as a barley cake, baking it in their sight on human dung." 13And the LORD said, "Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them." 14Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I have never defiled myself. From my youth up till now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has tainted meat come into my mouth." 15Then he said to me, "See, I assign to you cow's dung instead of human dung, on which you may prepare your bread." 16Moreover, he said to me, "Son of man, behold, I will break the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay. 17I will do this that they may lack bread and water, and look at one another in dismay, and rot away because of their punishment.
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The Quran, Yusuf Ali Translation
Verse 2:172,
O ye who believe! Eat of the good things that we have provided for you, and be grateful to Allah, if it is him ye worship.
Verse 7:31
O children of Adam! Wear your beautiful apparel at every time and place of prayer: eat and drink: but waste not by excess, for Allah loveth not the wasters.
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Back to my question to the smart and interested reader:
Are the Scholars truthful when they claim that the Quran quoted from the Bible?
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