And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.
Thou shalt bake it with dung - as fuel; so the Arabs use beasts' dung, wood-fuel being scarce. But to use human dung so implies the most cruel necessity. It was in violation of the law for the removal of human dung far from the camp, as unclean and defiling the people, in the midst of whose camps the Lord their God walked (Deuteronomy 14:3; Deuteronomy 23:12-14); it must therefore have been done only in vision.