# What did Yahweh tell Ezekiel to eat and drink while he lay on his side? Yahweh told Ezekiel to eat barley cakes and to drink water. # Why did Yahweh tell Ezekiel to bake using human excrement within the sight of the house of Israel? Ezekiel was to bake using human excrement as a sign that the food the people of Israel would eat among the nations would be unclean.