Millet

Millet appears once in scripture, as one of the grains and pulses prescribed for Ezekiel's siege-bread sign.

A Grain in Ezekiel's Sign-Act

The prophet is told to combine millet with several other ingredients into a single rationed loaf for the duration of his prone-lying sign: "You take also to yourself wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make yourself bread of them; [according to] the number of the days that you will lie on your side, even three hundred and ninety days, you will eat of it" (Eze 4:9). The mixed bread, with millet alongside the staple grains and legumes, dramatizes the meager, scraped-together rations of a city under siege.