Ezekiel 4:10

And thou shalt eat thy food by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat them.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.

In Context

9Take thou also to thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and bread corn; and thou shalt cast them into one earthen vessel, and shalt make them into loaves for thyself; and thou shalt eat them a hundred and ninety days, according to the number of the days during which thou sleepest on thy side.

11And thou shalt drink water by measure, even from time to time thou shalt drink the sixth part of a hin.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:26When I afflict you with famine of bread, then ten women shall bake your loaves in one oven, and they shall render your loaves by weight; and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.

Isaiah 3:1Behold now, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will take away from Jerusalem and from Judea the mighty man and mighty woman, the strength of bread, and the strength of water,

Ezekiel 12:18Son of man, eat thy bread with sorrow, and drink thy water with torment and affliction.

Ezekiel 45:12And the weights shall be twenty oboli, your pound shall be five shekels, fifteen shekels and fifty shekels.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 4:10-17

The Representation of a Famine. ( b. c. 595.) 9 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof. 10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it. 11 Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time… Read the whole commentary →

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