Ezekiel 4:10

You are to weigh out twenty shekels of food to eat each day, and you are to eat it at set times.

Majority Standard Bible

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

9But take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side.

11You are also to measure out a sixth of a hin of water to drink, and you are to drink it at set times.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:26When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

Isaiah 3:1For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of food and water,

Ezekiel 12:18“Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with quivering and anxiety.

Ezekiel 45:12The shekel will consist of twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels will equal one mina.

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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