Ezekiel 4:10

And thy food that thou dost eat [is] by weight, twenty shekels daily; from time to time thou dost eat it.

Young's Literal Translation

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

9'And thou, take to thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and spelt, and thou hast put them in one vessel, and made them to thee for bread; the number of the days that thou art lying on thy side — three hundred and ninety days — thou dost eat it.

11'And water by measure thou dost drink, a sixth part of the hin; from time to time thou dost drink [it].

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:26'In My breaking to you the staff of bread, then ten women have baked your bread in one oven, and have given back your bread by weight; and ye have eaten, and are not satisfied.

Isaiah 3:1For, lo, the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Is turning aside from Jerusalem, And from Judah, stay and staff, Every stay of bread, and every stay of water.

Ezekiel 12:18'Son of man, thy bread in haste thou dost eat, and thy water with trembling and with fear thou dost drink;

Ezekiel 45:12And, the shekel [is] twenty gerah: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels — is your maneh.

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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