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Ezekiel 4:10

8 Now behold, I will tie you up with ropes so you cannot turn from side to side until you have finished the days of your siege.

9 But 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.

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

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

12 And you shall eat the food as you would a barley cake, after you bake it over dried human excrement in the sight of the people.”

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BSB
You are to weigh out twenty shekels of food to eat each day, and you are to eat it at set times.
KJV
And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
WEB
Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day. From time to time you shall eat it.
ASV
And thy food which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
DARBY
And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
BLB
And your food that you eat [is] by weight twenty shekels for a day; from time until time you shall eat it.
ÅB
Og den mat som du spiser, skal være etter vekt, tyve sekel til hver dag; fra tid til tid skal du spise den.
OTB
Maten du spiser skal veies, tjue sekel om dagen; du skal spise det til bestemte tider.
B1930
Og den mat som du eter, skal være efter vekt, tyve sekel til hver dag; fra tid til tid skal du ete den.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Leviticus 26:26

    When 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.

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  • Ezekiel 45:12

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

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  • Ezekiel 4:16

    Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure.

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  • Isaiah 3:1

    For 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,

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  • Ezekiel 14:13

    “Son of man, if a land sins against Me by acting unfaithfully, and I stretch out My hand against it to cut off its supply of food, to send famine upon it, and to cut off from it both man and beast,

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  • Deuteronomy 28:51–68

    They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.

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