Ezekiel 4:10 “You are to weigh out twenty shekels of food to eat each day, and you a…”

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day. From time to time you shall eat it.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

And the meate, whereof thou shalt eate, shalbe by weight, euen twenty shekels a day: and from time to time shalt thou eate thereof.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

And you are to take your food by weight, twenty shekels a day: you are to take it at regular times.

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Cross references

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

Leviticus 26:26 Ezekiel 4:16 Ezekiel 14:13 Deuteronomy 28:51–68 Isaiah 3:1

Leviticus 26:26 · BSB

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.

Ezekiel 4:16 · BSB

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.

Ezekiel 14:13 · BSB

“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,

Deuteronomy 28:51–68 · BSB

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…

Isaiah 3:1 · BSB

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,

Also

Ezekiel 45:12

Ezekiel 45:12 · BSB

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

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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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