Ezekiel 4:10
What does Ezekiel 4:10 mean?
A plain-English look at Ezekiel 4:10 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And thy food which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And thy food which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And you are to take your food by weight, twenty shekels a day: you are to take it at regular times.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And thy food that thou dost eat <FI>is<Fi> by weight, twenty shekels daily; from time to time thou dost eat it.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And thy meat that thou shalt eat, shall be in weight twenty staters a day: from time to time thou shalt eat it.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
Context
v.9Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, 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, even three hundred and ninety days, shalt thou eat thereof.
v.10This passage
v.11And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ezekiel 4:16
Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:
- Ezekiel 45:12
And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
- Isaiah 3:1
For, behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water;
- Ezekiel 14:13
Son of man, when a land sinneth against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand upon it, and break the staff of the bread thereof, and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast;
- Deuteronomy 28:51
and shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, until thou be destroyed; that also shall not leave thee grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of thy cattle, or the young of thy flock, until they have caused thee to perish.
- Leviticus 26:26
When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
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