Ezekiel 4:10
New International Version
Weigh out twenty shekels of food to eat each day and eat it at set times.

New Living Translation
Ration this out to yourself, eight ounces of food for each day, and eat it at set times.

English Standard Version
And your food that you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from day to day you shall eat it.

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

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

New King James Version
And your food which you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from time to time you shall eat it.

New American Standard Bible
Your food which you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; you shall eat it from time to time.

NASB 1995
“Your food which you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; you shall eat it from time to time.

NASB 1977
“And your food which you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; you shall eat it from time to time.

Legacy Standard Bible
And your food which you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; you shall eat it from time to time.

Amplified Bible
The food you eat each day shall be [measured] by weight, twenty shekels, to be eaten daily at a set time.

Christian Standard Bible
The food you eat each day will weigh eight ounces; you will eat it at set times.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The food you eat each day will be eight ounces by weight; you will eat it from time to time.

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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And your food shall be twenty shekels weight in a day, from time to time

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And thou shalt eat thy food by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat them.

Contemporary English Version
Eat only a small loaf of bread each day

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thy meat that thou shalt eat, shall be in weight twenty staters a day: from time to time thou shalt eat it.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The food that you eat should be weighed. Eat eight ounces of food every day at set times.

Good News Translation
You will be allowed eight ounces of bread a day, and it will have to last until the next day.

International Standard Version
The food that you'll be eating is to consist of portions weighing 20 shekels, to be consumed daily at regular intervals.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And thy food which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from time to time shalt thou eat it.

Literal Standard Version
And your food that you eat [is] by weight, twenty shekels daily; from time to time you eat it.

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

New American Bible
The food you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; each day you shall eat it.

NET Bible
The food you eat will be eight ounces a day by weight; you must eat it at fixed times.

New Revised Standard Version
The food that you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; at fixed times you shall eat it.

New Heart English Bible
Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time you shall eat it.

Webster's Bible Translation
And thy food 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.

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.

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Context
The Defiled Bread
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. 10You are to weigh out twenty shekels of food to eat each day, and you are to eat it at set times. 11You are also to measure out a sixth of a hin of water to drink, and you are to drink it at set times.…

Cross References
Jeremiah 32:9
So I bought the field in Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel, and I weighed out seventeen shekels of silver.

Ezekiel 4:11
You are also to measure out a sixth of a hin of water to drink, and you are to drink it at set times.

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.

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


Treasury of Scripture

And your meat which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shall you eat it.

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 care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:

Ezekiel 14:13
Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it:

Leviticus 26:26
And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.

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Ezekiel 4
1. Under type of a siege is shown the time from the defection of Jeroboam to captivity
9. By the provision of the siege, is shown the hardness of the famine














(10) By weight, twenty shekels a day.--The weight of the shekel is somewhat differently estimated by different authorities. The best computations fix it at about 220 grains, and this would make the allowance of twenty shekels equal to something less than eleven ounces, scarcely enough to sustain life. "Meat" is here used, as often in Scripture, of any kind of food. The extreme scarcity of food is also denoted by its being weighed rather than measured. "From time to time" means at set intervals of time (see 1Chronicles 9:25), here doubtless once a day. Only the longer period of 390 days is here mentioned, but the same command doubtless applied to both periods.

Verse 10. - Thy meat, etc.; better, food, here and elsewhere. Coarse as the food was, the people would have but scanty rations of it. Men were not, as usual, to measure the corn, but to weigh the bread (Leviticus 26:26). Taking the shekel at about 220 grains, the twenty shekels would be about 10 or 12 ounces. The common allowance in England for prison or pauper dietaries gives, I believe from 24 to 32 ounces, Besides other food. And this was to be taken, not as hunger prompted, but at the appointed hour. once a day. The whole scene of the people of the besieged city coming for their daily rations is brought vividly before us.

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Hebrew
You are to weigh out
בְּמִשְׁק֕וֹל (bə·miš·qō·wl)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4946: Heaviness, weight

twenty
עֶשְׂרִ֥ים (‘eś·rîm)
Number - common plural
Strong's 6242: Twenty, twentieth

shekels
שֶׁ֖קֶל (še·qel)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 8255: A weight, a commercial standard

of food
וּמַאֲכָֽלְךָ֙ (ū·ma·’ă·ḵā·lə·ḵā)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3978: An eatable

to eat
תֹּאכֲלֶ֔נּוּ (tō·ḵă·len·nū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 398: To eat

each day,
לַיּ֑וֹם (lay·yō·wm)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3117: A day

and you are to eat it
תֹּאכֲלֶֽנּוּ׃ (tō·ḵă·len·nū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 398: To eat

at set times.
מֵעֵ֥ת (mê·‘êṯ)
Preposition-m | Noun - common singular
Strong's 6256: Time, now, when


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