Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
Your food which you eat shall be
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.
Holman Bible
The food you eat each day will be eight ounces
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.
A Conservative Version
And thy food which thou shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day. Thou shall 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.
Amplified
The food you eat each day shall be [measured] by weight,
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.
Julia Smith Translation
An thy food which thou shalt eat by weight, twenty shekels for a day: from time even to time shalt thou eat it.
King James 2000
And your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shall you eat it.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And your food that you will eat [will be] according to weight; twenty shekels for each day {at fixed times} you shall eat it.
Modern King James verseion
And your food which you shall eat shall be by weight twenty shekels a day; from time to time you shall eat it.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And the meat that thou eatest, shall have a certain weight appointed: namely twenty shekels every day. This appointed meat shalt thou eat daily, from the beginning to the end.
NET Bible
The food you eat will be eight ounces a day by weight; you must eat it at fixed times.
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.
The Emphasized Bible
and thy food which thou shalt eat shall be by weight twenty shekels a day, - from time to time, shalt thou eat it;
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
And thy food that thou dost eat is by weight, twenty shekels daily; from time to time thou dost eat it.
Themes
Instruction » Eating bread mixed with dung
Shekel » Used to weigh » Rations
Symbols and similitudes » Cooking
References
Watsons
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 4:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Ezekiel's Strange Defiled Meal
9 And take for yourself wheat and barley and different sorts of grain, and put them in one vessel and make bread for yourself from them; all the days when you are stretched on your side it will be your food. 10 And you are to take your food by weight, twenty shekels a day: you are to take it at regular times. 11 And you are to take water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: you are to take it at regular times.
Phrases
Cross References
Leviticus 26:26
When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough.
Deuteronomy 28:51-68
He will take the fruit of your cattle and of your land till death puts an end to you: he will let you have nothing of your grain or wine or oil or any of the increase of your cattle or the young of your flock, till he has made your destruction complete.
Isaiah 3:1
For the Lord, the Lord of armies, is about to take away from Jerusalem and from Judah all their support; their store of bread and of water;
Ezekiel 4:16
And he said to me, Son of man, see, I will take away from Jerusalem her necessary bread: they will take their bread by weight and with care, measuring out their drinking-water with fear and wonder:
Ezekiel 14:13
Son of man, when a land, sinning against me, does wrong, and my hand is stretched out against it, and the support of its bread is broken, and I make it short of food, cutting off man and beast from it:
Ezekiel 45:12
And the shekel is to be twenty gerahs: five shekels are five, and ten shekels are ten, and your maneh is to be fifty shekels