Parallel Verses

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.

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 by weight; you will eat it from time to time.

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, twenty shekels, to be eaten daily at a set time.

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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
מאכל 
Ma'akal 
Usage: 30

which thou shalt eat
אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

shall be by weight
משׁקול 
Mishqowl 
Usage: 1

עשׂרים 
`esriym 
Usage: 315

שׁקל 
Sheqel 
Usage: 88

a day
יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

עת 
`eth 
Usage: 296

to time
עת 
`eth 
Usage: 296

shalt thou eat
אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

References

Watsons

Context Readings

Ezekiel's Strange Defiled Meal

9 "And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and emmer, and put them into a single vessel and make your bread from them. During the number of days that you lie on your side, days, you shall eat it. 10 Your food which you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; you shall eat it from time to time. 11 And water you shall drink by measure, the sixth part of a hin; from day to day you shall drink.

Cross References

Leviticus 26:26

When I break your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.

Deuteronomy 28:51-68

It shall eat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; it also shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.

Isaiah 3:1

For behold, the Lord GOD of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water;

Ezekiel 4:16

Moreover, he said to me, "Son of man, behold, I will break the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay.

Ezekiel 14:13

"Son of man, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it and break its supply of bread and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast,

Ezekiel 45:12

The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.

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