Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
Your food which you eat shall be
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,
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.
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 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, 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, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof. 10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it. 11 Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
Phrases
Cross References
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.
Deuteronomy 28:51-68
And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.
Isaiah 3:1
For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,
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:
Ezekiel 45:12
And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.