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 twenty shekels a day by weight; you shall eat it from time to time.

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 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.

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.

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