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 Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the three hundred and ninety days you lie on your side. 10 Your food which you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; you shall eat it from time to time. 11 You will also have a limited amount of water to drink, two cups a day.

Cross References

Leviticus 26:26

I will destroy your food supply. Ten women will need only one oven to prepare your food. You will eat and go away hungry.

Deuteronomy 28:51-68

They will eat the offspring of your animals and the crops from your fields until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, no new wine, no olive oil, no calves from your herds, and no lambs or kids from your flocks. They will continue to do this until you are completely desolate.

Isaiah 3:1

Jehovah of Hosts, the Almighty (Ruler) (Sovereign) is going to take all support and supply of food and water from Jerusalem and Judah.

Ezekiel 4:16

And he added: Mortal man, I am going to cut off the supply of bread for Jerusalem. The people there will be distressed and anxious as they measure out the food they eat and the water they drink.

Ezekiel 14:13

Son of man, suppose a country sins against me by being unfaithful to me. I will stretch out my hand (use my power) against it, cut off its food supply, send a famine to it, and destroy its people and animals.

Ezekiel 45:12

One shekel must weigh twenty gerahs. One mina must weigh sixty shekels.'

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