Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
And you are to take water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: you are to take it at regular times.
New American Standard Bible
The water you drink shall be the sixth part of a hin by measure; you shall drink it from time to time.
King James Version
Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
Holman Bible
You are also to drink water by measure, a sixth of a gallon,
International Standard Version
You are to measure one sixth of one hin of water each time you drink it.
A Conservative Version
And thou shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin. Thou shall drink from time to time.
American Standard Version
And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
Amplified
You shall drink water by measure also,
Darby Translation
And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
Julia Smith Translation
And water by measure shalt thou drink, the sixth of the bin: from time even to time shalt thou drink.
King James 2000
You shall drink also water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shall you drink.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And {an amount of water} you shall drink, a sixth of a hin; {at fixed times} you shall drink [it].
Modern King James verseion
You shall also drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin. From time to time you shall drink.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou shalt drink also a certain measure of water: Namely, the sixth part of a Hin shalt thou drink daily from the beginning to the end.
NET Bible
And you must drink water by measure, a pint and a half; you must drink it at fixed times.
New Heart English Bible
You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time you shall drink.
The Emphasized Bible
and water by measure, shalt thou drink the sixth part of a hin,-from time to time shalt thou drink;
Webster
Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
World English Bible
You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time you shall drink.
Youngs Literal Translation
And water by measure thou dost drink, a sixth part of the hin; from time to time thou dost drink it.
Themes
Instruction » Eating bread mixed with dung
Measures » Illustrative » (drinking water, by measure) of severe famine
Symbols and similitudes » Cooking
Interlinear
Mayim
References
Watsons
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 4:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Ezekiel's Strange Defiled Meal
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. 12 And let your food be barley cakes, cooking it before their eyes with the waste which comes out of a man.
Cross References
Isaiah 5:13
For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need 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:
John 3:34
For he whom God has sent says God's words; and God does not give him the Spirit by measure.