Parallel Verses
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.
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,
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.
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.
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 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. 11 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. 12 Barley cakes shalt thou eat, yet shalt thou first strike them over with man's dung, that they may see it."
Cross References
Isaiah 5:13
Therefore cometh my folk also in captivity, because they have no understanding. Their glory is famished with hunger, and their pride is marred for thirst.
Ezekiel 4:16
And he said unto me, "Behold thou son of man, I will minish all the provision of bread in Jerusalem, so that they shall weigh their bread, and eat it with scarceness. But as for water, they shall have a very little measure thereof, to drink.
John 3:34
For he whom God hath sent, speaketh the words of God. For God giveth not the spirit by measure.