Parallel Verses
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.
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 Weigh out eight ounces of food for each day and eat it at set times. 11 The water you drink shall be the sixth part of a hin by measure; you shall drink it from time to time. 12 You are to build a fire out of dried human excrement, bake bread on the fire, and eat it where everyone can see you.
Cross References
Isaiah 5:13
My people will go into exile because they do not understand what I am doing. Honored men will starve, and common people will be parched with thirst.
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.
John 3:34
For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God. God does not give the spirit by measure.