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Ezekiel Chapter 4 verse 10 Holy Bible

ASV Ezekiel 4:10

And thy food which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
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BBE Ezekiel 4:10

And you are to take your food by weight, twenty shekels a day: you are to take it at regular times.
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DARBY Ezekiel 4:10

And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
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KJV Ezekiel 4:10

And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
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WBT Ezekiel 4:10

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WEB Ezekiel 4:10

Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shall you eat it.
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YLT Ezekiel 4:10

And thy food that thou dost eat `is' by weight, twenty shekels daily; from time to time thou dost eat it.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 10. - Thy meat, etc.; better, food, here and elsewhere. Coarse as the food was, the people would have but scanty rations of it. Men were not, as usual, to measure the corn, but to weigh the bread (Leviticus 26:26). Taking the shekel at about 220 grains, the twenty shekels would be about 10 or 12 ounces. The common allowance in England for prison or pauper dietaries gives, I believe from 24 to 32 ounces, Besides other food. And this was to be taken, not as hunger prompted, but at the appointed hour. once a day. The whole scene of the people of the besieged city coming for their daily rations is brought vividly before us.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(10) By weight, twenty shekels a day.--The weight of the shekel is somewhat differently estimated by different authorities. The best computations fix it at about 220 grains, and this would make the allowance of twenty shekels equal to something less than eleven ounces, scarcely enough to sustain life. "Meat" is here used, as often in Scripture, of any kind of food. The extreme scarcity of food is also denoted by its being weighed rather than measured. "From time to time" means at set intervals of time (see 1Chronicles 9:25), here doubtless once a day. Only the longer period of 390 days is here mentioned, but the same command doubtless applied to both periods.