Ezekiel 4:10
Good News Translation
You will be allowed eight ounces of bread a day, and it will have to last until the next day.

New Revised Standard Version
The food that you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; at fixed times you shall eat it.

Contemporary English Version
Eat only a small loaf of bread each day

New American Bible
The food you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; each day you shall eat it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thy meat that thou shalt eat, shall be in weight twenty staters a day: from time to time thou shalt eat it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And thy meat that thou shalt eat, shall be in weight twenty staters a day: from time to time thou shalt eat it.

Ezekiel 4:16 And he said to me: Son of man: Behold, I will break in pieces the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care: and they shall drink water by measure, and in distress.

Ezekiel 14:13 Son of man, when a land shall sin against me, so as to transgress grievously, I will stretch forth my hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof: and I will send famine upon it, and will destroy man and beast out of it.

Leviticus 26:26 After I shall have broken the staff of your bread: so that ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and give it out by weight: and you shall eat, and shall not be filled,

Deuteronomy 28:51 And will devour the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruits of thy land: until thou be destroyed, and will leave thee no wheat, nor wine, nor oil, nor herds of oxen, nor flocks of sheep: until he destroy thee.

Isaiah 3:1 For behold the sovereign Lord of hosts shall take away from Jerusalem, and from Juda the valiant and the strong, the whole strength of bread, and the whole strength of water.

Context
The Defiled Bread
9And take to thee wheat and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side: three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof. 10And thy meat that thou shalt eat, shall be in weight twenty staters a day: from time to time thou shalt eat it.11And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time thou shalt drink it,…
Cross References
Jeremiah 32:9
And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that is in Anathoth: and I weighed him the money, seven staters, and ten pieces of silver.

Ezekiel 4:11
And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time thou shalt drink it,

Ezekiel 4:16
And he said to me: Son of man: Behold, I will break in pieces the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care: and they shall drink water by measure, and in distress.

Ezekiel 45:12
And the sicle hath twenty obols. Now twenty sicles, and five and twenty sicles, and fifteen sicles, make a mna,

Ezekiel 4:9
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