Ezekiel 4:10

Translations

Modern

You are to weigh out twenty shekels of food to eat each day, and you are to eat it at set times.

Traditional

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

Literal

And your food that you eat is by weight twenty shekels for a day; from time until time you shall eat it.

Latin

Cibus autem tuus, quo vesceris, erit in pondere viginti stateres in die: a tempore usque ad tempus comedes illud.

Original

Hebrew

English

You are to weigh out twenty shekels of food to eat each day, and you are to eat it at set times.

Notes

Ezekiel 4:9–17

The near-starvation diet of eight ounces of food and a jar of water each day represents siege rations. This reflects a desperate situation where there was not enough of any one type of grain to make a whole loaf.

Ezekiel 4:1–7:27

These chapters discuss words and actions that warned of disaster for Jerusalem (Ezekiel 4–5) and the land of Judah (Ezekiel 6–7).

Theme notes and profiles

Prophetic Sign Acts The Gift of Prophecy

Events

Prophecies of Ezekielc. 593 BC

Measurements

twenty shekels of food: About 8 oz (228 g)

Related verses

Leviticus 26:26
When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.
Ezekiel 4:16
Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure.
Ezekiel 14:13
“Son of man, if a land sins against Me by acting unfaithfully, and I stretch out My hand against it to cut off its supply of food, to send famine upon it, and to cut off from it both man and beast,
Deuteronomy 28:51–68
They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.
Isaiah 3:1
For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of food and water,
Ezekiel 45:12
The shekel will consist of twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels will equal one mina.

Glossary

Barley Ezekiel, Book of Prophet, Prophetess Son of Man

Topics

Instruction by Object Lessons: Eating Bread Mixed with Dung Prophets: Frequently in Their Actions Were Made Signs to the People Shekel used to Weigh: Rations Symbols and Similitudes: Ceremonially Unclean Food Symbols and Similitudes: Cooking Weights: Provisions Were Sold By, in Times of Scarcity

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