Ezekiel 4:10

10 And your food that you will eat [will be] according to weight; twenty shekels for each day {at fixed times} you shall eat it.

Ezekiel 4:10 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 4:10

And thy meat which thou shall eat [shall be] by weight, twenty
shekels a day
To eat bread by weight was a sign of a grievous famine; see ( Leviticus 26:26 ) ; a shekel, according to Josephus ^F9, weighed four Attic drachms, or half an ounce, wherefore twenty shekels weighed ten ounces; so that the bread the prophet had to eat was but ten ounces a day: from time to time shall thou eat it;
at the certain time of eating, or but once a day; from a set time in one day to the same in another; as from morning to morning, or from noon to noon, or from evening to evening; see ( Jeremiah 37:21 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 Antiqu. l. 3. c. 8. sect. 2.

Ezekiel 4:10 In-Context

8 Now look! I [will] put on you cords, and you may not turn yourself from [one] side to your [other] side until you complete the days of your siege.

9 "And you, take for yourself wheat and barley and beans and lentils and millet and spelt, and you must put them in one vessel, and you must make them for yourself into a food [during] the number of days that you [are] lying on your side; three hundred and ninety days you shall eat it.

10 And your food that you will eat [will be] according to weight; twenty shekels for each day {at fixed times} you shall eat it.

11 And {an amount of water} you shall drink, a sixth of a hin; {at fixed times} you shall drink [it].

12 And [as a] bread-cake of barley you shall eat it, and {with human excrement} you shall bake it before their eyes."

Footnotes

• [a]. Hebrew "will eat it"
• [b]. Literally "from time to time"