Ezekiel 4:10

10 And your food that you eat shall be ¹by weight, ²twenty shekels^[a] a day; from day to day^[b] 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 And behold, I will place cords upon you, so that you cannot turn from one side to the other, till you have completed the days of your siege.

9 "And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and emmer, and put them into a single vessel and make your bread from them. During the number of days that you lie on your side, days, you shall eat it.

10 And your food that you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from day to day you shall eat it.

11 And water you shall drink by measure, the sixth part of a hin; from day to day you shall drink.

12 And you shall eat it as a barley cake, baking it in their sight on human dung."

Cross References

• 1. Ezekiel 12:19; [Jeremiah 37:21]
• 2. Ezekiel 45:12

Footnotes

• [a]. A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
• [b]. Or at a set time daily; also verse 11