Ezekiel 4:10

10 The food that you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; 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 See, I am putting cords on you so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have completed the days of your siege.

9 And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them into one vessel, and make bread for yourself. During the number of days that you lie on your side, three hundred ninety days, you shall eat it.

10 The food that you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; at fixed times you shall eat it.

11 And you shall drink water by measure, one-sixth of a hin; at fixed times you shall drink.

12 You shall eat it as a barley-cake, baking it in their sight on human dung.