Ezekiel 4:8-10
Common English Bible
8 I’ve now bound you with cords so that you can’t turn from one side to the other until you have completed the days of your siege.
9 You, gather some wheat and barley, beans and lentils, and millet and spelt. Put them in a bowl and make your bread from them. Eat it during the three hundred ninety days that you lie on your side. 10 At fixed times you will eat your food by weight, fourteen ounces a day.[a]
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- Ezekiel 4:10 Or twenty shekels
Ezekiel 4:8-10
New King James Version
8 (A)And surely I will [a]restrain you so that you cannot turn from one side to another till you have ended the days of your siege.
9 “Also take for yourself wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them into one vessel, and make bread of them for yourself. During the number of days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat it. 10 And your food which you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from time to time you shall eat it.
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- Ezekiel 4:8 Lit. put ropes on
Ezekiel 4:8-10
English Standard Version
8 And behold, (A)I will place cords upon you, so that you cannot turn from one side to the other, till you have completed (B)the days of your siege.
9 “And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and emmer,[a] and put them into a single vessel and make your (C)bread from them. (D)During the number of days that you lie on your side, (E)390 days, you shall eat it. 10 And your food that you eat shall be (F)by weight, (G)twenty shekels[b] a day; from day to day[c] you shall eat it.
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- Ezekiel 4:9 A type of wheat
- Ezekiel 4:10 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
- Ezekiel 4:10 Or at a set time daily; also verse 11
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