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Ezekiel 4:8-10
Common English Bible
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
King James Version
Ezekiel 4:8-10
King James Version
8 And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.
9 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.
10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
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Ezekiel 4:8-10
New International Version
Ezekiel 4:8-10
New International Version
8 I will tie you up with ropes so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have finished the days of your siege.(A)
9 “Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt;(B) put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side. 10 Weigh out twenty shekels[a](C) of food to eat each day and eat it at set times.
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- Ezekiel 4:10 That is, about 8 ounces or about 230 grams
Ezekiel 4:8-10
English Standard Version
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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