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Ezekiel 4:10

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

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 Le 26:26; a shekel, according to Josephus , 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 Jer 37:21.

Antiqu. l. 3. c. 8. sect.

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