Leviticus 26:26

26:26 When I break off your supply of bread, ¹  ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, ²  and you will eat and not be satisfied.

Lamentations 5:10

5:10 Our skin is hot as an oven

due to a fever from hunger. ³ 

Ezekiel 4:10

4:10 The food you eat will be eight ounces ⁴  a day by weight; you must eat it at fixed ⁵  times.

Ezekiel 4:16

4:16 Then he said to me, “Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply ⁶  in Jerusalem. ⁷  They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror

¹ tn Heb “When I break to you staff of bread” (KJV, ASV, and NASB all similar).

² tn Heb “they will return your bread in weight.”

³ tn Heb “because of the burning heat of famine.”

⁴ sn Eight ounces (Heb “twenty shekels”). The standards for weighing money varied considerably in the ancient Near East, but the generally accepted weight for the shekel is 11.5 grams (0.4 ounce). This makes the weight of grain about 230 grams here (8 ounces).

⁵ tn Heb “from time to time.”

⁶ tn Heb, “break the staff of bread.” The bread supply is compared to a staff that one uses for support.

⁷ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.