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The Defiled Bread

Ezekiel 4:11

In 11 translations

BSB
You are also to measure out a sixth of a hin of water to drink, and you are to drink it at set times.A sixth of a hin is approximately 0.65 quarts or 0.61 liters of water.
KJV
Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
WEB
You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin. From time to time you shall drink.A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons.
ASV
And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
LSV
And you drink water by measure, a sixth part of the hin; from time to time you drink [it].
YLT
'And water by measure thou dost drink, a sixth part of the hin; from time to time thou dost drink [it].
DBY
And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
DRC
And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time thou shalt drink it,
GNV
Thou shalt drinke also water by measure, euen the sixt part of an Hin: from time to time shalt thou drinke.
JPS
Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of a hin; from time to time shalt thou drink.
LXXE
And thou shalt drink water by measure, even from time to time thou shalt drink the sixth part of a hin.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וּמַ֛יִם בִּמְשׂוּרָ֥ה תִשְׁתֶּ֖ה שִׁשִּׁ֣ית הַהִ֑ין מֵעֵ֥ת עַד־עֵ֖ת תִּשְׁתֶּֽה׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ ὕδωρ ἐν μέτρῳ πίεσαι, καὶ τὸ ἕκτον τοῦ εἲν ἀπὸ καιροῦ ἕως καιροῦ πίεσαι.

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  • John 3:34For the One whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit.
  • Ezekiel 4:16Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure.
  • Isaiah 5:13Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.

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