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Brenton's Septuagint

Ezekiel 4:11

And thou shalt drink water by measure, even from time to time thou shalt drink the sixth part of a hin.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Instruction;   Measure;   Symbols and Similitudes;   Water;   Thompson Chain Reference - Hin;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Measures;   Prophets;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Drink;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Beyond the River;   Ezekiel;   Gestures;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Weights and Measures;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Bread;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Measure;   Water;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You will also drink a ration of water, a sixth of a gallon, which you will drink at set times.
Hebrew Names Version
You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shall you drink.
King James Version
Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
English Standard Version
And water you shall drink by measure, the sixth part of a hin; from day to day you shall drink.
New American Standard Bible
"The water you drink shall be a sixth of a hin by measure; you shall drink it from time to time.
New Century Version
You will drink about two-thirds of a quart of water every day at set times.
Amplified Bible
"You shall drink water by measure also, the sixth part of a hin; you shall drink daily at a set time.
World English Bible
You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shall you drink.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou shalt drinke also water by measure, euen the sixt part of an Hin: from time to time shalt thou drinke.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The water you drink shall be the sixth part of a hin by measure; you shall drink it from time to time.
Legacy Standard Bible
The water you drink shall be the sixth part of a hin by measure; you shall drink it from time to time.
Berean Standard Bible
You are also to measure out a sixth of a hin of water to drink, and you are to drink it at set times.
Contemporary English Version
and drink only two large cups of water.
Complete Jewish Bible
You are also to drink a limited amount of water, two-thirds of a quart; you may drink it from time to time [during the day].
Darby Translation
And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
Easy-to-Read Version
You can drink only 3 cups of water each day. You can drink it from time to time throughout the day.
George Lamsa Translation
And you shall drink water by measure, a sixth part of a hin; from time to time shall you drink.
Good News Translation
You will also have a limited amount of water to drink, two cups a day.
Lexham English Bible
And an amount of water you shall drink, a sixth of a hin; at fixed times you shall drink it.
Literal Translation
And you shall drink water by measure: the sixth part of a hin. From time to time you shall drink.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thon shalt dryncke also a certayne measure off water: Namely, the sixte parte of an Hin shalt thou drynke daylie from the begynnynge to the ende.
American Standard Version
And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
Bible in Basic English
And you are to take water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: you are to take it at regular times.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of a hin; from time to time shalt thou drink.
King James Version (1611)
Thou shalt drinke also water by measure, the sixt part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drinke.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou shalt drinke also a certaine measure of water [namely] the sixt [part] of an Hin from tyme to tyme shalt thou drinke.
English Revised Version
And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thou schalt drynke watir in mesure, the sixte part of hyn; fro tyme til to tyme thou schalt drynke it.
Update Bible Version
And you shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time you shall drink.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
New English Translation
And you must drink water by measure, a pint and a half; you must drink it at fixed times.
New King James Version
You shall also drink water by measure, one-sixth of a hin; from time to time you shall drink.
New Living Translation
Then measure out a jar of water for each day, and drink it at set times.
New Life Bible
And the water you drink each day will be enough to fill a bottle. You will drink it from time to time.
New Revised Standard
And you shall drink water by measure, one-sixth of a hin; at fixed times you shall drink.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and water by measure, shalt thou drink the sixth part of a hin,-from time to time shalt thou drink;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time thou shalt drink it,
Revised Standard Version
And water you shall drink by measure, the sixth part of a hin; once a day you shall drink.
Young's Literal Translation
`And water by measure thou dost drink, a sixth part of the hin; from time to time thou dost drink [it].

Contextual Overview

9 Take thou also to thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and bread-corn; and thou shalt cast them into one earthen vessel, and shalt make them into loaves for thyself; and thou shalt eat them a hundred and ninety days, according to the number of the days during which thou sleepest on thy side. 10 And thou shalt eat thy food by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat them. 11 And thou shalt drink water by measure, even from time to time thou shalt drink the sixth part of a hin. 12 And thou shalt eat them as a barley cake: thou shalt bake them before their eyes in man’s dung. 13 And thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel; Thus shall the children of Israel eat unclean things among the Gentiles. 14 Then I said, Not so, Lord God of Israel: surely my soul has not been defiled with uncleanness; nor have I eaten, that which died of itself or was torn of beasts from my birth until now; neither has any corrupt flesh entered into my mouth. 15 And he said to me, Behold, I have given thee dung of oxen instead of man’s dung, and thou shalt prepare thy loaves upon it. 16 And he said to me, Son of man, behold, I break the support of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight and in want; and shall drink water by measure, and in a state of ruin: 17 that they may want bread and water; and a man and his brother shall be brought to ruin, and they shall pine away in their iniquities.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

shalt drink: Ezekiel 4:16, Isaiah 5:13, John 3:34

Reciprocal: Exodus 29:40 - hin Leviticus 23:13 - the fourth

Cross-References

Genesis 3:14
And the Lord God said to the woman, Why hast thou done this? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me and I ate.
Genesis 4:14
If thou castest me out this day from the face of the earth, and I shall be hidden from thy presence, and I shall be groaning and trembling upon the earth, then it will be that any one that finds me shall slay me.
Genesis 4:15
And the Lord God said to him, Not so, any one that slays Cain shall suffer seven-fold vengeance; and the Lord God set a mark upon Cain that no one that found him might slay him.
Genesis 4:16
So Cain went forth from the presence of God and dwelt in the land of Nod over against Edem.
Genesis 4:19
And Lamech took to himself two wives; the name of the one was Ada, and the name of the second Sella.
Genesis 4:20
And Ada bore Jobel; he was the father of those that dwell in tents, feeding cattle.
Genesis 4:21
And the name of his brother was Jubal; he it was who invented the psaltery and harp.
Genesis 4:26
And Seth had a son, and he called his name Enos: he hoped to call on the name of the Lord God.
Job 16:18
Yet there was no injustice in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
Isaiah 26:21
For, behold, the Lord is bringing wrath from his holy place upon the dwellers on the earth: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall not cover her slain.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou shall drink also water by measure,.... Not wine, but water; and this not as much as he would, but a certain measure; which shows great want of it, and expresses a very distressed condition see Lamentations 5:4;

the sixth part of an hin; a hin held twelve logs, or seventy two egg shells, or about three quarts of our measure; and the sixth part of one were two logs, or twelve egg shells, and about a pint of our measure; so that it was but a pint of water a day that the prophet was allowed, as a token of the great scarcity of it in the siege of Jerusalem:

from time to time shalt thou drink: as before.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Water by measure - This probably corresponds to the water of affliction 1 Kings 22:27; Isaiah 30:20. The measure of the hin is variously estimated by Jewish writers. The sixth part of a hin will be according to one estimate about 610ths, according to another 910ths of a pint. The lesser estimate is more suitable here.


 
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