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the Week of Proper 6 / Ordinary 11
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Good News Translation

Ezekiel 4:11

You will also have a limited amount of water to drink, two cups a day.

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.
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.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And thou shalt drink water by measure, even from time to time thou shalt drink the sixth part of a hin.
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 "Now take some wheat, barley, beans, peas, millet, and spelt. Mix them all together and make bread. That is what you are to eat during the 390 days you are lying on your left side. 10 You will be allowed eight ounces of bread a day, and it will have to last until the next day. 11 You will also have a limited amount of water to drink, two cups a day. 12 You are to build a fire out of dried human excrement, bake bread on the fire, and eat it where everyone can see you." 13 The Lord said, "This represents the way the Israelites will have to eat food which the Law forbids, when I scatter them to foreign countries." 14 But I replied, "No, Sovereign Lord ! I have never defiled myself. From childhood on I have never eaten meat from any animal that died a natural death or was killed by wild animals. I have never eaten any food considered unclean." 15 So God said, "Very well. I will let you use cow dung instead, and you can bake your bread on that." 16 And he added, "Mortal man, I am going to cut off the supply of bread for Jerusalem. The people there will be distressed and anxious as they measure out the food they eat and the water they drink. 17 They will run out of bread and water; they will be in despair, and they will waste away because of their sins."

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
Then the Lord God said to the snake, "You will be punished for this; you alone of all the animals must bear this curse: From now on you will crawl on your belly, and you will have to eat dust as long as you live.
Genesis 4:14
You are driving me off the land and away from your presence. I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth, and anyone who finds me will kill me."
Genesis 4:15
But the Lord answered, "No. If anyone kills you, seven lives will be taken in revenge." So the Lord put a mark on Cain to warn anyone who met him not to kill him.
Genesis 4:16
And Cain went away from the Lord 's presence and lived in a land called "Wandering," which is east of Eden.
Genesis 4:19
Lamech had two wives, Adah and Zillah.
Genesis 4:20
Adah gave birth to Jabal, who was the ancestor of those who raise livestock and live in tents.
Genesis 4:21
His brother was Jubal, the ancestor of all musicians who play the harp and the flute.
Genesis 4:26
Seth had a son whom he named Enosh. It was then that people began using the Lord 's holy name in worship.
Job 16:18
O Earth, don't hide the wrongs done to me! Don't let my call for justice be silenced!
Isaiah 26:21
The Lord is coming from his heavenly dwelling place to punish the people of the earth for their sins. The murders that were secretly committed on the earth will be revealed, and the ground will no longer hide those who have been killed.

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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