Take—wheat, &c.— In time of scarcity, it is usual to mix a great deal of the coarse kinds of grain with a little of the better sort, to make the provisions last the longer. Ezekiel was commanded to do this, to signify the scarcity which the inhabitants should suffer during the siege. The twenty shekels, in the next verse, amount to about ten ounces; and the sixth part of an hin, Ezekiel 4:11 is about a pint and a half. See Cumberland's Weights and Measures.
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Ezekiel 4:9
9 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches,b and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.