Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied. New Living Translation I will destroy your food supply, so that ten women will need only one oven to bake bread for their families. They will ration your food by weight, and though you have food to eat, you will not be satisfied. English Standard Version When I break your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied. Berean Standard Bible When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied. King James Bible And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied. New King James Version When I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back your bread by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied. New American Standard Bible When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread in rationed amounts, so that you will eat and not be satisfied. NASB 1995 ‘When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread in rationed amounts, so that you will eat and not be satisfied. NASB 1977 ‘When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread in rationed amounts, so that you will eat and not be satisfied. Legacy Standard Bible When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread by rationed weight so that you will eat and not become full. Amplified Bible When I break your staff of bread [that is, cut off your supply of food], ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will ration your bread; and you will eat and not be satisfied. Christian Standard Bible When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and ration out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied. Holman Christian Standard Bible When I cut off your supply of bread, 10 women will bake your bread in a single oven and ration out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.” American Standard Version When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied. Contemporary English Version You will have such a shortage of bread, that ten women will be able to bake their bread in the same oven. Each of you will get only a few crumbs, and you will go hungry. English Revised Version When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied. GOD'S WORD® Translation I will destroy your food supply. Ten women will need only one oven to prepare your food. You will eat and go away hungry. Good News Translation I will cut off your food supply, so that ten women will need only one oven to bake all the bread they have. They will ration it out, and when you have eaten it all, you will still be hungry. International Standard Version When I destroy the source of your bread, ten women will bake bread in one oven. Then they'll return back your bread by weight. You'll eat but won't be satisfied. Majority Standard Bible When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied. NET Bible When I break off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, and you will eat and not be satisfied. New Heart English Bible When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied. Webster's Bible Translation And when I have broke the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied. World English Bible When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionIn My breaking your staff of bread, then ten women have baked your bread in one oven, and have given back your bread by weight; and you have eaten and are not satisfied. Young's Literal Translation 'In My breaking to you the staff of bread, then ten women have baked your bread in one oven, and have given back your bread by weight; and ye have eaten, and are not satisfied. Smith's Literal Translation In my breaking to you the rod of bread, and ten women baked your bread in one oven, and they returned your bread by weight: and ye ate, and ye shall not be satisfied. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleAfter I shall have broken the staff of your bread: so that ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and give it out by weight: and you shall eat, and shall not be filled. Catholic Public Domain Version After this, I will have broken the staff of your bread, so that ten women bake bread in one oven, and distribute it by weight. And you shall eat and not be filled. New American Bible When I break your staff of bread, ten women will need but one oven for baking your bread, and they shall dole it out to you by weight; and though you eat, you shall not be satisfied. New Revised Standard Version When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven, and they shall dole out your bread by weight; and though you eat, you shall not be satisfied. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleAnd when I have broken the staff of your grain, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread by weight; and you shall eat and not be satisfied. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated And I shall break the stalk of your grain and ten women shall bake your bread in one oven and they shall give to you bread by weight, and you shall eat and you shall not be satisfied. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight; and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied. Brenton Septuagint Translation When I afflict you with famine of bread, then ten women shall bake your loaves in one oven, and they shall render your loaves by weight; and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Punishments for Disobedience…25And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy. 26When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied. 27But if in spite of all this you do not obey Me, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,… Cross References Deuteronomy 28:52-53 They will besiege all the cities throughout your land, until the high and fortified walls in which you trust have fallen. They will besiege all your cities throughout the land that the LORD your God has given you. / Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you. Ezekiel 4:16-17 Then 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. / So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled at the sight of one another wasting away in their iniquity. Isaiah 3:1 For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of food and water, Jeremiah 14:1-4 This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought: / “Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem. / The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads. ... Lamentations 4:4-10 The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any. / Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps. / The punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than that of Sodom, which was overthrown in an instant without a hand turned to help her. ... 2 Kings 6:25-29 So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter cab of dove’s dung sold for five shekels of silver. / As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help me, my lord the king!” / He answered, “If the LORD does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or the winepress?” ... Jeremiah 19:9 I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’ Ezekiel 5:16-17 When I shower you with the deadly arrows of famine and destruction that I will send to destroy you, I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply of food. / I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken.” Amos 4:6 “I afflicted all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD. Micah 6:14 You will eat but not be satisfied, and your hunger will remain with you. What you acquire, you will not preserve; and what you save, I will give to the sword. Matthew 24:7 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. Luke 21:11 There will be great earthquakes, famines, and pestilences in various places, along with fearful sights and great signs from heaven. Revelation 6:5-6 And when the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” Then I looked and saw a black horse, and its rider held in his hand a pair of scales. / And I heard what sounded like a voice from among the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and do not harm the oil and wine.” Mark 13:8 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, as well as famines. These are the beginning of birth pains. John 6:35 Jesus answered, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst. Treasury of Scripture And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied. Psalm 105:16 Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread. Isaiah 3:1 For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, Isaiah 9:20 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm: Jump to Previous Able Amounts Bake Baked Bread Break Breaking Broke Broken Cooking Cut Deliver Dole Eat Eaten Food Life Measured Oven Rationed Satisfied Staff Supply Ten Weight WomenJump to Next Able Amounts Bake Baked Bread Break Breaking Broke Broken Cooking Cut Deliver Dole Eat Eaten Food Life Measured Oven Rationed Satisfied Staff Supply Ten Weight WomenLeviticus 26 1. Of idolatry2. Reverence 3. A blessing to those who keep the commandments 14. A curse to those who break them 40. God promises to remember those who repent When I cut off your supply of bread This phrase signifies a divine action of judgment. The Hebrew root for "cut off" is "שָׁבַר" (shabar), which can mean to break or destroy. In the context of ancient Israel, bread was a staple of life, symbolizing sustenance and provision. The cutting off of bread supply indicates a severe famine or scarcity, a direct consequence of disobedience to God's covenant. Historically, bread was central to the diet, and its absence would have been a dire situation, emphasizing the seriousness of turning away from God's commands. ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight so that you will eat but not be satisfied Ten women shall bake your bread in one oven.--Better, then ten women, &c., that is, so great will be the famine when God cuts off the supply, that one ordinary oven will suffice to bake the bread of ten families, who are represented by their ten women, whilst in ordinary times one oven was only sufficient for one family. . . . Hebrew When I cut offבְּשִׁבְרִ֣י (bə·šiḇ·rî) Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | first person common singular Strong's 7665: To break, break in pieces your supply מַטֵּה־ (maṭ·ṭêh-) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 4294: A staff, rod, shaft, branch, a tribe of bread, לֶחֶם֒ (le·ḥem) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3899: Food, bread, grain ten עֶ֣שֶׂר (‘e·śer) Number - feminine singular construct Strong's 6235: Ten women נָשִׁ֤ים (nā·šîm) Noun - feminine plural Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female will bake וְ֠אָפוּ (wə·’ā·p̄ū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural Strong's 644: To cook, to bake your bread לַחְמְכֶם֙ (laḥ·mə·ḵem) Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 3899: Food, bread, grain in a single אֶחָ֔ד (’e·ḥāḏ) Number - masculine singular Strong's 259: United, one, first oven בְּתַנּ֣וּר (bə·ṯan·nūr) Preposition-b | Noun - common singular Strong's 8574: (portable) stove, firepot and dole out וְהֵשִׁ֥יבוּ (wə·hê·šî·ḇū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again your bread לַחְמְכֶ֖ם (laḥ·mə·ḵem) Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 3899: Food, bread, grain by weight, בַּמִּשְׁקָ֑ל (bam·miš·qāl) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 4948: Weight, weighing so that you will eat וַאֲכַלְתֶּ֖ם (wa·’ă·ḵal·tem) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural Strong's 398: To eat but not וְלֹ֥א (wə·lō) Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no be satisfied. תִשְׂבָּֽעוּ׃ (ṯiś·bā·‘ū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural Strong's 7646: To be sated, satisfied or surfeited Links Leviticus 26:26 NIVLeviticus 26:26 NLT Leviticus 26:26 ESV Leviticus 26:26 NASB Leviticus 26:26 KJV Leviticus 26:26 BibleApps.com Leviticus 26:26 Biblia Paralela Leviticus 26:26 Chinese Bible Leviticus 26:26 French Bible Leviticus 26:26 Catholic Bible OT Law: Leviticus 26:26 When I break your staff of bread (Le Lv Lev.) |