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You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/leviticus/26.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/leviticus/26.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/leviticus/26.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/leviticus/26.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br /><i>And</i> when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver <i>you</i> your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/leviticus/26.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/leviticus/26.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/leviticus/26.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8216When 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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/leviticus/26.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />‘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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/leviticus/26.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread by <i>rationed</i> weight so that you will eat and not become full.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/leviticus/26.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/leviticus/26.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/leviticus/26.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />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.&#8221 <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/leviticus/26.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/leviticus/26.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />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. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/leviticus/26.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/leviticus/26.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />I will destroy your food supply. Ten women will need only one oven to prepare your food. You will eat and go away hungry.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/leviticus/26.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />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. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/leviticus/26.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/leviticus/26.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/leviticus/26.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />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. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/leviticus/26.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/leviticus/26.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/leviticus/26.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />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. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/leviticus/26.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />In 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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/leviticus/26.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> '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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/leviticus/26.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />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.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/leviticus/26.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />After 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. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/leviticus/26.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/leviticus/26.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/leviticus/26.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />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.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/leviticus/26.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />And 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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/leviticus/26.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />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.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/leviticus/26.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/leviticus/26.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/leviticus/26-26.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NWs_V1RyMFo?start=7317" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/leviticus/26.htm">Punishments for Disobedience</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">25</span>And 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. <span class="reftext">26</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/7665.htm" title="7665: bə·šiḇ·rî (Prep-b:: V-Qal-Inf:: 1cs) -- To break, break in pieces. A primitive root; to burst.">When I cut off</a> <a href="/hebrew/lā·ḵem (Prep:: 2mp) -- ">your</a> <a href="/hebrew/4294.htm" title="4294: maṭ·ṭêh- (N-msc) -- Or mattah; from natah; a branch; figuratively, a tribe; also a rod, whether for chastising, ruling, throwing, or walking.">supply</a> <a href="/hebrew/3899.htm" title="3899: le·ḥem (N-ms) -- Bread, food. From lacham; food, especially bread, or grain.">of bread,</a> <a href="/hebrew/6235.htm" title="6235: ‘e·śer (Number-fsc) -- Ten. Masculine of term aasarah; from asar; ten.">ten</a> <a href="/hebrew/802.htm" title="802: nā·šîm (N-fp) -- Woman, wife, female. Feminine of 'iysh or 'enowsh; irregular plural, nashiym; a woman.">women</a> <a href="/hebrew/644.htm" title="644: wə·’ā·p̄ū (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-3cp) -- To bake. A primitive root; to cook, especially to bake.">will bake</a> <a href="/hebrew/3899.htm" title="3899: laḥ·mə·ḵem (N-msc:: 2mp) -- Bread, food. From lacham; food, especially bread, or grain.">your bread</a> <a href="/hebrew/259.htm" title="259: ’e·ḥāḏ (Number-ms) -- One. A numeral from 'achad; properly, united, i.e. One; or first.">in a single</a> <a href="/hebrew/8574.htm" title="8574: bə·ṯan·nūr (Prep-b:: N-cs) -- (portable) stove, firepot. From niyr; a fire-pot.">oven</a> <a href="/hebrew/7725.htm" title="7725: wə·hê·šî·ḇū (Conj-w:: V-Hifil-ConjPerf-3cp) -- A primitive root; to turn back transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively; generally to retreat; often adverbial, again.">and dole out</a> <a href="/hebrew/3899.htm" title="3899: laḥ·mə·ḵem (N-msc:: 2mp) -- Bread, food. From lacham; food, especially bread, or grain.">your bread</a> <a href="/hebrew/4948.htm" title="4948: bam·miš·qāl (Prep-b, Art:: N-ms) -- Weight. From shaqal; weight; hence, weighing.">by weight,</a> <a href="/hebrew/398.htm" title="398: wa·’ă·ḵal·tem (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-2mp) -- To eat. A primitive root; to eat.">so that you will eat</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: wə·lō (Conj-w:: Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">but not</a> <a href="/hebrew/7646.htm" title="7646: ṯiś·bā·‘ū (V-Qal-Imperf-2mp) -- To be sated, satisfied or surfeited. Or sabeay; a primitive root; to sate, i.e. Fill to satisfaction.">be satisfied.</a> </span><span class="reftext">27</span>But if in spite of all this you do not obey Me, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/28-52.htm">Deuteronomy 28:52-53</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/4-16.htm">Ezekiel 4:16-17</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/3-1.htm">Isaiah 3:1</a></span><br />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,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/14-1.htm">Jeremiah 14:1-4</a></span><br />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. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/lamentations/4-4.htm">Lamentations 4:4-10</a></span><br />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. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/6-25.htm">2 Kings 6:25-29</a></span><br />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?” ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/19-9.htm">Jeremiah 19:9</a></span><br />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.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/5-16.htm">Ezekiel 5:16-17</a></span><br />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.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/amos/4-6.htm">Amos 4:6</a></span><br />“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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/micah/6-14.htm">Micah 6:14</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/24-7.htm">Matthew 24:7</a></span><br />Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/21-11.htm">Luke 21:11</a></span><br />There will be great earthquakes, famines, and pestilences in various places, along with fearful sights and great signs from heaven.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/6-5.htm">Revelation 6:5-6</a></span><br />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.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/mark/13-8.htm">Mark 13:8</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/6-35.htm">John 6:35</a></span><br />Jesus answered, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">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.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/105-16.htm">Psalm 105:16</a></b></br> Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/3-1.htm">Isaiah 3:1</a></b></br> 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,</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/9-20.htm">Isaiah 9:20</a></b></br> 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:</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/leviticus/25-49.htm">Able</a> <a href="/exodus/38-21.htm">Amounts</a> <a href="/leviticus/24-5.htm">Bake</a> <a href="/leviticus/23-17.htm">Baked</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-5.htm">Bread</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-15.htm">Break</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-25.htm">Breaking</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-13.htm">Broke</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-19.htm">Broken</a> <a href="/leviticus/11-35.htm">Cooking</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-22.htm">Cut</a> <a href="/exodus/23-31.htm">Deliver</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/13-3.htm">Dole</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-16.htm">Eat</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-22.htm">Eaten</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-10.htm">Food</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-46.htm">Life</a> <a href="/exodus/30-24.htm">Measured</a> <a href="/leviticus/11-35.htm">Oven</a> <a href="/ezekiel/4-16.htm">Rationed</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-19.htm">Satisfied</a> <a href="/exodus/21-20.htm">Staff</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-10.htm">Supply</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-8.htm">Ten</a> <a href="/leviticus/19-35.htm">Weight</a> <a href="/leviticus/21-7.htm">Women</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/leviticus/26-37.htm">Able</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/17-17.htm">Amounts</a> <a href="/1_samuel/28-24.htm">Bake</a> <a href="/numbers/11-8.htm">Baked</a> <a href="/numbers/4-7.htm">Bread</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-44.htm">Break</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-44.htm">Breaking</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/9-17.htm">Broke</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-30.htm">Broken</a> <a href="/2_samuel/13-8.htm">Cooking</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-30.htm">Cut</a> <a href="/numbers/21-2.htm">Deliver</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/13-3.htm">Dole</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-38.htm">Eat</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-29.htm">Eaten</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-29.htm">Food</a> <a href="/numbers/22-30.htm">Life</a> <a href="/ruth/3-15.htm">Measured</a> <a href="/psalms/21-9.htm">Oven</a> <a href="/ezekiel/4-16.htm">Rationed</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/6-11.htm">Satisfied</a> <a href="/leviticus/27-32.htm">Staff</a> <a href="/numbers/4-9.htm">Supply</a> <a href="/leviticus/27-5.htm">Ten</a> <a href="/numbers/7-13.htm">Weight</a> <a href="/numbers/25-1.htm">Women</a><div class="vheading2">Leviticus 26</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/leviticus/26-1.htm">Of idolatry</a></span><br><span class="reftext">2. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/leviticus/26-2.htm">Reverence</a></span><br><span class="reftext">3. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/leviticus/26-3.htm">A blessing to those who keep the commandments</a></span><br><span class="reftext">14. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/leviticus/26-14.htm">A curse to those who break them</a></span><br><span class="reftext">40. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/leviticus/26-40.htm">God promises to remember those who repent</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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Bread, a staple in ancient Israel, symbolizes basic provision and life. The cutting off of bread supply reflects a covenant curse (<a href="/deuteronomy/28-48.htm">Deuteronomy 28:48</a>) and serves as a reminder of Israel's dependence on God for their daily needs, echoing the Lord's Prayer in <a href="/matthew/6-11.htm">Matthew 6:11</a>, "Give us this day our daily bread."<p><b>ten women will bake your bread in a single oven</b><br>This imagery suggests scarcity and rationing. In ancient times, bread was typically baked in communal ovens, but the mention of ten women using a single oven highlights extreme shortage. It reflects a situation where resources are so limited that many must share what little is available. This scarcity is a direct result of the people's failure to uphold the covenant, as seen in the blessings and curses outlined in <a href="/leviticus/26.htm">Leviticus 26</a> and <a href="/deuteronomy/28.htm">Deuteronomy 28</a>.<p><b>and dole out your bread by weight</b><br>Bread being measured by weight indicates severe rationing, a sign of famine and distress. This practice contrasts with times of abundance when bread would be freely available. The careful measurement underscores the dire circumstances and the people's need to rely on God's provision. This rationing is reminiscent of the famine in Egypt during Joseph's time (<a href="/genesis/41-54.htm">Genesis 41:54-57</a>), where food was distributed carefully to ensure survival.<p><b>so that you will eat but not be satisfied</b><br>This phrase conveys the futility and dissatisfaction that comes from disobedience to God. Despite eating, the people will not find fulfillment or nourishment, symbolizing spiritual emptiness and the consequences of turning away from God. This lack of satisfaction is echoed in <a href="/haggai/1-6.htm">Haggai 1:6</a>, where the people sow much but harvest little, eat but never have enough, drink but never have their fill, wear clothes but are not warm, and earn wages only to put them in a purse with holes. It points to the deeper spiritual truth that true satisfaction comes only from a right relationship with God, as Jesus declares in <a href="/john/6-35.htm">John 6:35</a>, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty."<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/g/god.htm">God (Yahweh)</a></b><br>The speaker of the warning, emphasizing His sovereignty and the consequences of disobedience.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/i/israelites.htm">Israelites</a></b><br>The recipients of the message, God's chosen people, who are being warned about the consequences of their potential disobedience.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/b/bread.htm">Bread</a></b><br>A staple food representing sustenance and provision, symbolizing God's provision and the lack thereof as a consequence of disobedience.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/o/oven.htm">Oven</a></b><br>Represents scarcity, as ten women using a single oven indicates a severe shortage of resources.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/c/covenant.htm">Covenant</a></b><br>The broader context of <a href="/bsb/leviticus/26.htm">Leviticus 26</a>, which outlines the blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience under the Mosaic Covenant.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/c/consequences_of_disobedience.htm">Consequences of Disobedience</a></b><br>God's warnings are serious, and disobedience leads to tangible consequences, such as scarcity and dissatisfaction.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/d/dependence_on_god.htm">Dependence on God</a></b><br>True satisfaction comes from God alone. Physical provisions are insufficient without spiritual nourishment.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/community_impact.htm">Community Impact</a></b><br>Disobedience affects the entire community, as seen in the shared scarcity of resources.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/covenant_faithfulness.htm">Covenant Faithfulness</a></b><br>The importance of remaining faithful to God's covenant is underscored by the blessings and curses outlined in Leviticus.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/spiritual_hunger.htm">Spiritual Hunger</a></b><br>Reflect on areas of spiritual hunger in your life and seek fulfillment in Christ, the Bread of Life.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_leviticus_26.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Leviticus 26</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/who_are_the_four_horsemen.htm">Who are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/can_women_teach_in_church.htm">Can women teach in church? (1 Timothy 2:12 vs. Acts 18:26)</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_do_bread_and_wine's_miracles_fit_science.htm">In Matthew 26:26-29, how can the supernatural implications of the bread and wine be reconciled with scientific understanding of physical substances?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/who_was_high_priest_when_david_ate_bread.htm">Who was high priest when David went into the House of GOD and ate the consecrated bread? Abiathar (Mark 2:26) Ahimelech, the father of Abiathar (I Samuel 1:1; 22:20)</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/leviticus/26.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(26)<span class= "bld">And when I have broken the staff of your bread.</span>--Better, <span class= "ital">when I break you the staff of bread, </span>that is, when God cuts off their supply of bread, which is the staff of life. "To break the staff of bread" denotes to take away or to destroy the staff or the support which bread is to man. This metaphor also occurs in other parts of Scripture (<a href="/isaiah/3-1.htm" title="For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, does take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.">Isaiah 3:1</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/4-16.htm" title="Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:">Ezekiel 4:16</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/5-16.htm" title="When I shall send on them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread:">Ezekiel 5:16</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/14-13.htm" title="Son of man, when the land sins against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out my hand on it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine on it, and will cut off man and beast from it:">Ezekiel 14:13</a>; <a href="/psalms/105-16.htm" title="Moreover he called for a famine on the land: he broke the whole staff of bread.">Psalm 105:16</a>). This, in addition to the pestilence in the cities, which will drive them to deliver themselves up to the enemy, or rather the cause of this pestilence will be the famine which will rage in the town whither they fled for protection.<p><span class= "bld">Ten women shall bake your bread in one oven.</span>--Better, <span class= "ital">then ten women, </span>&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. . . . <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/leviticus/26-26.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">When I cut off</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּשִׁבְרִ֣י</span> <span class="translit">(bə·šiḇ·rî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7665.htm">Strong's 7665: </a> </span><span class="str2">To break, break in pieces</span><br /><br /><span class="word">your supply</span><br /><span class="heb">מַטֵּה־</span> <span class="translit">(maṭ·ṭêh-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4294.htm">Strong's 4294: </a> </span><span class="str2">A staff, rod, shaft, branch, a tribe</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of bread,</span><br /><span class="heb">לֶחֶם֒</span> <span class="translit">(le·ḥem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3899.htm">Strong's 3899: </a> </span><span class="str2">Food, bread, grain</span><br /><br /><span class="word">ten</span><br /><span class="heb">עֶ֣שֶׂר</span> <span class="translit">(‘e·śer)</span><br /><span class="parse">Number - feminine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6235.htm">Strong's 6235: </a> </span><span class="str2">Ten</span><br /><br /><span class="word">women</span><br /><span class="heb">נָשִׁ֤ים</span> <span class="translit">(nā·šîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_802.htm">Strong's 802: </a> </span><span class="str2">Woman, wife, female</span><br /><br /><span class="word">will bake</span><br /><span class="heb">וְ֠אָפוּ</span> <span class="translit">(wə·’ā·p̄ū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_644.htm">Strong's 644: </a> </span><span class="str2">To cook, to bake</span><br /><br /><span class="word">your bread</span><br /><span class="heb">לַחְמְכֶם֙</span> <span class="translit">(laḥ·mə·ḵem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3899.htm">Strong's 3899: </a> </span><span class="str2">Food, bread, grain</span><br /><br /><span class="word">in a single</span><br /><span class="heb">אֶחָ֔ד</span> <span class="translit">(’e·ḥāḏ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Number - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_259.htm">Strong's 259: </a> </span><span class="str2">United, one, first</span><br /><br /><span class="word">oven</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּתַנּ֣וּר</span> <span class="translit">(bə·ṯan·nūr)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8574.htm">Strong's 8574: </a> </span><span class="str2">(portable) stove, firepot</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and dole out</span><br /><span class="heb">וְהֵשִׁ֥יבוּ</span> <span class="translit">(wə·hê·šî·ḇū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7725.htm">Strong's 7725: </a> </span><span class="str2">To turn back, in, to retreat, again</span><br /><br /><span class="word">your bread</span><br /><span class="heb">לַחְמְכֶ֖ם</span> <span class="translit">(laḥ·mə·ḵem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3899.htm">Strong's 3899: </a> </span><span class="str2">Food, bread, grain</span><br /><br /><span class="word">by weight,</span><br /><span class="heb">בַּמִּשְׁקָ֑ל</span> <span class="translit">(bam·miš·qāl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4948.htm">Strong's 4948: </a> </span><span class="str2">Weight, weighing</span><br /><br /><span class="word">so that you will eat</span><br /><span class="heb">וַאֲכַלְתֶּ֖ם</span> <span class="translit">(wa·’ă·ḵal·tem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_398.htm">Strong's 398: </a> </span><span class="str2">To eat</span><br /><br /><span class="word">but not</span><br /><span class="heb">וְלֹ֥א</span> <span class="translit">(wə·lō)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> </span><span class="str2">Not, no</span><br /><br /><span class="word">be satisfied.</span><br /><span class="heb">תִשְׂבָּֽעוּ׃</span> <span class="translit">(ṯiś·bā·‘ū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7646.htm">Strong's 7646: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be sated, satisfied or surfeited</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/leviticus/26-26.htm">Leviticus 26:26 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/leviticus/26-26.htm">Leviticus 26:26 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/leviticus/26-26.htm">Leviticus 26:26 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/leviticus/26-26.htm">Leviticus 26:26 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/leviticus/26-26.htm">Leviticus 26:26 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/leviticus/26-26.htm">Leviticus 26:26 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/leviticus/26-26.htm">Leviticus 26:26 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/leviticus/26-26.htm">Leviticus 26:26 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/leviticus/26-26.htm">Leviticus 26:26 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/leviticus/26-26.htm">Leviticus 26:26 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/leviticus/26-26.htm">OT Law: Leviticus 26:26 When I break your staff of bread (Le Lv Lev.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/leviticus/26-25.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Leviticus 26:25"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Leviticus 26:25" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/leviticus/26-27.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Leviticus 26:27"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Leviticus 26:27" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>