You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin. From time to time you shall drink.
Parallel translations
- KJV Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
- BSB You are also to measure out a sixth of a hin of water to drink, and you are to drink it at set times.
- NKJV You shall also drink water by measure, one-sixth of a hin; from time to time you shall drink.
- NASB The water you drink shall be a sixth of a hin by measure; you shall drink it from time to time.
- NLT Then measure out a jar of water for each day, and drink it at set times.
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Cross-references · 3
- Isa 5:13Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.
- John 3:34For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.
- Ezek 4:16Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay;
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