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. Berean Literal Bible In My breaking your⁺ staff of bread, then 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. 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. Berean Annotated Bible When I cut off your⁺ supply \staff/ 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. 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. 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. Majority Text Translations Majority Standard BibleWhen 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. 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. Berean Literal Bible In My breaking your⁺ staff of bread, then 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. 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 When I cut off your supply of bread, Psalm 105:16 He called down famine on the land and cut off all their supplies of food. 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, Ezekiel 5:16 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. ten women will bake your bread in a single oven Ezekiel 4:12-13 And you shall eat the food as you would a barley cake, after you bake it over dried human excrement in the sight of the people.” / Then the LORD said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their defiled bread among the nations to which I will banish them.” Lamentations 5:10 Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger. 1 Kings 17:12-13 But she replied, “As surely as the LORD your God lives, I have no bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. Look, I am gathering a couple of sticks to take home and prepare a meal for myself and my son, so that we may eat it and die.” / “Do not be afraid,” Elijah said to her. “Go and do as you have said. But first make me a small cake of bread from what you have, and bring it out to me. Afterward, make some for yourself and your son, and dole out your bread by weight, Ezekiel 4:16 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. Ezekiel 4:10-11 You are to weigh out twenty shekels of food to eat each day, and you are to eat it at set times. / You are also to measure out a sixth of a hin of water to drink, and you are to drink it at set times. 2 Kings 6:25 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. so that you will eat but not be satisfied. 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. Haggai 1:6 You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.” Ecclesiastes 6:7 All a man’s labor is for his mouth, yet his appetite is never satisfied. 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. 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. … 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.’ 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 indicates a divine judgment where God withholds sustenance as a consequence of disobedience. Bread, a staple in ancient Israel, symbolizes basic provision and life. The cutting off of bread supply reflects a covenant curse (Deuteronomy 28:48) and serves as a reminder of Israel's dependence on God for their daily needs, echoing the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6:11, "Give us this day our daily 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 Persons / Places / Events 1. God (Yahweh)The speaker of the warning, emphasizing His sovereignty and the consequences of disobedience. 2. Israelites The recipients of the message, God's chosen people, who are being warned about the consequences of their potential disobedience. 3. Bread A staple food representing sustenance and provision, symbolizing God's provision and the lack thereof as a consequence of disobedience. 4. Oven Represents scarcity, as ten women using a single oven indicates a severe shortage of resources. 5. Covenant The broader context of Leviticus 26, which outlines the blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience under the Mosaic Covenant. Teaching Points Consequences of DisobedienceGod's warnings are serious, and disobedience leads to tangible consequences, such as scarcity and dissatisfaction. Dependence on God True satisfaction comes from God alone. Physical provisions are insufficient without spiritual nourishment. Community Impact Disobedience affects the entire community, as seen in the shared scarcity of resources. Covenant Faithfulness The importance of remaining faithful to God's covenant is underscored by the blessings and curses outlined in Leviticus. Spiritual Hunger Reflect on areas of spiritual hunger in your life and seek fulfillment in Christ, the Bread of Life. Bible Study Questions and Answers 1. What is the meaning of Leviticus 26:26?2. How does Leviticus 26:26 illustrate consequences of disobedience to God's commands? 3. What does "ten women will bake your bread" signify about scarcity and judgment? 4. How can we apply the lessons of Leviticus 26:26 to modern Christian life? 5. What connections exist between Leviticus 26:26 and God's covenant promises in Deuteronomy? 6. How does understanding Leviticus 26:26 deepen our reliance on God's provision today? 7. How does Leviticus 26:26 reflect God's judgment and mercy in times of disobedience? 8. What historical context influenced the message of Leviticus 26:26? 9. How does Leviticus 26:26 relate to the concept of divine punishment? 10. What are the top 10 Lessons from Leviticus 26? 11. Who are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? 12. Can women teach in church? (1 Timothy 2:12 vs. Acts 18:26) 13. In Matthew 26:26-29, how can the supernatural implications of the bread and wine be reconciled with scientific understanding of physical substances? 14. 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) What Does Leviticus 26:26 Mean When I cut off your supply of bread“When I cut off your supply of bread” (Leviticus 26:26) sets the stage for divine judgment. God Himself is the One who withholds daily provision, underlining that blessings and necessities ultimately come from Him (Deuteronomy 8:3; Psalm 104:14-15). The withholding of bread was specifically promised as a covenant consequence if Israel rejected God’s statutes (Leviticus 26:14-20). Similar warnings appear in Isaiah 3:1 where “the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to take from Jerusalem… the whole supply of bread,” showing that national sin brings tangible, measurable loss. • Bread represents basic life and security; losing it points to life unraveling at its most fundamental level. • The action is purposeful, not accidental—He “cuts off,” emphasizing God’s active role in discipline. • The verse highlights that physical scarcity is meant to turn hearts back to the Provider (2 Chronicles 7:13-14). Ten women will bake your bread in a single oven Having “ten women” use one oven pictures widespread scarcity. In normal times each household would have its own supply, but famine forces many families to share minimal resources (2 Kings 6:25). • The number ten evokes completeness; all of society is affected. • One oven, not ten, underscores a drastic reduction in fuel, grain, and manpower. • The scene echoes God’s earlier promise of abundance in the land (Leviticus 26:5), highlighting the contrast between obedience and disobedience. And dole out your bread by weight When food is weighed, it is strictly rationed (Ezekiel 4:16-17: “They will eat bread by weight and in anxiety”). Free, generous sharing has vanished; survival hinges on fractions and measures. • Rationing testifies that even the little remaining is divinely controlled. • Counting every ounce shows how sin reverses God’s desire for overflowing provision (Malachi 3:10). • This mirrors the warning in Lamentations 5:6 that people would trade cherished things just to stay alive. So that you will eat but not be satisfied The ultimate consequence is persistent emptiness: “you will eat but not be satisfied.” Physical hunger mirrors spiritual barrenness (Micah 6:14; Haggai 1:6). • Satisfaction, a gift God delights to give (Psalm 107:9), is withheld. • Eating without fulfillment frustrates every effort to find peace apart from obedience. • The phrase anticipates later covenant language where Jesus offers Himself as the only Bread that truly satisfies (John 6:35). summary Leviticus 26:26 paints a vivid progression of covenant discipline: God curtails the staple of life, scarcity spreads, rationing dominates, and emptiness remains. Each step urges Israel—and us—to remember that real security and satisfaction flow from wholehearted obedience to the Lord who provides bread and life itself. (26)And when I have broken the staff of your bread.--Better, when I break you the staff of bread, 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 (Isaiah 3:1; Ezekiel 4:16; Ezekiel 5:16; Ezekiel 14:13; Psalm 105:16). 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.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.) |
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