Yehezkiel 4:10

4:10 The food you eat will be eight ounces ¹  a day by weight; you must eat it at fixed ²  times.

Yehezkiel 27:25

27:25 The ships of Tarshish ³  were the transports for your merchandise.

“‘So you were filled and weighed down in the heart of the seas.

[4:10]  ¹ sn Eight ounces (Heb “twenty shekels”). The standards for weighing money varied considerably in the ancient Near East, but the generally accepted weight for the shekel is 11.5 grams (0.4 ounce). This makes the weight of grain about 230 grams here (8 ounces).

[4:10]  ² tn Heb “from time to time.”

[27:25]  ³ tn Or perhaps “Large merchant ships.” The expression “ships of Tarshish” may describe a class of vessel, that is, large oceangoing merchant ships.