John Gill Commentary Ezekiel 4:10

"And thy food which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it." — Ezekiel 4:10 (ASV)

And your meat which you shall eat [shall be] by weight, twenty
shekels a day
To eat bread by weight was a sign of a grievous famine; see (Leviticus 26:26); a shekel, according to Josephus ^F9, weighed four Attic drachms, or half an ounce, therefore twenty shekels weighed ten ounces; so that the bread the prophet had to eat was but ten ounces a day: from time to time shall you eat it;
at the certain time of eating, or but once a day; from a set time in one day to the same in another; as from morning to morning, or from noon to noon, or from evening to evening; see (Jeremiah 37:21).

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FOOTNOTES:

• F9: Antiqu. l. 3. c. 8. sect. 2.