Leviticus 26:26
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
26 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;(A) and though you eat, you shall not be satisfied.
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Ezekiel 4:16
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16 Then he said to me: Son of man, I am about to break the staff of bread[a] in Jerusalem so they shall eat bread which they have weighed out anxiously and drink water which they have measured out fearfully.(A)
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