⁵⁴ and the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in every land, but in the whole land of Egypt there was food.

²⁶ 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.^(A)

¹⁶ He said to me, ‘Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem.^(A) They will anxiously eat food they have weighed out and in dread drink rationed water^(B)