Verse 26
26. The staff of bread Bread is called “the staff of life,” because it is man’s chief sustenance. By famine this staff is broken.
Ten women… one oven The oven which commonly was sufficient for the use of one woman will hold the diminutive loaves of ten.
By weight So severe shall be the famine that wretchedly small rations shall be weighed out by the ounce. Hunger shall be aggravated and shall not be satisfied. In the siege of Jerusalem by the Romans many of the rich sold all they had for one measure of wheat, and the poor gave all their possessions for a measure of barley. Then shutting themselves up in the inmost rooms of their house they ate it, some without grinding, others made bread, and snatched it out of the fire half-baked, in their haste to banish the gnawings of hunger. Children pulled the morsels that their fathers were eating out of their very mouths, and so did the mothers to their infants.
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