Matthew Poole and continuators on Leviticus 26:26

26 And when I have broken the staff of your bread , ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight : and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.

Either 1. by taking away that power and vertue of nourishing which I have put into bread or food, which when I withdraw, it will be unable to nourish. Or rather 2. by sending a famine or scarcity of bread, which is the staffe and support of mans present life, Psal. 104. 15. for so this phrase is commonly used and elsewhere explained, as Psal. 105. 16. Ezek. 4. 16. and so the following words expound it here.

(i. e.) Ten or many families, for the women took care for the bread and food of all the family.

This is a sign and consequence both of a famine, and of the baking of the bread of several families together in one oven, wherein each family took care to weigh their bread and to receive the same proportion which they put in. Compare Ezek. 4. 1[illegible: 1+ letters].

Marginal references: Isa. 3. 1. Ezek. 5. 16. and 14. 13.; Micah 6. 14. H[illegible: 1+ letters]g. 1. 6.