Bible Verses About Weights: Provisions were sold by, in times of scarcity

I will cut off your supply of bread, so that ten women will bake your bread in one oven and dole out your bread by weight, and you will eat but not be satisfied.

Each day the food you eat must weigh only three-quarters of a pound; you may eat it from time to time [during the day].

He then said to me, "Human being, I am going to cut off the supply of bread in Yerushalayim, so that they will anxiously weigh out bread to eat, and, horrified, ration water to drink.