‘Ten Women Baking Bread in One Oven’

ONE of the calamities to come upon Israel for unfaithfulness is set forth at Leviticus 26:26 in these words: “Ten women will then actually bake your bread in but one oven.” Under normal conditions, each woman would need an oven for doing the necessary baking. However, the words of Leviticus 26:26 pointed to the time when there would be so little food available that one oven would be sufficient to handle all the baking that 10 women could do.