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Then I heard something like a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart[a] of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius—but do no harm to the oil and wine!”[b]

When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the fourth living creature saying, “Come!” Behold, I saw a horse, pale greenish gray. The name of the one riding on it was Death, and Sheol was following with him. Authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill by sword and by famine and by plague and by the wild beasts of the earth.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 6:6 Lit. choenix; a day’s measure of grain, about a quart.
  2. Revelation 6:6 cf. Ezek. 4:16.
  3. Revelation 6:8 cf. Jer. 15:2-3, 6-7; 29:17-19; Ezek. 5:17; 14:21.