Then I heard something like a voice among the four living creatures say, “A quart of wheat for a denarius,[a] and three quarts of barley for a denarius,(A) but do not harm the oil and the wine.”(B)

The Fourth Seal

When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!” And I looked, and there was a pale green[b] horse. Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following after him.(C) They were[c] given authority(D) over a fourth of the earth, to kill by the sword, by famine, by plague, and by the wild animals of the earth.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 6:6 A denarius = one day’s wage
  2. 6:8 Or a greenish gray
  3. 6:8 Other mss read He was

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