10 The food you eat each day will weigh eight ounces;[a] you will eat it at set times.[b] 11 You will also drink a ration of water, a sixth of a gallon,[c] which you will drink at set times. 12 You will eat it as you would a barley cake and bake it over dried human excrement in their sight.” 13 The Lord said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their bread—ceremonially unclean—among the nations where I will banish them.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 4:10 Lit 20 shekels
  2. 4:10 Lit from time to time, also in v. 11
  3. 4:11 Lit hin

10 Weigh out twenty shekels[a](A) of food to eat each day and eat it at set times. 11 Also measure out a sixth of a hin[b] of water and drink it at set times.(B) 12 Eat the food as you would a loaf of barley bread; bake it in the sight of the people, using human excrement(C) for fuel.” 13 The Lord said, “In this way the people of Israel will eat defiled food among the nations where I will drive them.”(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 4:10 That is, about 8 ounces or about 230 grams
  2. Ezekiel 4:11 That is, about 2/3 quart or about 0.6 liter

11 Look, the days are coming—
this is the declaration of the Lord God
when I will send a famine through the land:
not a famine of bread or a thirst for water,
but of hearing the words of the Lord.(A)

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11 “The days are coming,”(A) declares the Sovereign Lord,
    “when I will send a famine through the land—
not a famine of food or a thirst for water,
    but a famine(B) of hearing the words of the Lord.(C)

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The Third Seal

When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” And I looked, and there was a black horse.(A) Its rider held a set of scales in his hand.(B)

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When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature(A) say, “Come!” I looked, and there before me was a black horse!(B) Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand.

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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)

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Footnotes

  1. 6:6 A denarius = one day’s wage

Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures,(A) saying, “Two pounds[a] of wheat for a day’s wages,[b] and six pounds[c] of barley for a day’s wages,[d](B) and do not damage(C) the oil and the wine!”

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 6:6 Or about 1 kilogram
  2. Revelation 6:6 Greek a denarius
  3. Revelation 6:6 Or about 3 kilograms
  4. Revelation 6:6 Greek a denarius

16 And it makes everyone—small and great, rich and poor, free and slave—to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead,(A)

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16 It also forced all people, great and small,(A) rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads,(B)

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17 so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark: the beast’s name or the number of its name.

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17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark,(A) which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.(B)

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