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)

The Third Seal

⁵ 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)

⁶ 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)

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)

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